Violence- Urge to massacre

Apropos the article in Op-Ed, DC B'lore dtd 21 Jul. 2012 - "Lessons from Norway", some more underlying factors needs to be examined for the violence prevalent and increasing in a very wide spread and disastrous manner all over the Globe. Keeping the nomenclatures like Islamic, Taliban, Western or Eastern and so on aside because more often than not it restricts and biases the scope and nature of enquiry, we ought to go to roots or as nearly to the roots of the causes. I wont be surprised if the examination reveals that what seems to be the reasons apparently are not the real causes. It may be shocking to see that the reasons seem to be attributable to the huge disparity in the human status levels in terms of money, houses, education, and the monopoly over the various other resources. If 10% of the population monopolise 90% of the resources in various areas, the remaining 90% of the society will keep simmering and burst at the available opportunities or the vents created by others with vested interests of gaining what they don't have including respect and fear. A simple eye opener real example of deceptively trivial quality - I was in a party at a big hotel and as is my habit, entered in to conversation with a waiter. After he found that I was for him and not against him what he said was alarming. The gist was that he and others like him were burning inside due to the blatant and vulgar drama of money and wastage put up every day by the extreme rich and powerful. And old people like him keep burning and cursing the 'filthy' rich, youngsters like his chlldren are for a bloody revolution to 'straighten up' such people who are 'dead drunk' with the money and power. The have's are sitting on tinder boxes of their own making and history shows that it may take some decades for the volcano to burst, it will erupt surely. Have's are themselves the causes of revolution and it has to be bloody because over so many decades 'have's' have also sucked the blood of the poor, very cleverly. These people may feel very safe behind their castles, jets, yatchs and pulls but will their future generations continue to be safe, is not a mute question. Let this class awaken and take necessary steps to reduce the huge gulf of disparities of standards of living around them. If they fail to see the necessity, it is to their own and their future generations, peril.

Premji Bhanushali,

c-108 vishnu residency, street no.11, gandhi nagar, hyderabad 500080.

21 jul 2012

Politicians and Government- Quotes valid these days too.

 1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams 

2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain 

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain 

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill 

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw 

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to payoff with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy 

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994) 

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University 

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian 

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850) 

11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan(1986) 

12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers 

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J. O'Rourke 

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire(1764) 

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -- Pericles (430B.C.) 

16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain(1866) 

17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. --Anonymous 

18. The government is like a baby's alime

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill 

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain 

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903) 

22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. -- Mark Twain 

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

 24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson 

25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. --Aesop 

FIVE BEST SENTENCES 

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity. 

2.What one person receives without working for...another person must work for without receiving. 

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. 

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!