On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: > I could never imagine the day would come when I actually agree with anything > Ms Roy wrote. He's her op-ed in The Hindu today: > > http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article2379704.ece?css=print
>From this article I can tell that she's against a lot of things, but she doesn't seem to be actually advocating anything -- which kind of makes it a pointless rant. I'm on the fence on this one. IMO, corruption is an unlegislated tax on everyone we're obviously better off with less of it. I also don't agree with Ms Roy's idea that corruption by poor people is somehow less criminal. On one hand, big government seems a bad idea -- who really wants _another_ bloated bureaucracy to pay off? On the other hand, 70s & 80s latin america has shown us that laissez faire economics is not the silver bullet that acorn paints it to be. The gripping hand is that the real solution is a fair and transparent government playing counter-balance to corporate and other special interests. That's the option that neither side in this noisy circus act wants to look at. *sigh* -- b
