Some raising the threshold limit of income-tax or some concessions for big industries. These are the things that people watch. The Press plays up these things. This is not the Press's opinion, but the opinion of the people who give their opinions to the Press. So, I am not blaming the Press for it. I am just saying that the people have not understood the import of this Budget. We will have to go to the backdrop on which this Budget was formulated. There is an international financial meltdown. Whether we have been insulated or not, I will come to that point. The Amercian economy has collapsed; the European economy has collapsed. In most other countries, the people of those countries have lost confidence in their banking systems because a Company like Lehman Brothers, which was a very big investment banker and had dealt in billion of dollars had finally wound up. So, the people are worried to keep their money in the banks. But in this country we do not have that problem. It is because Smt. Indira Gandhi, four decades back, had nationalised the banks so that the poor people of this country would get social justice from banks and would be taken care of. We have seen President Obama in America. He has also devised an economic package for revival. Of course, I am not comparing that with this Budget. But when you have to revive an economy, what is the best way? The Government has to spend more money. The Government has to put more money in poor people's hands. If you get more money in poor people's hands, you will get a stimulus because consumption starts. When you give money to a poor man, he immediately goes to buy food for his family. If you give money to a man from the middle-class or a reasonably rich man, he saves it, which also is a good idea.
