Monday, February 14, 2011

Why I might just prefer to pay a small bribe than a bigger fine ?

We just wondered today, in the midst of so many scams being discovered everyday in India, we may prefer to just a pay a bribe to get our work done, to a common man, than pay a fee or a fine. Why ? When you pay a bribe, it will go to the common man's pocket & he'd do something for his family, however when you pay an official fine or a fee, which supposedly goes to the government, finally ends up in the pockets of corrupt politicians, who don't think twice pocketing the hard earned public money. When asked & proved guilty, they just resign (sometimes not ;-) ) & even the citizens forget the money the corrupt STOLE ! Cough up the money first you #$%@ - you HAVE to resign later cheater #$@%. No wonder why more than 50% Indian population is still poor & many without bare minimum facilities. Were the politicians honest, we wouldn't change the TV channel at the sight of one !
   'Rich getting richer' is an issue if there's black money involved, however I consider 'poor getting poorer' as a negative projection of the country's economic planning & currency routing. If money was channelled properly, India would have been the world's most developed nation in every aspect (not just IT workforce); villages would have ample electricity, water & food; roads would have been far better than any country; people would care for each other; our GDP would have been double or triple of what it's now (ever wonder why you don't care about another person on the road now ? ... because you are preoccupied, frustrated & have suffered enough at the hands of daily shocks given by every scam that takes a big chunk of your own country's hard earned taxpayers money). An astrologer had predicted India to become a superpower in all aspects in 21st century, however he must have had the earlier LEADERS in his mind :-)
   Do you wonder why we use the word 'POLITICIANS' now-a-days, not 'LEADERS' ? It's the subconscious paradigm of the general populace now that the ones THERE only play political games; who's there to LEAD ? I no more prefer to pay official fine if something can be done with a bribe. We no longer want to fill the houses of the ones whose clear intentions are to only STEAL. We don't want those thieves to exist. Long live democracy.
   I'd love to hear my readers' comments.