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@smerconish President Trump makes his decision with the GUTS but validates with staff around him. Those who disagree get FIRED after sometimes.
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Did you know
Rajiv Gandhi ran away when he was asked to serve during the 1971 Indo-Pak war?
Rajiv Gandhi was a pilot at Indian Airlines
So during 1971 Indo-Pak war, leave applications of all the pilots of Indian Airlines were cancelled
This was because the pilots could be used for providing logistical support
But Rahul Gandhi's father was the only COWARD who got leave
After getting leave, Rajiv Gandhi decided to flee to Italy along with his wife & Rahul Gandhi (who was a kid)
They returned only after General Niazi signed the surrender papers
Yes, in 1971 India's then future Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was hiding like a coward
So RaGa should stop abusing Modiji & start talking about his father's cowardice
Kuch toh sharam karo, Pappu


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Mahatma Gandhi’s "Expensive Poverty."
It signifies "costly poverty" - that is to say, one has to spend a great deal of money just to appear poor.
Gandhiji's poverty was precisely of this nature.
On one occasion, Sarojini Naidu even remarked to him jokingly, "Keeping you poor costs us a fortune."
Why was this so?
Whenever Gandhiji traveled by train in the third class, it was never a standard third - class journey.
The British did not want photographs of Gandhiji traveling amidst squalid conditions and crowds to appear in newspapers, fearing he might gain an advantage by playing the "victim card."
Consequently, whenever he undertook a train journey, he was provided with a special train consisting of just three coaches - reserved exclusively for Gandhiji and his companions - because people would flock to every station to meet him. The entire cost incurred for this arrangement was subsequently reimbursed to the British government by Gandhiji's trust.
It was for this very reason that Mohammed Ali Jinnah once remarked: "Gandhiji travels third class at a cost several times higher than what I spend to travel first class."
Gandhiji had taken a vow to consume only goat's milk.
Goat's milk is expensive even today, and it was equally costly back then. While he could certainly keep goats at his own ashram, Gandhiji was a prolific traveler; it was by no means guaranteed that goat's milk would be readily available everywhere he went.
This very fact is documented in Gandhiji's own writings - describing how, for instance, goat's milk had to be scoured for in London and purchased at exorbitant rates - all because Gandhiji was "poor," and therefore, he would drink nothing but goat's milk.
It is, however, a separate matter - as Khushwant Singh notes in his book - that the goats Gandhiji kept for his milk supply were bathed daily with soap, fed a protein-rich diet, and entailed a daily expenditure of 20 rupees. Ninety years ago, 20 rupees was equivalent to thousands of rupees today. As for his other expenses, Gandhiji used to carry a donation box with him, into which he would request everyone to contribute some amount of money. Furthermore, various industrialists and his friends would provide him with donations. He also had a trust that collected funds in his name.
On his 75th birthday, the goal was to raise 7.5 million rupees in donations; however, the actual collection exceeded 10 million rupees. If compared based on the prevailing price of gold, that sum would amount to 6.5 billion rupees in today's currency.
Gandhi was not quite as impoverished as we have been conditioned - through constant repetition - to believe.

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