> If GOI cannot
re-engineer thusly with its bigger resource base, I
doubt it will ever come to such a pass in a free Assam
with a proportionately much lower resource base and a
long line of "extractors" of very doubtful track
records already waiting to appropriate resources.
*** Is this some kind of an irrefutable or unchangeable natural
law :-)? What does RESOURCE have to do with the ability to re-engineer
a state's governance?
India is incapable because of its deeply fractured polity, and
its behemoth-like size.
But Assam, in spite of its diversity, is a far more manageable
entity, that can and will close ranks behind an
enlightened agenda. The 'andwlon' was a good example
that it could be done. Unfortunately the 'andwlon' leadership had a
divisive agenda, was uneducated about how to form a government and
reform it to move forward. They young folks thought that changing of
the guard was enough to take them to the promised land. It was a
profoundly faulty perception as it proved to be in very short
order.
At 7:11 AM -0700 8/26/06, Rajib Das wrote:
This is where it turns to the realm of the
non-existent.
> *** An Assam that is free to re-engineer its
> governance with tools to
> exact accountability and set up deterrence against
> non-performance,
> can immediately turn things around on this front.
An Assam will never be free to re-engineer from the
ground up in as much as GOI is not. Everything
extracts a price. The revolution that will supposedly
foster in a free Assam will extract a price. Those
that support the revolution (and I don't mean what I
think are the non-existent toiling masses) will
extract a price. Those who will need to switch over
from their current political cocoons to help the
revolution foster the "freeness" will extract a price.
There would be too much of the extraction going by the
track record of the "extractors".
>
> A governmental bureaucracy that is not sustained by
> a treasury that
> steals from those who PRODUCE and re-distributes to
> the
> non-performers in the form of life time employment
> regardless of
> productivity would immediately react to the fact
> their "xaandoh-khwa
> baali tol-jowa" ( the demise of the golden goose)
> situation.
> All of a sudden the bloated and un-productive
> bureaucracy will be a
> thing of the past.
Is that a mission statement of free Assam or
Chandanda's free wish? If all that is there in free
Assam, I doubt it will ever happen. If GOI cannot
re-engineer thusly with its bigger resource base, I
doubt it will ever come to such a pass in a free Assam
with a proportionately much lower resource base and a
long line of "extractors" of very doubtful track
records already waiting to appropriate resources.
> Ensuing social turmoil?
>
> Some of it is bound to happen. Everything has a
price.
I am sure Manmohan Singh must also be sitting in his
high chair, wishing he could re-engineer the
government and throw out government employees and
wishing away the "ensuing social turmoil" with the
flick of a hand. Unfortunately I am sure he
understands that social turmoil would devour him.
And no, the case would not be any different in a free
Assam.
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