Budget 2011 is out and it brings to life vying ‘economists’ who are generally bereft of common sense. In the sixties and later, before the budget day there used to be definite “leaks” that cigarettes will be taxed more and nobody was punished for the ‘leaks’! Now it is the season for senior citizens to get sops from govt though their life has become tougher, sulkier, lonlier while the old values just keep mocking at them at social level.
Of late every budget is pregnant with sops to the oldies. While preference in queues and the like are welcome, I, for one, do not understand the financial concessions to them. I am a septuagenarian but I am not speaking for these ‘bracketed’ generation. I do so from the social point of view. I have not been a money spinner in life, no insurance cover, nor any operating bank account. Never the less, or perhaps for the same reason, I don’t understand the financial concessions to them. They at best will show some gains in the books. In a few cases, these concessions will benefit those who have found their parents as useful through books of accounts definitely denying them another chance to be in heaven! Instead of these sops, the government should think of providing district-wise free quarters with geriatic hospital facilities.
In society at large oldies are scoffed at, in business places hated, and in the small precincts of homes a cause of vex. Besides, the oldies are target of house breakers, robbers, heir apparents, pretending heirs. These sops will only worsen the situation. In stead, it will be a great idea to give them physical comforts wherever and every where possible. :frog:
Of late every budget is pregnant with sops to the oldies. While preference in queues and the like are welcome, I, for one, do not understand the financial concessions to them. I am a septuagenarian but I am not speaking for these ‘bracketed’ generation. I do so from the social point of view. I have not been a money spinner in life, no insurance cover, nor any operating bank account. Never the less, or perhaps for the same reason, I don’t understand the financial concessions to them. They at best will show some gains in the books. In a few cases, these concessions will benefit those who have found their parents as useful through books of accounts definitely denying them another chance to be in heaven! Instead of these sops, the government should think of providing district-wise free quarters with geriatic hospital facilities.
In society at large oldies are scoffed at, in business places hated, and in the small precincts of homes a cause of vex. Besides, the oldies are target of house breakers, robbers, heir apparents, pretending heirs. These sops will only worsen the situation. In stead, it will be a great idea to give them physical comforts wherever and every where possible. :frog:
