{"id":62135,"date":"2012-02-15T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T05:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=62135"},"modified":"2012-02-15T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T05:11:04","slug":"time-to-let-the-maharaja-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2012\/02\/15\/time-to-let-the-maharaja-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to let the Maharaja die?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There comes a time in every Government run business where tough choices can no longer be avoided. Has time come to bury Air India? <\/p>\n

Why does a piss poor country like India need a publicly financed airline when there are plenty of private players who are more than capable of filling in?<\/p>\n

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We spend more on keeping Air India alive than we spend on Rural Infrastructure. Where are our priorities?<\/p>\n

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We seem to think that Rs. 22 a day is enough for a person to live in rural India. But nobody questions as to why every Indian is expected to take on Rs. 577 of AI\u2019s debt?<\/p>\n

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Given the succession of scams, it appears that we have developed a high tolerance to our government flushing our tax dollars down the drain. To paraphrase the French: The Maharaja is Dead, Long Live the Maharaja. Shut down Air India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There comes a time in every Government run business where tough choices can no longer be avoided. Has time come to bury Air India? Why does a piss poor country like India need a publicly financed airline when there are plenty of private players who are more than capable of filling in?       … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[804],"class_list":["post-62135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-money","tag-reading","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}