Ramaswami: The expenditure budget for last year presented in this budget reveals how the BJP government passed on the whole mess on to the people. Remember: people across the country were already reeling under massive unemployment, price rise, loss of existing jobs, and cuts in income as a result of the slowdown. In such a dire crisis, not only were they expecting a strong move from the BJP government to provide some relief, but increasing government spending would have also been a good way of tackling the crisis.