Comments by "M Shastri" (@libshastra) on "Will make Uttarakhand global spiritual capital: Arvind Kejriwal in Haridwar" video.

Today's lesson from Prof Kegriwal is about: How to take money away from governance and divert it to freebies during elections.
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@HarshitASrivastava6410 if freebies gave us prosperity then we would have been $10 trillion dollar economy in the 90s. Instead we have been eating into our road, railways development budget, our education budget, our healthcare budget etc. while trying to fulfill freebies promises. You choose. Do you want infrastructure that helps you succeed in life or freebies that keeps you poor in mind and malnourished in body? So choose wisely. Also, do think about the reputation of "the spiritual center of the world" that survives on freebies while neglecting even basic governance. I grew up listening to the Beatles vividly describing the how much poverty, misery from poverty and garbage they had to wade through to reach the Guru they were looking for. I do not look forward to listening to such descriptions and I want development.
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@NewDawn-India huh, well that explains his 6 crore net worth for someone that earns less than the average salary in NCR and with an expensive 3 crore house in Delhi. Surely, he earned that while being CM, right? Him and corruption free? It's nonsense. The dude has his hands in contractors around NCR and earns nice dividends from contracts contracted out to them. I dunno, which world you live in, but that's structural corruption. Also, AAP got 37 crores of donations in 19-20 and their total income jumped from 193 cr to 400 cr - doubled and also exactly 400 cr in expenses? daal main kuch kala hai. I don't buy that they are corruption free, just like how I don't believe BJP is corruption free. But unlike the AAP, BJP at least delivers something.
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