Taxing
Today, is the day we met Tsunami an year back, It just strikes me, what will happen if the world is destroyed at this moment. No I dont want to go into the details of destructions et al. I just wanted to stretch it out. If the world is destroyed today and the archealogists unearth our lands after some 5000 years, Can they judge that a civilisation existed here, a city existed here.
I have my doubts. If the roads and drainage systems are any indication for a city, the archealogists will not be able to imagine good old chennai as a city. Leaving aside the judgement of the future generations, and living in the present wat do we have. Bumpy Roads ahead can be a caption at the entrance of this city (I wud call it a city as Iam used to doing so).
Someone quipped, why dont u get a bike or car, I said who needs those in these roads. In a public bus, atleast the effects of the bumpy roads will be shared by many people, but in a bike, the sum total effect will entirely be on us. So, better I share the burdens of my roads with my fellow brothers and sisters (Not all) of chennai.
This is not just an issue about roads. They can always say, Rains have damaged the roads. But I find the ECR road and the Road along Marina beach to be gud. The rest, I doubt if they ever laid roads. The issue here is about the total negligence for the common man.
When I say common man, the communists might immediately say, the ones in slums, the labors. Unluckily, me and many others like me, the middle class are not part of the common man slogan. And who are we. We are the ones who pay the taxes or whose taxes are snatched away from our salaries and we get the remaining. We are the ones whose blood is sucked by the business big bosses, the Government et al. We are the ones who spare our one day, one month Salary For Tsunami Relief, For Flood havoc, For kargil Relief. We are the ones who invest in insurance and mutual funds to evade tax and end up paying more tax when we get the returns.
But We are n't common men folks. No government cares for job opportunities, infrastructure, educational system. They care about "Meals for Education" schemes. They care for slum relief. They care for the big business houses. They dont care for the normal middle class guy who works 12 hours a day and ends up losing it all in all scandulous investments. Not even the media, even they dont speak about our plights. We are the generation of men and women, who dump our nation and leave for other places for earning opportunities. To them we are traitors. They care for this middle class when a girl is raped and killed, only when a glaring issue occurs.
I love my nation the most. There is a neccessity for me to reiterate this at this point. Iam blaming the things here, not because I dislike these, but because I care for these. Iam ready to pay the taxes and Iam paying them. Iam ready to give for all relief measures, Iam ready to involve myself also. Iam not asking for returns. I am self sufficient. I dont ask anything from the government. But I dont want them to take away my money and give us under prepared roads, and a poor water and drainage system. There should be some responsibility on these folks who manage these. They should be answerable. I dont want to see my courts spending time on cases pertaining to pre marital sex. there are an hell a lot of important matters concerning the common man. Turn your attention to these, rather than thinking about what names films should bear. That is the least I can ask for.
I have my doubts. If the roads and drainage systems are any indication for a city, the archealogists will not be able to imagine good old chennai as a city. Leaving aside the judgement of the future generations, and living in the present wat do we have. Bumpy Roads ahead can be a caption at the entrance of this city (I wud call it a city as Iam used to doing so).
Someone quipped, why dont u get a bike or car, I said who needs those in these roads. In a public bus, atleast the effects of the bumpy roads will be shared by many people, but in a bike, the sum total effect will entirely be on us. So, better I share the burdens of my roads with my fellow brothers and sisters (Not all) of chennai.
This is not just an issue about roads. They can always say, Rains have damaged the roads. But I find the ECR road and the Road along Marina beach to be gud. The rest, I doubt if they ever laid roads. The issue here is about the total negligence for the common man.
When I say common man, the communists might immediately say, the ones in slums, the labors. Unluckily, me and many others like me, the middle class are not part of the common man slogan. And who are we. We are the ones who pay the taxes or whose taxes are snatched away from our salaries and we get the remaining. We are the ones whose blood is sucked by the business big bosses, the Government et al. We are the ones who spare our one day, one month Salary For Tsunami Relief, For Flood havoc, For kargil Relief. We are the ones who invest in insurance and mutual funds to evade tax and end up paying more tax when we get the returns.
But We are n't common men folks. No government cares for job opportunities, infrastructure, educational system. They care about "Meals for Education" schemes. They care for slum relief. They care for the big business houses. They dont care for the normal middle class guy who works 12 hours a day and ends up losing it all in all scandulous investments. Not even the media, even they dont speak about our plights. We are the generation of men and women, who dump our nation and leave for other places for earning opportunities. To them we are traitors. They care for this middle class when a girl is raped and killed, only when a glaring issue occurs.
I love my nation the most. There is a neccessity for me to reiterate this at this point. Iam blaming the things here, not because I dislike these, but because I care for these. Iam ready to pay the taxes and Iam paying them. Iam ready to give for all relief measures, Iam ready to involve myself also. Iam not asking for returns. I am self sufficient. I dont ask anything from the government. But I dont want them to take away my money and give us under prepared roads, and a poor water and drainage system. There should be some responsibility on these folks who manage these. They should be answerable. I dont want to see my courts spending time on cases pertaining to pre marital sex. there are an hell a lot of important matters concerning the common man. Turn your attention to these, rather than thinking about what names films should bear. That is the least I can ask for.
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