{"id":4284,"date":"2009-03-11T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2009-03-11T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T11:35:00","slug":"now-housewives-want-sops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/now-housewives-want-sops\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Housewives Want Sops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is quite the WTF headline of the week:<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/money\/2009\/mar\/09kerala-housewives-demand-pay-from-govt.htm\" title=\"Kerala housewives demand pay from govt\">Kerala housewives demand pay from govt<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Actually wait, on second thoughts, what&#8217;s so WTF about it? Why is this odder than any damn subsidy that the government of India gives? If the GoI can support failing businesses (for by definition only a failing business needs a subsidy), and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haj_subsidy\" title=\"Haj Subsidy -- Wikipedia\">pilgrims headed on pilgrimage<\/a>, and all manners of interest groups, then why not housewives? If you take from Peter to pay Paul, and Prakash, and Pervez, and Pestonjee, then why not also pay Parvati?<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, that&#8217;s our tax money out there, and we&#8217;re all Peter. But we&#8217;re reconciled to that now, and apathetic towards it, so we&#8217;re never going to fight over the way it&#8217;s used. Also, some of us are fighting to be Paul and Prakash and Parvati, so there&#8217;s that. Maybe I should start a movement to subsidize bloggers?<\/p>\n<p>(Link via separate emails from Shyam and <a href=\"http:\/\/whatanewsense.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Vineet\">Vineet<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is quite the WTF headline of the week:<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/money\/2009\/mar\/09kerala-housewives-demand-pay-from-govt.htm\" title=\"Kerala housewives demand pay from govt\">Kerala housewives demand pay from govt<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Actually wait, on second thoughts, what&#8217;s so WTF about it? Why is this odder than any damn subsidy that the government of India gives? If the GoI can support failing businesses (for by definition only a failing business needs a subsidy), and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haj_subsidy\" title=\"Haj Subsidy -- Wikipedia\">pilgrims headed on pilgrimage<\/a>, and all manners of interest groups, then why not housewives? If you take from Peter to pay Paul, and Prakash, and Pervez, and Pestonjee, then why not also pay Parvati?<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, that&#8217;s our tax money out there, and we&#8217;re all Peter. But we&#8217;re reconciled to that now, and apathetic towards it, so we&#8217;re never going to fight over the way it&#8217;s used. Also, some of us are fighting to be Paul and Prakash and Parvati, so there&#8217;s that. Maybe I should start a movement to subsidize bloggers?<\/p>\n<p>(Link via separate emails from Shyam and <a href=\"http:\/\/whatanewsense.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Vineet\">Vineet<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,15,24,4,28,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Now Housewives Want Sops - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/now-housewives-want-sops\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Now Housewives Want Sops - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is quite the WTF headline of the week: Kerala housewives demand pay from govt Actually wait, on second thoughts, what&#8217;s so WTF about it? 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