Hi Philip and Venatius, After all the latest theories of 'supply and demand' and 'risk management', are we are left with "cant teach an old dog new tricks"? What ever happened to the cave man? My theory on what makes men and women innovative, is what my mother said, "Necessity is the Mother of Invention".
In Europe and the USA, the people in the northern countries / states (having to cope with winter) were a lot more industrious than residents in the southern countries / states. Clearly Mediterranean / Iberian people (as in Goa) born with a roof over their head, a warm sky and bountiful ocean had less of a need to be industrious than a Northerner who has only four months to grow his crop and two months to collect fire-wood every Fall to keep his family warm in the winter. That social / economic practice is gone by the wayside with the government's safety-net and the high taxes to pay for it. Yet the government in Mediterranean countries and Southern states are being innovative. In Goa, whatever one's opinion, tourism and SEZ is presented as an answer. Those who are opposed to these have to be intellectually honest and present economic alternatives. Those Goans who refuse to capitalize on job opportunities have themselves to blame. Due to "supply and demand" in the work place, they will be replaced by those who want to work. The last thing to do practically or intellectually is shield / complain about innovation or competition. And from a modern economic perspective, slow the circulation of money which drives today's economy. After all who are the kharvis, who benefit from the high price of fish? For Goan intellectuals, "the construct" is how to help one (in need) to help themselves (unless they are old or indigent). The first challenge from a Goa perspective is: Getting those that 'need help' and those that 'want to help' on the same wavelength for the progress to be SELF-SUSTAINING. The old saying is, "do not give someone a fish, rather teach them how to fish". And in keeping with that, education is a safe bet to help individual Goans and the society as a whole. Kind Regards, GL -------------------- Philip Thomas there is the old saying "You cant teach an old dog new tricks". What does one do then? -------------------- Venantius Pinto it is about taking pause and seeing that some do not stand a chance. I still am witness to a few who have slipped / are slipping, and have not been able to steer them though I keep trying / and they exceedingly few opportunities. What some of us achieve in two or three steps, it takes those whom I know and help / prod along -- ninety steps, and in the meanwhile they have forgetten the road, or its tuned into a maze for them; when one was not looking. I know these people, and their extenuating existences. In a few hours I am on that Jet airways flight to the Desh. ------------- Venantius Pinto Looks like the Great Screw Goa campaign has begun. Milk anyone wanting to Goa. Pardon my lingo, but this is how I see it. -------------------- Philip Thomas There's no need to be so melodramatic, Venantius. Its basically a question of supply and demand. If Goa is unable or unwilling to increase supply of capacity at Dabolim (because it cant or wont deal with the Navy and/ or the civil aviation ministry) then fares are bound to go sky high during the season which is almost synonymous with Goa among high fliers. I thought your first line would be a complaint about the lack of tourist business to Goa. Maybe you are unhappy about the air fares middle class Goans have to bear to go in and out. Rightly so. I can fully empathise with the feeling on this count. I have the sneaking suspicion that we are prisoners here during this season.
