Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:04:32 -0500 From: "manuel tavares" <[email protected]>
To ensure that all eligible Goans are registered to vote and also ensure that on election day, they turn up and vote out all corrupt, selfish, and dishonest Members of parliament and vote in honest, courageous and selfless MP's who know that it is an honor to represent the people in parliament and ensure that it is the people's business that they are elected to conduct NOT their own and that they are there to do the Peoples work not to enrich themselves at the people's expense. Mario adds: Amen. Even I could not have said it any better:-)) I hope Wendell, Floriano, Venita, Tony, Samir and all RGs will take this to heart and do whatever they can to make this happen. BTW, the last two need to put down their stones and quit thumping their chests. Whatever else you do will not go very far if the local citizens cannot be riled up to "throw the bums out". They showed what they could do by opposing the inappropriate SEZs and CRZs, and this would be another step in the right direction. In the meantime, the Village Panchayats who caved in to the Rahejas need some attention. Wendell told us of the relations he had developed with his own Panchayat and Sarpanch, and there is no reason why the villagers affected by the Raheja developments cannot do the same. 2010/1/19 soter <[email protected]> wrote: Sometimes it just baffles me as to why people blame politicians for Goa's miserable state. It is just like the parents of a drug addict blaming the friends, police and government for not doing enough to curb the drug menace. We simply deny that we are also part of the problem. When it suits us the politicians are good and when it does not they are bad. Mario asks: Soter, While you are right that the citizens are ultimately to blame for electing and re-electing corrupt politicians, are you saying that it is the average citizens who are allowing the destruction being caused by open pit mines being left un-landscaped and un-rehabilitated after the useful ore has been extracted? Is it average citizens who are approving ugly building developments without regard to the surrounding ambiance, history and architecture? Is it average citizens who are allowing the Rahejas to run roughshod over the desires of the rest of the village? The citizens are responsible for electing legislators who they think will benefit them, and the legislators are then expected to exercise wise judgment and decision making in order to do so. If they do not they should be replaced at the next elections instead of being re-elected time and again. It only took ONE MAN's courage and vision to turn the mammoth Indian economy around after 50 years of going in the wrong direction. While he had help from others who believed as he did, they were unable to do what was necessary until he came along. That ONE MAN was Manmohan Singh, who is quiet and unassuming and the opposite of a chest-thumper. Neither does he throw stones at NRGs. In fact, he is doing everything he can to encourage whatever NRGs can do to help India, unlike a couple of stone-throwing chest-thumpers roaming around Goanet looking for NRGs to attack. Manmohan Singh is a great example of what ONE good politician can do. Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:23:35 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar <[email protected]> [Goanet] Our future meeting with Goa CM regarding tax sops Guys, I dont need to do this. I am quite comfortable in Bangalore. Mario responds: I know you don't. I know you are. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but I have included you in my commendations of those who are doing positive things for Goa. The only aspects of your approach I find deplorable are your wholesale and often incoherent personal attacks on NRGs other than yourself, who is also an NRG as you have admitted above, some of whom have done at least as much as you for Goa and others who are interested in doing more. At the very least, unless they are physically impeding something positive for Goa, leave them alone and mind your own business. They are not your adversaries, even though YOU have chosen to make them so. There is plenty for all the chest-thumpers to do in Goa, in case you haven't noticed. There is enough limelight for everyone. Tell Savio to contact someone like Victor Menezes who is an advisor to an investment group that invests in India: http://nsrpartners.com/team_victor_menezes.html
