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Happy New Year Twenty-Ten
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 18:15:27 +0400
From: Arwin Mesquita <[email protected]>
Squeezed between the calamities of tourism and mining, Goa is on the brink,
says CARMEN MIRANDA, as she calls for change
http://www.oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=31766&cid=14
Excerpt:
What are we waiting for? For the next election, to recycle the same people
into power again?
Mario observes:
Carmen is absolutely correct in her situational analysis as we call it in
business cycles. However, where she goes from there is problematic.
To the question, "What are we waiting for? For the next election...?" my
answer would have to be YES! THAT is where it all has to begin. But you don't
have to WAIT, for crying out loud. DO SOMETHING to identify and help the kinds
of politicians you think will take you in the direction you want to go.
Are you all deluding yourself that you have any other viable choice?
To the question, "...to recycle the same people into power again?" my answer
would have to be NO! THIS is what the problem has been all along since 1987 -
electing and re-electing corrupt politicians.
If you look at it logically and not emotionally, ask yourself why corrupt
politicians keep getting elected and re-elected in Goa? Is this because the
thoughts and feelings expressed by Carmen in the column under reference are
shared by most Goans who show up on election day?
Excerpt:
It is in our hands to systematically provoke a reform that will scare away
from public life those swindlers and crooks who are sucking the blood out of
Goa!
Mario observes:
I have absolutely no idea what this means in real life. The swindlers and
crooks ostensibly running Goa are hardly going to be "scared away" by emotional
sentiments by non-resident Goans, however heartfelt. There is only two things
they care about: a) The next election results, and b) Lining their own pockets
in-between elections.
BTW, in case anyone misunderstands my bucket of cold water, I, too, would LOVE
to see a Goa exactly as Carmen has descibed IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN!
I just don't see her call for a French-style Revolution in Goa's future.
