Mario wrote: "Gentle Goan nature"? Was your friend smoking or drinking something illegal at the time?:-))
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:55:06 +0530 From: Tony de Sa <[email protected]> What makes you think that? Please elaborate. Mario elaborates: If you had not truncated what I wrote you would have seen that your friend referred to the "gentle" nature of Goans being somehow corrupted, which I thought was really funny. This is the same guy who resented Goan workers and service providers being fairly paid Mario previously wrote: Your friend seems to be a Goan Scrooge, with no sympathy or generosity towards hardworking laborers and other service providers. Tony responds irritably: So be it. You have a problem with his way of thinking? Has he asked you to be his disciple and follow him? Mario responds: Your friend the Scrooge hasn't asked me anything. I don't even know who he is. Yes, I have a problem with his notion that working people and service providers in Goa are being "overpaid" because of NRIs and "foreigners". They are paid what they are worth to us. Mario previously wrote: Tell him wages and prices equalize demand and supply. Tony wrote: And so now you have metamorphosed into an econmics professor. Please put your economic tinkering to better use. The US of A which is deep in recession needs your pseudo skills. With a lit bitta luck, it might improve! Mario responds: One doesn't have to be an economics professor to know the most basic fundamentals of economics. The US in the middle of a recession still has a far better quality of life than India at its best - as JoeGoaUK's pictures constantly remind us. Unfortunately, it will not improve much until we send President Hussein back home to Chicago. BTW, he clearly needs some lessons in the fundamentals of economics and life in general, which he did not learn as a community agitator. No wonder he has had his college transcripts sealed like state secrets while he blithely discloses real state secrets of how we got information from the jihadis who tried to kill us. Mario previously wrote: No wonder they are pleased to see NRI's when we come:-)) Tony wrote: You must be kidding. I as a local (and I assure there are droves of others), would welcome you not only with a black flag, but a whole black banner which runs across the street. :-P And what is more, to show my admiration, I would garland you with a string of discarded chappals! Mario responds: No, I'm not kidding. Don't let the smiley face fool you. Apparently you and your friend the Scrooge are birds of a feather and share the same bilious disposition, instead of being happy that some Goans are making more money from visitors to Goa. The ones who are happy to see us are the workers and shopkeepers and restaurant owners whom you and he think are "overpaid".
