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Originally posted by: charminggenie
Great is very subjective , some of his reforms are too far fetched and speculative. Foreign policies - would you please, Mr Bird, introduce his thoughts on Kashmir, Afghan, South Asia and Asean, yet to read a speech about them. When you are at it , where does his personal equation standard wrt to White House stand.For now undoubtedly he is the PM candidate, there is just no opposition to him. As the leader of the next bit National Party, his views are culmination of years of ideology. With no contest in sight, whatever he says is a plus point. And against Rahul led Cong , I will side with him.You mean the Namo and shezada has been devoid of social media pyaar. None of it matters, he is sailing through all the way, thanks to Cong self goal.Oh Mr Birdie, a history lesson gone wrong. Charkha was a thing of 20th century. And 19th was famous for the First War Independence (1857), that gotta be some back-handed compliment to AAP. Mira Sanyal , ex RBS head India, is leading their committee on economic policies. It has enough Wall Street power to keep it away from 1960s debacle. Have faith in fellow bankers, will you, to formulate the basic economic structure of this new and young party?I supported them because they don't have an ideology inked with blood. They are making rookie mistakes in hopes of staying relevant LS polls. I won't judge their integrity or their governance till that point. Especially if you want the voter to overlook the past discretions of the two major National Parties. I like how we have ignored the protests of Shiv Sena, MNS , Telengana party, SP , BSP over the years.Game is simple. NaMo is leading and most prob will form the govt. I am interested in watching who joins his team when the final tally is announced. I would rather see AAP as his main opposition that Rahul who is leading the fall to the doom for Cong. Too much to ask? I just don't understand why is BJP getting so uneasy with that situation? Shouldn't it be happy that with AAP cutting down Cong votes, it's main opposition will loose face in LS polls.
in the ideal world, i would like to see a Modi-led NDA get 300 seats. I could accept an AAP with 242 if they really are that corruption free (and that's questionable imo), and the rest 0. But since that's not happening, i dont want a bunch of AAP clowns that you're asking me to trust to get seats that would deny NDA a ruling majority.
so far, AAP is batting 0 for 3. Leadership requires setting priorities, not acting like chickens with their head cut off chasing the first complaint they get (and i am talking about the midnight cowboy raid). There was so much time and energy expended on that nonsense, and they managed to piss off the African countries. They should have gone after the Vadras of the world, not dilute it by going after the small fish. If you look at the US, they always go after the king pins but these AAP characters are too small-minded to know that.
Then they also got the free water and electricity subsidies wrong. We need to use our resources to create productive capacity, not fritter it away on subsidies that dont help anyone long run. And they got their vote against FDI wrong. We need FDI, not a bunch of bozos who are against. To understand that, just look at free trade zones which do well for the host states and where the deal is not even as good as the one we had gotten from Walmart. China has encouraged the Walmarts of the world and we cant even learn from that?
So what we already see are AAP's socialist leanings. But now you are asking us to place trust on Mira Sanyal. Who the eff is she? She did her MBA from France, a bastion of left-wing welfare spending nuts. People like her come and go on Wall Street. She is also RBS, seems like someone who couldn't do better.
look i was possibly fine with AAP till the point they were talking about corruption. But it gets to be a bit too much to swallow when they try to use their credibility on that plank to now pretend as if they know anything about creating economic prosperity. And they now want to talk down Modi's Gujrat story? I mean where the hell are these fkuckers coming from. Today it's corruption, tomorrow it's economics, theird day it's how the Army effed up.
India is at a precarious position where we cant afford to eff up on economic policies. Corruption costs the country something like 0.5% by economist's estimates. Bad economic policies cost far more. If you cant get the economic policies right, you'll always have poverty. And when you have poor cops and aam admi and judges who dont get paid enough, no kejriwal will get them off corruption. People have to be well off that the economic incentives for corruption are reduced. That of course will not eradicate corruption but it will go a long way in rooting it out from the general populace.
finally, we have a demographic advantage in the fact that our population is young. But that can turn into a nightmare if we dont create jobs and bring in the trillions in foreign investment. We cant afford to experiment while the demographic clock is running and our youth grow older. We have a time window and we just need to grow fast... Else we will have anarchy. No kejriwal or AAP will convince the guy who is starving to not steal or be corrupt or turn maoist if they are not doing well.
as for markets and economy, just think what would happen if a kejriwal comes to power. Markets will tank. Rupee will tank, and that would mean imported inflation. RBI would have to raise rates even more to curtail that inflation, resulting in job losses etc, further losses in tax collection, further deficits and a spiralling of the rupee/ stock market situation...
also, various AAP leaders have made a lot of anti-nationalist statements when it comes to their positions on Kashmir, the Army etc. As for Modi, i think he's more interested in repealing 372 which would be a great thing. I'd also not be bothered about the US. They'll come around if they saw a deal to be had. They've given up on India for now because we havent delivered on FDI and other aspects.
So coming to AAP, we just cant afford to be fiddling around with these sorry bozos. At every critical moment in our nation's history, we have had the jai chands who have come along to confuse/ divide/ obfuscate/ muddy waters. We squandered every good opportunity we had. We cant afford to any more by going with a bunch of green tinpots in AAP. Before they are through, they would have undermined every democratic institution. So if i really wanted to have a guy who'd be a dictator, i'd go for the army, not a kejriwal whose only success in life previously was inspecting taxes!
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