Eddie writes: >Response: >Yes, your motives!
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:56:26 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar <[email protected]> My motive are clear, open and announced publicly on the net. To me, your motherland cannot be compared to anything else. It is your mother after all, however poor, famished she is. You cant replace your mother by say USA. Mario responds: This is not a motive. It's a confused opinion. Here's why. Staying with the maternal analogy, if your birth mother becomes out of control and co-opted by corrupt forces that abuse you, as an adult you can choose to leave, even though she remains your mother. Samir wrote: The problem with NRGs is that they have failed to take ownership for their mother. Mario observes: To begin with, as a resident of Karnataka, you, too, are one of these NRGs. Leaving that aside, it is the RGs that allowed their "mother" Goa to be co-opted by corrupt forces while they were asleep at the switch. Samir writes: Also, venting all one's ire on non-Goans who come to Goa to barely make a living is not compassionate to say the least. One needs to come up with better solutions than just clean up the place and throw non-Goans out. Mario asks: Does this address the biggest problems in Goa? Correct me if I'm wrong, but are those "barely making a living" in Goa members of the unholy alliance between corrupt politicians and corrupt business interests? I don't think so. How many mines are they running? How many ugly building developments are they sponsoring? How many municipalities are they administering? How many Village Panchayats have they been elected to? Samir wrote: For instance, one solution that was proposed on this forum was to make Konkani compulsory for govt. jobs. At least, this will solve part of the problem. Why isnt there a groundswell of support for the above? Mario observes: I'm guessing because it does not even address the primary problem in Goa, which is the unholy alliance mentioned above. Now, can we get back to Eddie's question about your motives in attacking "foren" NRGs instead of the corruption that is ruining Goa? I still haven't figured out what these are.
