{"id":17141,"date":"2012-07-14T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=17141"},"modified":"2012-07-14T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T00:08:00","slug":"92-indian-know-their-government-has-messed-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2012\/07\/92-indian-know-their-government-has-messed-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"92% Indian know their Government has messed the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_17143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17143\" style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17143\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com.S3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/Common_man1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"400\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burdened Common Man<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Whatever the ministers may keep saying about the economy and washing their hands off of the mess that the Indian economy has become now, but the common man in India knows the truth!<\/p>\n<p>Pew Research has\u00a0some <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/92-Indians-blame-govt-for-economic-problems-Survey\/articleshow\/14868891.cms\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">interesting survey<\/a> results from India.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all \u2013 a <strong>staggering 92%<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0the Indians today feel that their economic problems are because of their Government.\u00a0 A small number \u2013 17% \u2013 also believe that banks and financial institutions are to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Some more interesting results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Percentage of people who were satisfied with the direction of the country has fallen from 51% to 38% in just one year.\u00a0 This probably means that Team Anna and Baba Ramdev\u2019s agitations have at least impacted 13% of the people to change their view about the coming danger.<\/li>\n<li>While every one from the erstwhile Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to the PM and economist, Dr. Singh keep painting the rosy picture; the Indians\u2019 \u201ccrowd-sourced\u201d figure of the growth rate for 2012 is <strong>6.9<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0four main reasons for erasing the confidence of the prople in the UPA led Government are: <em>Slow pace of reforms, huge fiscal deficit, rising inflation, corruption and a falling rupee<\/em><\/li>\n<li>People in the other emerging countries [China (83 per cent), Germany (73%), Brazil (65%) and Turkey (57%)] do believe that the current economic conditions are good in their country.<\/li>\n<li>In fact they are optimistic that future will be good.\u00a0 Brazilians (84%), Chinese (83%) and Tunisians (75%) and relatively optimistic Americans (52%), Mexicans (51%) and Egyptians (50%).\u00a0 Only <em>45%<\/em> Indian believe so.<\/li>\n<li>People who are the most angry against their Governments, bring Indians very close to the Pakistanis right now.\u00a0 Here are the infamous countries: Pakistanis (95% blame the government as a primary or secondary culprit), Indians (92%), the Mexicans (91%), the Japanese (91%), the Czechs (91%) and the Poles (90%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What this poll shows is that the Indians are extremely angry against their Government.\u00a0 In many ways, ordinary Indian can cut through the chase and get to the core issues facing everyone.\u00a0 For, they have done a rather good job.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever the ministers may keep saying about the economy and washing their hands off of the mess that the Indian economy has become now, but the common man in India knows the truth! 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