Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]> writes: > My two cents... We need people with guts and grit at the helm of affairs > (politically) in India.
The only thing worse than a government that is ineffective and impotent is one that can actually implement its policies... > Unfortunately, all of those who can really make a difference are > busy "living" their lives and those in power are mostly those who > have nothing better to do in life. People who are honest are > probably knocked off before they can make a dent in the corrupt > politicians world. As such, there is not much to hope for > really. :-) There's a whole subdiscipline of economics called Public Choice theory that is devoted to analyzing the details of how governments make decisions and why those decisions are so bad. It does not give one any real hope that there is a way to fix this problem. > Yours truly is guilty as the rest of the "living" people. I have no > time or inclination right now to actively involve myself in politics > to be able to make a difference. I have a dirty secret for you: if you did involve yourself, you would soon be as bad as the rest of them. My own small experiences of this have taught me that Lord Acton was not being flippant -- his maxim on power is a very deep truth. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [email protected]
