Everything is becoming more expensive. Food, fuel, forgetting your wife's birthday... everything. And everybody has something to say about it. Which is why the Man is sitting quiet today. I'm just going to present a sample of what people are saying about price increase, in an attempt to prove that everyone is crazy. With my comments.
What people are actually saying
CMD of Company XYZ: "The government should attempt to maintain the purchasing power of consumers by keeping a hold on interest rates, taxes and duties".
This is the most general statement ever. It's like saying schools should teach people useful things.
Onion trader: "Small onions are selling like hot cakes. They are a little wet and need to be dried before use".
Do hot cakes really sell? Does one really care if an onion is wet or dry? This quote sounds like b.s. the trader made up while counting the immense amounts of money he had.
The Congress: "Oil companies do need to increase fuel prices, but a Rs. 5 increase in a month does seem a tad unfair.."
That quote could have finished: "...but we aren't going to do anything about it anyway."
Sonia G: "The govt needs to work on inflation".
I am speechless over the sheer amount of insight and new information and awesomeness in that sentence.
The Communists: "If they are not heeding then we will go to the people!"
Last time you went to the people, they didn't really come back to you, did they? Nor did you come back to office.
M. Singh: "We in India are deeply concerned about rising commodity and food prices."
As opposed to the inhabitants of Mars?
The Common Man: "Onions are the source of all my tears. Either their price is low and I cry while cutting them, or their price is so high that it makes me cry."
What people are thankfully not saying
Anyone who isn't bored of Rajinikanth jokes yet: "Rajinikanth made the price of onions come down."
Swiss banker who gave data to Wikileaks: "Why did they jail me? I was only giving them lists of onion traders and crude sellers anyway."
What people are actually saying
CMD of Company XYZ: "The government should attempt to maintain the purchasing power of consumers by keeping a hold on interest rates, taxes and duties".
This is the most general statement ever. It's like saying schools should teach people useful things.
Onion trader: "Small onions are selling like hot cakes. They are a little wet and need to be dried before use".
Do hot cakes really sell? Does one really care if an onion is wet or dry? This quote sounds like b.s. the trader made up while counting the immense amounts of money he had.
The Congress: "Oil companies do need to increase fuel prices, but a Rs. 5 increase in a month does seem a tad unfair.."
That quote could have finished: "...but we aren't going to do anything about it anyway."
Sonia G: "The govt needs to work on inflation".
I am speechless over the sheer amount of insight and new information and awesomeness in that sentence.
The Communists: "If they are not heeding then we will go to the people!"
Last time you went to the people, they didn't really come back to you, did they? Nor did you come back to office.
M. Singh: "We in India are deeply concerned about rising commodity and food prices."
As opposed to the inhabitants of Mars?
The Common Man: "Onions are the source of all my tears. Either their price is low and I cry while cutting them, or their price is so high that it makes me cry."
What people are thankfully not saying
Anyone who isn't bored of Rajinikanth jokes yet: "Rajinikanth made the price of onions come down."
Swiss banker who gave data to Wikileaks: "Why did they jail me? I was only giving them lists of onion traders and crude sellers anyway."
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