Cavalcade of America, starring Kenny Delmar in the homecoming of Sue Chan, presented by the DuPont Company, makers of better things for better living through chemistry. Good evening and welcome to Cavalcade. This is Bill Hamilton. One of the DuPont Company's better things for better living through chemistry is nylon. And I'd like to take just a moment to tell you briefly about an extra tough job that nylon does. In the oil fields of Louisiana, there is a trucking company that makes a specialty of hauling the giant tools used in drilling oil wells. It's all in the day's work for this He-Man outfit to haul a 19-ton drag line shovel a couple of hundred miles over rough shell roads. The hauling is done on an underslung trailer called a low-boy. But this low-boy has no springs. Its tires must take the gouging, bruising impact of tons of dead weight at every bump and jolt of the road. But the four rear tires of this giant low-boy have now traveled more than 75,000 miles. 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So I asked policeman, What? Talk English. Well, you know, speak it Chinese. It is not very successful conversation. Policeman finally grabbed me by arm and pulled me along street. I think, oh boy, I'm pinched. But he only take me to nearest Chinese laundry, where laundry man named Afeni Hen told me how to find my cousin, Pinchan. Pinchan has good-looking restaurant, and I am very pleased when I walk in and ask waiter for him. We speak in Chinese, naturally, but this is what it sound like to me. A capable waiter, is this the establishment of the illustrious Pinchan? It is.  Oh, please be so kind as to conduct this unworthy person to Pinchan. I am his cousin. What is so fun making? Impossible. You are his cousin. I am Chan and Pinchan's cousin. Chan may have many cousins. A dog has more than one flea. I do not like your comparisons. You are no cousin to Pinchan. Oh, I am. Let me see Pinchan. No, no, no, get out. I will not. I must see Pinchan. Pinchan, who calls my name? This rustic say he is our cousin. It is true, Anat Sir. My father is the son of Jinshin, who is the cousin of your more than Anat Uncle for Thrimu. He could be inventing this. Tom Chan here is anxious to be my only relative. He counts the dishes every night, figuring how much he may inherit. I try only to protect Pinchan from wiles of strangers. How do we know he tell the truth? Do you, boy? I have here a letter for the Honorable Pinchan. Let me see it. Did your father write this letter, boy? He dictated it, Anat Sir. I wrote it down. Father is a farmer. He does not write. How is it that you write, boy? When I was ten, I was climbing for a bird's nest. I fell out of tree and for two years could not work. So father sent me to the village school. Oh, and why have you come to me? I hope perhaps the Honorable Pinchan may have some small bit of work for his unworthy cousin. Times are hard, home, and I am very anxious to take some American dollars back to China. I suppose they told you at home that here these streets were paved with gold? I did not see any such street coming from the boat, Anat Sir. I will work very hard, Cousin Pinchan. For me, you will have to. Welcome to America, Cousin Su. Cousin Pinchan is very kind to me. He give me job as dishwash man at $65 every month. Only bad feature. I'm terribly homesick. I miss my father and mother and brothers like anything. Even when I wash my dishes, I think about them. One day I hear boat whistle outside in harbor. By the way, I have daydream. I am going back to China. Pretty soon, I think I walk in street of my own village. Then everybody in town come running and shouting. It's Su Chang! Little Su Chang of Amazon. Everybody, Su Chang go to America. Make a million dollars, American money. They start following after me. Pretty soon we are having fine parade. Everybody march along with me out to my father's farm. I see my father plowing. My two brothers are pulling the plow. They look up to see who all the people are. Father, it is Su. Honorable father, I have made a million dollars, American money. I'm going to buy you an ox for your plow. You are a good son. Now I go all alone to find my mother. She is washing clothing in stream near our house. She look very tired and old. I say, hello mother. She do not say anything. She only look at me and she don't believe what she see. Then she hug me and start to cry. Mother, I have a million dollars, American money right in my pocket. I'm going to hire servant for you. Not only that, but I brought you some wonderful warm wool for dress. Yes, and whole carton of American soap and boxes and boxes of American candy. Nothing is too fine for the honorable mother of Su Chang, the millionaire. Then I unfortunately knock over a big stack of dishes. And that is all the daydream I have that day. What was that crash? Ah, cousin Su broke some more dishes, I see. Pin Chan will take those out of your salary. And Pin Chan did. And I begin to see it are not so easy to become millionaire, even in America. Now for two, three years I work hard at Pin Chan's place. Always I got only one idea, making up money to go back home. Pretty soon I have five hundred and five dollars in savings bank. Then I don't come Chinese New Year. My cousin Tom and I wonder what we buy for cousin Pin for New Year gift. I think I will get him rattlesnake wine.  Well, what of it? Cousin Pin, he like rattlesnake wine. He say it very beneficial. Well, if you wish, give him that then. I like something different this time. Something elegant, but inexpensive. Tom, Su, go quickly. It is cousin Pin. Oh, what's wrong, cousin? Are you really? One does not call a doctor to print a house. Oh, I have a pain in my stomach like it rats snoring there. Is it really bad? Oh, do you think I would pay Lee Su's exorbitant prices if I were not in agony? Call him, call him. Oh, yes, yes, I will, cousin, I will. Is the place where I press sore on itself?  It is your appendix, Pin-chan. Oh, what can you prescribe for appendix? The rattlesnake wine does not help. It is with this taste. I tell you that we must operate, Pin-chan. How much will this cutting cost? I think it's necessary we get the most superior surgeon possible. The one I recommend will charge you probably five hundred dollars. Five hundred dollars? I will not do it. I will cure myself with rattlesnake wine. An operation is your only hope, Pin-chan. Never, never, five hundred, never. Then, then there is nothing I can do for you. Oh, cousin, certainly your honorable person is worth five hundred dollars. No, cousin Su, no, no. Oh, we beg you, cousin Pin, have this operation.  Doctor, is there no suitable operating man who would do this cutting for less money? None that I would recommend for anyone in your cousins' conditions are. Then I can see only one thing to do. Cousin Pin, if you will deign to accept it a few days early, I should like to present to you as my new year's gift, this fine, expensive cutting. So, Doctor, take away Pin-chan's appendix and my five hundred dollars. That leaves me exactly five bucks in bank. But operation turned out down good investment for me, as Pin-chan teaches me how to cook. Pretty soon I could cook, no kidding. Make more money than waiter. But year or two later, Pin-chan close up restaurant. No job. To become millionaire and go home to China, seem as far off as ever. But I try everything to make a buck. 1931, I cook in state of Washington, lumber camp. Come on, get him. Come on, get him. 1933, I a houseboy to rich man in Denver, Colorado. Su, my shirt. Here, your dress shirt, sir, studs and cuff-rings in. In 1935, I sell firecrackers in Louisville, Kentucky. Oh, these firecrackers are an unbelievable bargain, sir. In 1936, I even sell Chinese people red-o-snakes for red-o-snake wine. What a racket they make. You know, sell for one dollar foot, make fifty cents a foot profit. By year, 1939, I have a wide experience in American business and got forty-eight hundred bucks in savings bank. I am thirty years old now, and I figure if Sue ever going to be rich man, Sue better get going. I work in New York City now in laundry supply business. One day, I walk by Chinese restaurant on 7th Avenue, sign on front say, place go out of business. Next thing I know, I'm at a bank who own building. I'm sorry, Mr. Chan, but I don't see how the bank can help you out. Oh, all I want, Mr. Livingston, is lease on restaurant and small loan from bank. You need a good size loan, Mr. Chan. The equipment in the place alone will cost you about ten thousand dollars, and you have only about five. Oh, can raise other five from Chinese friend. But you're bound to have heavy losses at first. Ah, sure. That's why I want loan from bank. Oh, pardon me, Mr. Chan. Hello. Oh, hello, dear. No, we can't postpone the dinner. You know how important this is for me. Well, tell the employment agency they've got to get you a cook today. Well, then call another agency. Well, somebody must have a cook. We're getting back to you, Mr. Chan. The bank can't take a chance on this loan. Oh, I have the best security for restaurant in whole world. Really? What's that? My cooking. You have a taste. You know what I mean. I'm sure you know your business, Mr. Chan. You like Chinese cooking? Very much. But the bank could hardly grant a loan on that. I'm sorry. Now, goodbye, Mr. Chan. Yes, excuse me, Mr. Livingston. I'll hear your conversation with the wife. You need cook. I'll get you best cook in United States for tonight. You can. Me, Su Chan. I'll fix you dinner. Same time, demonstrate personal how it are impossible I'd be failure in restaurant business. You see, my cooking 100% security. What glorious food, Mr. Livingston. The finest Chinese meal I've ever had.  Yes, but I'm afraid we're losing him. What? Mr. Chan is opening up his own restaurant. You are listening to the Cavalcade of America, presented by the depart company, makers of better things for better living through chemistry. Tonight in our play, The Homecoming of Su Chan, our star is Kenny Delmar. As Su Chan, a Chinese immigrant, he's telling the story of how he made his way in America. So I get a loan from bank and very quick open up restaurant. Business slow at first, but keep getting a little better every day. So I feel everything will be all right. Then I got new problem. Big problem. Got to have advice. Best food in New York you have here, Su. Happy you like it, Mr. Livingston. Mind if I sit down one minute, got the problem. By all means, Su. What's the trouble? My mother in China have a school teacher, right? Give me letter. Well, that's fine. No, no. Mother say I am causing Chan family to lose much face. You? How can she say that? Well, my mother, she say I'm getting to be old man of 30 and still not married. She want me to get married right away before it is too late. Chinese people marry very young. Is there any particular young lady your mother wants for you, Su? No, no, no, no, no, no. She want me to go to marriage broker like most Chinese people. What you think I ought to do, Mr. Livingston? Aside from what your mother thinks, do you want to get married? Oh, like idea of marriage, fine. Only marriage broker woman pain in neck. Oh, you've talked with one already? All she want to do, want to show me picture of girl. I don't want to get married from picture. That's the Chinese custom, isn't it? Yeah, but we in America now. Well, there must be Chinese in this country with a more modern point of view. Yeah, yeah, but I don't want any too modern. One Chinese girl raised right. But to Donut, I want to meet her before get married. You certainly have got a big problem, Su. Finally, marriage broker woman come to me and tell me about family in Boston who have marriageable daughter who sound like excellent wife for me. And, Mr. Chan, this lovely girl's name is Viola Eng. Oh, Viola, can it be arranged I meet the young lady before I make my decision? Miss Eng feels exactly as you do in this matter, Mr. Chan. She desires to meet you before making up her mind. Good. I'll go to Boston as soon as you can make arrangement. You will be permitted 10 minutes with Mr. and Mrs. Eng. If they approve of you, on the next day, there will be further interview of 10 minutes with Miss Eng and mother. Yes. Can I see her along at all? On the third day, if Miss Eng desire it, you may speak to her privately at her home for six minutes. Six minutes. The Eng you see are somewhat modern. I hope she looks as nice as her picture. Very pretty. It would be most desirable match on both sides, especially as Mr. and Mrs. Eng, because of your otherwise excellent qualifications, are willing to overlook your rather advanced age. So, I go to Boston and everything come out even better than I dreamed for. And before I know it, I'm a happy married man. It's good thing to have wife to share life with. Only thing wrong is, all of a sudden, what I have to share, mostly with Viola, is trouble. Customers like food, but not enough come. We lose money. A whole lot of money. The bank doesn't like to be unreasonable, Mr. Chan, but aside from your note, there's a matter of three months back rent. I'm afraid if you can't pay us something soon, say, $1,500, we'll have no choice but to look for another tenant for the property. Hard pay, somehow. Well, hear your change. Call again. Thank you. Aye, certainly well. That's a good meal. Hello, Sue. Oh, hello, Mr. Riley. Think you'd lost me? I've been on the road with the show. Yes, sir. Your French tell me. Oh, Sue, there's a little matter of $38. I owe you for some meals. Here it is, and thanks for carrying me when I needed it. A pleasure to do it, Mr. Riley. I don't know if you realize how nice you are to people, Sue. All the regulars here feel it. It isn't that you let me run up a tab. It's the way you made me feel about it. As if you knew what it was like to be down on your luck sometimes yourself. Nobody luck you always. Yeah, yeah. Why the sigh? Well, I and Doghouse with Bank. What? I thought business was picking up okay. Oh, picking up, getting okay, okay, better, but oh, so much money. If I could hang on a month or two more, I think would be all right. Are you really in a jam? Gotta have $1,500 by tomorrow or lose the restaurant. Gosh, I wish there was something I could do. But I never even saw $1,500. Well, good night. Yeah, good night, Harry. Early next morning was sitting in office when waiter come in. Boss, Mr. Riley and some men once see you in office. Or tell them to come in. All right, all right. Mr. Riley. Good morning, Sue. Oh, good morning, Bill. Hello, Homer. Hello, Mo. Are you too often? We're a committee come to make a complaint. Oh, what you mean? Sue, we can't have this place closing up. That's right. Where else could we run tabs up and make free phone calls? Yes, we decided something had to be done about it. We got hold of as many of your regular customers as we could to see how many of them would let you run a little tab on them for a while. Oh, yes. I don't understand. Here, Sue, here's the $1,500 you need. Oh. You see, us guys, and about 15 more, the names and how much they shelled out for down here on this paper. Anyway, it adds up to $1,500 cash money. That's what you needed, wasn't it? $1,500? Go ahead. Take it, Sue. It's real. I... See... For God's sakes, it's nothing to ball about, Sue. It's only money. Only money, no. What we call in China, lucky money. It wasn't lucky money, too. Almost right away, business gets better. Pretty soon, it's very good, and I'm out of woods. In a couple of years, I have paid off debts, own a whole place, and have good profit for myself. Also, I am father of a fine baby boy named in English, Stanry, in Chinese, Su Chu, which mean intelligent little sailboat. Then there's Papa. Then the little bear say, somebody been sleeping in my bed, and here she is. And what did Goldilocks do? Then Goldilocks ran home. Papa can't, Stanley. Not when the book says Goldilocks ran home. Oh, oh. Hello. Sue? Oh, hello, Mr. Livingston. Still keen on going back to China when you've made your pile, Sue? Oh, boy. Well, on your restaurant now, I can get you a dandy. Oh, you mean sell it? Sell what, Sue? At the restaurant. I can get you an excellent price for your restaurant, Sue. Oh, that's wonderful, Mr. Livingston. Come in tomorrow. That's wonderful, Sue. Oh, Mr. Livingston, get us big money for a restaurant.  Oh, yes. Live like a millionaire. Sue, why have you that funny look on your face? I try to think about home. Can I remember much? I keep thinking of a portrait and being a dishwash ball for my cousin and learning English. The first time I depart at Silver Dollar in Bank. I think of friends I make in this country, the work and trouble I have with restaurant and how friends help me out of trouble. These are things I think of, not the China. You don't have to sell the restaurant, Sue. We don't have to go back. I know, I know. But for so many years, I keep thinking all I want is to go back to China. Now I don't know. Don't you want to go home, Sue? Oh, sure, sure. But joke's on me. For years, right here in America, I've been home. Fowler, we are home. Now Kenny Delmar, not as Senator Claghorn nor Boris Stroganoff of the Fred Allen show, not even as Sue Chan of Cavalcade, but as himself, a former Cavalcade player returning as star of tonight's show. Kenny Delmar. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. If you enjoyed tonight's Cavalcade play about Sue Chan, I think you'll enjoy even more meeting Mr. Chan himself, and here he is in person, Sue Chan. Thank you, thank you very much, everybody. It's a wonderful thing to have one's life story, especially when life is not finished. That way it has real suspense. Sue, what did you think of the way I played you, Sue? It was fine, Kenny, but only once or twice I was bothered with your accent.  Too much accent. I couldn't understand you. Pardon me, Sue. There's someone out there who wants to see you, says he's a friend of yours. Who's that, that? Well, he also says he's one of your good customers. Well, I better see him, Sue, only in radio once, like going and going in restaurant business for a long time. Oh, here he is now. Hello, Sue. Hello, Kenny. Oh, Fred. Fred. Yeah, Fred Allen. Fred, did you have my program? Yes, it was fine, Sue, but I wish you'd get back to your restaurant. If I get you away, I can't get a table over there. Well, I understand Chan has quite a following of theatrical and radio people, Fred. They're quite clannish. Oh, yes, Kenny. You know, there's a rumor around that once a week, the mice, all of the mice at Lindy's go over to the house of Chan for Chinese food. There's a mouse over there who eats with chopsticks. Here's a what-a-smart mouse, too. Chinese food tastes better that way. Well, you know, Sue, every time I try chopsticks, I realize why Chinese people are so thin. You can't pick up any food with those things. Oh, you're wrong there, Fred. But, you know, when I first come to America, I had a lot of trouble with knife and fork, but okay now. You're all right now. Sue, do you realize that we've been friends for more than 10 years? I know, Fred. It is a wonderful, how many friends I've made in this country. When I arrive here, the first thing I want to do is learn English. I'm ashamed to go to public school, first grade, with little kids. So, finally, I met a retired school teacher who, by the name of Mrs. Ephemio Dimmick, a wonderful person. She taught me English for $5 a month. She taught me how friendly American people are. The very first word she taught me was hello. Well, it must be tough learning English when you're growing up, Sue. I had trouble enough as a child. I couldn't speak a word when I came here. By the way, where do your folks come from, Fred? Ireland. I was born in Boston to save the fair.  Greece. Fred, Iris, Kenny, Greek, Sue, Chinese, all here in America together. What do they mean by, United Nations won't work? Well, you're right, Sue. My father always said that we had quite a country here. No place else in the world like it. When I was born in China, we called this country Gumsun, which means Golden Mountain. Not gold meaning just money, but wonderful things, chance for free school, opportunity for jobs, and most of all, chance to be free, man-owned boss, not only for myself, but for my son Stanley and my daughter Barry. Such chance only happened in Gumsun in America. A very great thanks to you, Fred Allen, for coming to Cavalcade tonight with your friend Sue Chan, who, like so many others, made the American dream come true. Tonight, our original play, The Homecoming of Sue Chan, was written by Frank Gabrielson. Music was composed by Arden Cornwell, conducted by Donald Brian. The program is directed by John Zoller. This is Ted Pearson speaking. As tonight's Cavalcade curtain falls, we're going on vacation. We'll be back in the fall, and we hope you'll be listening then. Thanks for tuning us in these Monday evenings, and thanks too for the letters you've written us. You found our plays enjoyable and our stores of chemistry interesting. So until we return to the air in the fall, this is Bill Hamilton speaking for the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. Makers of better things for better living through chemistry. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.


Hello, and let's talk about the supposed festival bonanza for government employees. Yesterday, newspapers were widely celebrating this so-called bonanza announced by the government for its employees. According to these papers, nearly 31 lakh non-gazeted government and public undertaking staff were to get a festival bonus that amounted to rupees 3,737 crore. Now the bulk of this amount that's 2,791 crore is for nearly 16.97 lakh employees of institutions like the railways and the postal services, while the rest will go for nearly 13.7 lakh employees of the central government. This announcement seems pretty impressive on the face of it, until you go into the fine print of course, and then you realize that there is nothing unique or special but this is something given every year. Similarly, last week, finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman made announcements regarding a leave travel cash voucher and a festival advance for central government employees. Again, there is much behind the obvious in these announcements. We talked to journalist Orindya Chakravarty to find out what is behind these announcements. Thank you Orindya for joining us. So yesterday we saw newspapers, especially the financial newspapers declared a bonanza and that was a word almost universally used among all the media organizations and we had complaints. We've talked about all this while the government refusing to spend money to stimulate demand and it's been this thing and the media seems to embrace that narrative saying how the government has done this. If you go a bit into the fine print, was this exactly such a big or significant announcement? It actually tells you about two things. One is that it's possible that our news media editors and journalists are complicit. They want to sell everything as a great big achievement of the government. It is a possibility. I'm not discounting that. We know that happens. But I think there's also basic illiteracy here. They don't even do a Google search to find out a basic thing. Is it paid every year?  This is paid every year. In fact, this year it is delayed. It has been delayed this year. Railway employees have been getting this performance link bonus and non PLB which is for non gazetted officers from all kinds of, they've been getting it since 1979, 1980. There is nothing new in it. In 2017, 18, 19, they were given 2044 crore just railway employees. I think they were about 11 lakh out of the 30.6 lakh that we're talking about who were given 2044 crore. Now add up all the others and I'm sure it'll come right to that same number. Maybe a little bit increased because of inflation, but otherwise it's broadly the same amount which was given last year, which is budgeted for because broadly it would be budgeted for because bonuses have to be given. They are given. It's part of the deal of the jobs that have been given to people, whether it's in coal mines, whether it is in other places, bonuses are paid. It is part of the budgeting exercise itself. At least a band would have to be cleared for those payments to take place. Which is why every year, if you do a Google search, you'll find it for every single year around this time, before the Shaira, before Diwali, before Durga Puja, bonuses are paid. The cabinet approves a certain amount. Usually it is 72 to 78 days. That is what has been done again this year. And our newspapers make that the front headline. They will not tell you Prashant and that I'm sure that you are aware of that but really the employees were threatening to go on strike. They were going to go on strike from yesterday and they've now withheld that strike. They're not going because the bonus has been announced because it was delayed. That particular news item was probably hidden in one of the inside pages of their own papers. Maybe some PTI news which was put in there to fill a small block which was an ad didn't come in or a classified didn't come in. So they look for something and put that in. So yesterday I tweeted that if only they read their own papers, they would realize that it's not new. Exactly. So that's what I'm saying. I mean, it's amazing that they should be passed off as a fiscal. Bonanza. Bonanza. Right. It's basically more or less like saying that salaries are coming around the first spot. Yeah, it's exactly. It's like saying that every time someone, if you pay the person who comes to wash the dishes in your house, their salary, they should be very grateful and say, thank you so much. You have given me such a big gift. It's like that. I mean, it's a joke. Exactly. Right. And in this context, I also want to talk about two announcements. Finance Minister Dharvanasitaraman made last week, which again were kind of quite celebrated. One was regarding a leave travel cash voucher and the other was regarding a festival advance. So could you first maybe talk about the leave, the LTA system itself? Again, I guess it's also interesting because for most people in the private sector, there's no real concept of, at least for many people, there's no concept of this thing. So it seems like something very innovative. So, you know, my parents were university teachers. So we got LTC and there was also something else called home travel allowance, where people could visit their home. It was assumed that they've come to Delhi or some city to work and you got a train fare, the entire family got back and forth. So in a four year chunk, you got to take HTA and LTA. Now, so LTA was something that you do when you took a holiday. And because of LTA, actually people have traveled, government employees have traveled across India, they've taken train trips, traveled to different parts of India, seen things across India. And this is actually one of the, I would say, one of the social initiatives of the government to encourage people to know their own country, take holidays. And now LTA can be taken, I think in four, there are four year cycle in which it is announced. So there's a 2018 to 2021 cycle right now. If you don't take it, it lapses. This is sort of clarifying by LTA, you mean that when you go and leave your tickets are paid for by the government. And that particular expenditure, because ultimately it is part of, it's something that you want, right? Yeah. That particular expenditure, you get a tax rebate on that. Now, most corporate organizations also give you an LTA. For instance, where I work, I had an LTA. If I did not take it, it came into my salary, but I had to pay full tax on it. If I could give tickets and say this is where I've traveled and say that this is the time when I took leave, I took leave and these are the tickets that I spent on, that particular amount of expenditure would become tax exempt. So that would go into the tax exempt category. So that is actually available to private employees as well. Now, the point is that the government is saying, okay, this year because of COVID, maybe people are not being able to travel and their money will lapse, right? So on the face of it, this is, and therefore instead of that, we're going to give them, let them encash it. They could take that amount which they would have spent on a ticket, they'll get that money. And also if they're taking a 15 day leave that they're now going to not go to take it. If they don't take it, they can encash that leave. A lot of private companies don't have this leave encashment system which tell you you have to take leave. A lot of private companies do have a leave encashment. Now the government also is saying, okay, you can encash that leave, take that amount and this is yours and it will also be tax free. There's still some issue about whether it can, it will be tax exempt. The interesting thing is Prashan, on the face of it, when I first saw it, I said, okay, good. The government is doing, you know, it might still be part of the budgetary process itself because ultimately governments probably, all government departments estimate how many people are likely to take and that's part of the money they want to be budgeted for there. Now, the issue is that the government is saying, no, you have to pay, spend three times that amount to get the money. So if you were traveling to, let's say Kerala from Delhi back and forth and you get, I think, AC2 tier tickets, let's say that for the family, the total return would come to, I don't know, let's say 20,000 rupees. You'd be able to tell me better about that.  So 30,000 rupees is the amount that you would be available to you in LTA. I'm taking a large amount. You would have to pay, spend 90,000 rupees to take advantage of that 30,000 rupees. Why would you do it? Right. Only if you were already planning to buy a lot of things, right? Only if you're planning to buy a car or a big LCD LED TV, which costs a lot of money or the latest refrigerator, where I don't know if it was a 90,000 rupees refrigerator, but even if someone was going to spend 15,000 rupees, they would still have to pay, spend 45,000 rupees to be able to buy, take advantage of this thing. So therefore, this essentially is telling people, we are going to give one-third the amount, which was already you were going to get. You can take it in 2021 also. But here, take this one-third, spend three times. Who is it going to benefit? Prashant, that's the question I would like to ask you. Who benefits from this extra spending? So when we are looking, it would probably be, say, the very organized sector, maybe the biggest corporates because that amount of expenditure is important. Because there is also one more caveat. I mean, it's not even that you can say that, okay, I'm going to get my house painted by the local painter. No. The caveat is that everything you spend has to be spent on things which spend, which pay at least 12% GST. So 12%, 18%. Now, we know that very small entrepreneurs are exempt from GST registration, right? If they have a 40 lakh turnover in a year, they don't have to register for GST. Right. And that means that anything that you buy from the smallest of entrepreneurs cannot be done using this particular money that has been given to you. This can only be spent largely on what we call white goods or consumer durable, right? This is what you spend on. Provide the GST bill who gains from it, as you said. Big corporates. Big corporates and big service providers, they are the people who gain. They are the people who are going to benefit from a one-third stimulus being given by the government of what people were going to get in any case. Absolutely. And what about the advances? That's also a similar attempt. I mean, I have a driver who I constantly have to give advances to and usually he never pays it back. So effectively it becomes an additional bonus for it. But the advances that you pay, what is an advance? It is something that you're going to earn over the next few months, which you're taking in advance. Now, your employer is going to say, when you take it in advance, you're effectively gaining because there's an interest loss that I have. If I had put that money in a bank, in a savings account, I would have got three, three and a half percent interest. And that to you in advance, for one year or let's say six months, I'm losing interest for six months. What is the government losing by giving 10,000 rupees advance or maximum 10,000 rupees advance? It is in an annual cycle. It is losing three, three and a half percent. In fact, Prashant, if government employees had to spend their own money, which is in the bank to buy something for the festival season, they are effectively losing three percent interest with the savings account. That means 300 rupees. So what is the government giving you in that advance? The advance that the government is giving you, spending that the government is doing on you, the additional amount the government is giving is 300 rupees. 300, 350 rupees.  So it is saying, here is a stimulus of this much. Please spend 33 times that much to make use of it. So this is the greatest stimulus package possible, a multiplier effect of 30 to 33 times of things which you've already budgeted. Which you've already budgeted. So it clearly seems that all these announcements fit into a pattern which the government has been doing for many years. The first repackage, whatever you already have, launch out a major publicity campaign. And in the end, actually do not end up really spending too much. The second thing with the COVID-19 stimulus package as well, which was tom-tom to the skies and nothing happened. And the total amount was way less. Absolutely. In fact, you can see that the government is still, is still going on about giving monetary stimulus, telling RBI to spend more. I think Shakti Kanthadasa said that the worst is over, except that he said 9.5% contraction.  There seems to be a concentrated effort. Ever since the IMF came up with this thing that India's GDP is going to contract.  I think there's been a concentrated effort to create a feel-good package. There's nothing wrong in that as long as you are also really spending. When it is just empty, essentially giving the same money which you've already budgeted, but you decided not to spend. There's another big story today in one of the pink papers saying government asks, says, departments can spend their budget. It's something like that.  You're saying don't spend because of COVID, right? And now you're saying that, okay, go ahead and spend. Yeah. What can you say to that? Absolutely. The only thing you can say is that governments will always spend. That is the job of a government, right? It is with the media to point out that this is not true. The media is not going to do that. Exactly. Well, in this context, I mean, I guess a lot of this really has to do with the question of demand itself, which we have been discussing, the fact that demand has been at historic lows and what needs to be done to kind of push this up. And this context has also been some news about car sales, for instance, picking up mobile phone sales, for instance, picking up. So can these be positive signs of some kind of a recovery? Or is there a story behind that? The story is the same as let's take the mobile sales, the smartphone sales shipment. I think for July to September has been the highest in ever. I think some 50 lakh mobile phone smartphones have been shipped. Many of them in the below 12,000 rupee category. Right. There's a side story here, which is that we are so anti Chinese that the Chinese companies share in the shipment has risen from 74% to 76% in the same July to September. But let's look at the fact that, you know, when we saw mobile phones with everyone, this was seen as a sign of prosperity in India. This is going on for the last 10 years that Indians, everyone uses mobile phones. And it's, they've become so prosperous. The point is this is, has become their office. 50, more than 50% of Indians are self employed. Right. Some of them are agriculture. Okay. Remove that part. But for those who are itinerant workers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, hawkers, they no longer have the local store where they can go and sit or the local market where they can go and work. They are roaming around. They are called on the phone. So it is the office, which is why they found that massive club called the missed call club.  So incoming is free. They don't want to spend. So therefore, I think that when you look at mobile phones, think of the stories anecdotal information we have that people are being forced to sell things to buy smart phones for the children because otherwise the children will not be able to get educated. Classes are being held online. Zoom, Skype, these are the routes through which classes are being held. And for children of the poor are being forced to do it on smart phones. We know what happened in Delhi where there was this girl whose phone was being snatched by two people and she ran after them. They were trying to stab her and she held on to them until she got her phone back. She said, my father bought this phone for my classes. I can't lose it. So to say that this is a sign of great prosperity is, I think, ridiculous. When it comes to cars, let's look at it. One of the things that we are seeing is that, and there's a story in one of the papers today or yesterday about how first time owners have increased dramatically. In the last two, three years, we had been hearing that how people are switching to share rights for all these large aggregators like Ola, Ober, people are using that. And it's true, even someone like me, for some trips, I would say, OK, I'm not going to take my car. I'll do Ola and Ober. It was cheaper because it was being subsidized. Now, you look at it, that has stopped. You can see that even a company like Maruti is worried that the cars that it specifically created for these large aggregators. I think there was something called the desire. I'm forgetting what the name is of a particular model, but it was largely created for these particular, and they're saying that these are not good to sell. So they're worried about that, and they're trying to think how to increase the sales of these particular variants. So we know that part is killed. So people are forced to buy cars because they have, they don't trust public transport. They're not, they're worried that if they take public transport, they'll be exposed to COVID. So they're buying cars. And some of it is replacement demand. Even replacement demand has actually dropped sharply this year. Most of it is first-time buyers who are saying, we have to buy cars because I can't afford to order a bike. And even then, if you look at it, if you look at April to September, there has been a sharp drop in total car sales. There has been a recovery in August and September, and maybe we'll see this recovery continue partly because people need to buy cars because they don't trust public transport and also because they didn't buy it from April to July. Every month, so many cars sell or they didn't sell. I mean, even Maruti's sales are down. If you take from April to September, I think it's down about 35%. Even though in August, September, there's been a gain compared to last year, significant gain in sales. So one has to remember these are all, these are expenditures which are being done per force. They're forced upon people because of the situation they're finding themselves in. And that means, and given today, one of the newspapers has reported that there's been a big recovery in, in, you know, people who are not being paid salaries, there have been salary cuts, but that has now recovered to a large extent. Now, of course, when you always, one of the things that one always has to do is read the fine print and you see that the fine print is essentially a few companies. And then, then it says 70% have got their salaries back. 70% have got part of the, some have got part of their salaries back. So I just did a Twitter poll this morning and it's obviously a very solid sample. It's a self-electing sample. It's not an, but it gives you some idea about what is happening. And I said that if you had a pay cut, this was only for those that pay cut, and there are about 430 votes here. It was a three-hour poll, right? And, and I can guarantee that the newspaper reports did not speak to 430 people. But still, right? I gave four options. Has your salary been fully reinstated? It has been partly reinstated. You're getting more than what you got before COVID because you have to remember that April, May, June is the settlement period. Where people get hikes that did not come. Instead, they got pay cuts and not being reinstated. You're still facing a pay cut. 66% have voted that they have still not been reinstated. Here we saw that 70% of the report tells us 70% reinstated. In my unscientific poll, unscientific self-selecting poll, 66%. Discount that further, make that 40%. Right? But even then, anecdotal evidence tells us that in most places it has not been reinstated. Fully reinstated, only 14%. Partly reinstated, 12%. More than pre-COVID levels, which means salary hike is 8%. 8%. And most of it, I would assume, would have come from the financial sector. And from brokerages and banks, which is what CMI's first amount of data tells us that hikes have actually only taken place in COVID in this period in only these places. Everywhere else, they've been pay cut. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Anandya, for talking to us. We'll keep tracking these issues as they continue to happen and as more such reports keep coming out. Thanks a lot. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back on Monday with more news from India and the world. Until then, keep watching News Click.


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What's everybody just here for Jasper's case breaks calm 2001 sp authentic golf upper-deck SP authentic golf one box break around and pack break number seven just sold out So here you go everybody gets a random pack We're gonna randomize or randomize your names and number the packs one through twenty four And then we'll randomize the names and packs and whatever number you get is what pack a rib open for you remember chase tiger wood rookies Last year 2001 SP authentic rookie out of a hundred PSA tensile for thirty four thousand dollars So you never know be something crazy in here the breaks kids right here Robert This is all we have so far if something else sold out and you don't see it here Then I haven't went through water, so it'll be up there soon. So let's open up the box really quick Randomize the names or sorry number the packs and then we're randomize the name of the packs I believe you get two autographs in SP authentic golf So Chance of some big hits here 8 9 10 11 13 14 16 17 18 9-2... 20... 22... SPL 10? Yeah I know man. It still looks pretty fire for hockey that comes out this week. Alright so there you go. Dice Roller here, Casper Names. So let's roll it. And... 2-0-4 six times. Good luck. 1... 2... 3... four, five, and six. Brian, down to Scott. One, two, three, four, five, and six. Four, down to 23. You got two ball here, the soldiers play. All right, so there you go, the way it came out there. Now I'm going to alphabetize them by customer name, though. So Brian, there's your numbers. Colton, Eric, there's your three numbers. Glenn, Josh, Kenneth, Kevin, Michael, Nicholas, Quinn, Scott, Kay, and Todd. So there you go. So yeah, alphabetize your names, and now let me quickly just download this and create a label. So I think the football mixture's sold out after those two mini breaks? Yeah, because I put another mini break up, but no one's buying into it, so yeah, I took out the six, but it's all good. No, you put it in the six, and then I took it out again. Or you took it out, sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, to what are you being, like, delayed or so, or what, what do you think? Yeah, is it really at five or six right now? But as long as you can just write it. I'm both outside, and there's like, the road is packed. Like, what do you mean? Just like cars? Yeah, yeah. Well, they might just be leaving the word. Yesterday I was going to stop to get food, and McDonald's and all the areas of mine were closed. I was like, dang it. Yeah, Chick-fil-A closed here at four. I mean, as long as I just get like a letter, if you guys just write that out. Yeah. I went next door in front of the vans. There was like a big police car and stuff. No way. You paid for that problem? But I was like, but all their inventory's in there, so I think it's fine down here. Yeah. All right, Brian, so there you go.  You have about six packs. All right, so four. So let's do this. Four, three, nine, 12, 16, and 22. Yeah, for some reason, someone must have bought a spot as we took it out. So it was originally gonna be 10 spots, but now it's gonna be nine, and the 10th person is just gonna get $100 in break credit. Colton, you got one, that'll be 18. I'm just gonna put the little thing on him so that way they match up. And then we'll go Eric with three, 15, one, eight. One and eight. 15, one, eight. Got that there. One with 11. Josh with 19. Kenneth with 20. Yeah, the first one that had 12 spots, yeah, that's sold out. That'll happen for sure. But I'm saying the second we put up, it was supposed to be 10 spots, but someone bought a spot as we took out the 10 to put it into another pack break. So just to keep it the same price and not have to refund people that already bought into that. We just made it nine spots, but the 10th person's gonna get $100 in break credit. So, same thing. Two, 13, and 17. Yeah, so the 12th one is good. Nicholas with 24. Quentin, you have five and 14. Oscar, you got three, seven, 21, 23. And Todd Reardon. You're gonna be number six. Yeah, I mean, it ended up not being a bad deal, right? All right, I'm just gonna grab whichever one, so. Actually, that's going all right, I guess, to be honest. Brian, you're gonna go first then. There you go, here's all your numbers. Four, three, nine, 12, 16, 22. Good luck, Brian. And we got a relic swatches, four swatches of Jesper. Bless you. We might have more, Ryan. I think we have a couple more boxes. All right, so there you go. Just a little relic for you, Brian. There you go, man. Bless you. All right, awesome. Next one up was gonna be Colton with Pac-18. Bless you. Colton Pac-18, there you go, man. Good luck. All right, a little champion focus with Tiger Woods. I'm not sure what the inserts go for, but he's Tiger Woods, so who knows? Maybe pay for like half the pack or something. Maybe pay for the full pack, who knows? There you go, Colton. A little pack there for you. So I don't even think I've printed this out. All right, next one up is Eric K. This is right here, and you have Pac-15, one and eight. One, 15, eight. Good luck, man. Ambassador to the Gulf. Ooh, we got an autograph. And it's Peter Jacobson on card, sign of the times. There's our first auto. Peter Jacobson. Five bucks for the insert. It's not shabby. It's not too bad. Something rather than nothing, right? All right, one of the autographs is gone. All right, next one, Glenn with Pac-11. All right, Glenn, thank you, man. Josh with Pac-19. The pirates were only, ooh. And we got Mark Alvecchia, Alvecchia. There you go. I bought the next golf box. Oh, nice. So there you go, Ryan. Another of the golf boxes up on the website. There was a one-on-one car autograph from Tier One, and they were only $11. Man, what a break. All right, Kenneth with Pac-20 is up next. I'm not sure there's gonna be any more autographs, but who knows? Could be more autos or more relics, maybe. Who knows? But for the most part, there might just be some inserts of Tiger or something coming up. Kevin with Pac-10. Champions, focus, Tiger Woods. Yeah, that Conor McDavid was pretty nice. It's actually both of those crazy hits that me and Joe hit are actually an option. The McDavid, that thing's over $50,000. Michael is up next with two, 13, and 17. 17, 13, two. Tiger Woods, champion, focus. Yeah, I mean, everybody was predicting it to be over 100, so almost halfway there. It's on Leland's options. I think the 50 auto book that's on there, too. Not sure how well that's gonna do, but the auto book is up there. I think it's only at 2,000 right now with like two weeks left as well. I don't know, it was such an amazing hit, but I think a lot of people thought it would go for a lot more than what I think realistically was gonna go for. I think, I'd be happy if it goes for like over 10, but I think it's gonna go under 10. Because if you think about it, I mean, I think we did the value of each sticker auto would be about 300 bucks, so 50 times 300 around there. You're looking at maybe around 5,000 to 6,000, but I think a lot of people got into the customer's head of like, oh, it should go for 50,000, it should go for this, you know, so it's all good though, hopefully it does well though. All right, 24 for Nicholas. Yeah, it was technically a 101, because it was his jersey number. So I think a lot of real big collectors really want that. So we'll see how it does. I'm happy though, it's at 50, I was a little nervous there for a second. Hockey market has kind of dropped a little bit with COVID, so we'll see though, but I still see consistently some RPAs still going for 30, 40,000 normally, so they were in the 50s when I pulled it, so I assume it's just gonna sell pretty well. Yeah, I mean, it's a big risk, and obviously these boxes weren't like $700 back in 2001, but that's just the risk now. It's like prism, basketball, it's like over $1,000, but you probably may only make, you might only make like $100 back, but it's just a risk. All right, Quinn, you got five and 14, so you pretty much gotta hit a tiger to be in the clear. And we got a numbered car to 3,000 pretty much. Tyler, no, thankfully there hasn't been, there's been all around us, but nothing here in Hermosa Beach, just around us in Long Beach and Santa Monica and other beaches, cities, but thankfully here not so much, but we did leave early yesterday due to our county-wide curfew at six, but I think today curfew again is at six, but I think we're gonna be staying till at least eight o'clock to still make eight hours of breaking. I started around 12 today for that same reason, so we should still be live for the next four hours or so. All right, Scott K with 721-23. Yeah, I mean, downtown is pretty crazy, right Tyler? You're watching it on the news right now? I think it was by the pike, Greg. It was by the pike. All that stuff that happened yesterday, which is probably about 15 miles away from here. Santa Monica's like 10. That'd be awesome if it hit 200. I mean, I'd be so happy if it hit 200, but I just wanted to hit the 100,000.  Obviously for hockey, it's more Gretzky and like Crosby stuff, but this last 10 years, definitely that one. Well, Mike David is like a phenom hobby. He's like one of the best players in the NHL. He's supposed to be the great one. And, you know, he's just playing for the right city and the right team. So, it's just, his RPA is like Luka Donchich to us. You know, it's gonna sell for like $40,000. So he's like Zion to hockey. Think about it. And when I pulled that McDavid, it's pretty much the best one you can get. So that's why it sells for a lot. Well, just because it's out of 99 doesn't mean anything. Out of 99 is gonna sell for more than out of 25. Because the 99 is a true RPA in the card world.  All right, there you go guys. This was all the golf box right here. Number seven, number eight's in the store. Jasperyscasebreak.com.


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