Loot of Indian wealth - Saffron terrorists as commission agents
Sid Harth
I think Man from the Mars, "Man with a mission" is missing, as in dog
missing the fire hydrant while pissing(off) at a wrong tree, stump, humping
Hindu fascists trump, as in Joker.
The Seattle Battle was not between imperialist America and desi. Murasoli
Maran along with the ministers of Pakistan, Bangladesh were of the "in crowd
of twenty-three," selected among arbitrarily in a last closed session. The
willing Atal, that is a new avatar of the old Fascists of Dattu Thengdi kind
saffron rabble rousers, your average "chaddiwallahs" brainwashed Brahmin
bubba brigade.
Brahmin-Bania conspiracy, this time around, is for more 'opportunities' to
make profit, not the 'profit' itself. It is a give and take situation. Bill
Clinton failed to impress the WTO ministers on why and how working
conditions of the theirs world countries must become a centerpiece of the so
called "free trade."
The globalization is here to stay and India is willing to dance, sort of
sexy fascist fandango dance to the tune of imperial American policies.
Murasoli Maran is not a victim of any kind. He tried to object to the harsh
American labor standards, a chief objection raised by the AFL-CIO thugs
trying to protect their territorial rights.
The environmental activists were clamoring for the protection of the,
guess what, bunch of whales and such funny animals but they were on target
as to the wholesale negation of the multinational companies devastating the
landscape for the benefit of their stock holders taking advantage of the
backward and poor countries such as India.
The insurance sector is not opened up at fifty percent mark as alleged by
the main man, "man with a mission." It is restricted at twenty-five percent
and such minor entry in a monopolized Indian insurance sector is a welcome
sign, as the bureaucratic jungle spawns more nepotism than actual, qualified
and capable professionals in that industry. Competition is always good,
whether in insurance or car manufacturing.
For number of years India had just two passenger car making companies
working on their Ford and Fiat outdated models. The new and vibrant car
industry is due to the infusion of the foreign capital as well as the
cutting edge modern manufacturing and marketing techniques introduced by non
American multinationals.
It is a dawn of the next millennium. The usual and customary rhetoric of
the past colonial monsters gobbling up the country called India are both
naive and misplaced. Even smaller nations, island nations have learned to
keep pace with the progress and are bending backwards to step in the future
with the acknowledged leaders of the world trade and manufacturing.
Once Naboodiripad, a communist Brahmin tried in vain to lure Bombay Bania
capital to his impoverished but highly educated and talented labor. Banias
did not like the offer as the trade unionism was totally under the communist
rule and the capital does not flow where certain freedom to explore and try
various positive but anti labor projects.
Mexico like poor countries offer much more concessions to get the American
manufacturing plants to open up and function without any state interference.
Namboodiripad could not convince the Bombay Bania capitalists that such
protection would be given to their major capital intensive projects, usually
the ones which require long time to come on stream and even longer time to
cross the red line to the black line in their annual profit and loss
reports.
Major infusion of the foreign capital cannot be equated with the British
and the Dutch, French and Portuguese trading companies of the past. The
manufactured goods, if not always, most of the time are re exported back to
the investing country's markets where they have to be proven adequate in
quality and price.
International trade is a two way traffic. Even though protectionism is
rampant in America it is no reason for the desis to grab that issue and
stall the progress. Fair or unfair competition is the only way Indian
commerce, trade and the industry would get a certificate of authenticity
from the world. Trying to save few jobs, mostly partisan jobs handed freely
to the members of the vote banks must go even otherwise.
American companies try everything, including mass retrenchments from now
and then to stay competitive. In the end a factory or a business with
thousands holding their "permanent" jobs doing nothing but pencil pushing in
between political work is bound to fail no matter whether it is protected by
the mighty government or the trade union shenanigans, as the final
arbitrator is always a consumer.
Thanks to the Earth Times and the Rediff dated December 12, 1999.
http://www.earthtimes.org/dec/environmentessayseattleviolencedec4_99.htm
http://rediff.com/business/1999/dec/03karat.htm
http://rediff.com/business/1999/nov/03pv1.htm
http://rediff.com/business/1999/nov/11insure.htm
http://rediff.com/business/1999/nov/29mitra.htm
http://rediff.com/business/1999/dec/09labour.htm
http://rediff.com/business/1999/jul/31shukla.htm
http://rediff.com/business/1999/aug/16debroy.htm
Sid Harth..."It is time to forget the past, good, bad or ugly and focus on
the future of a nation of billion cry-babies."
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Nitin Paul Batra <nba...@taurus.oac.uci.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.SOL.4.05.991212...@taurus.oac.uci.edu...
> > Bofors is a loose change when compared to the kickbacks/commissions
> > from the needless sale of profit making PSUs, Insurance companies,
> > Banks and most of what the govt. owns.
> Since these profit-making bodies were monopolies before the 1990s, prices
> could be as high as they so chose and services could be as inefficient and
> oppressive as they so chose. The people's democratic control of a service
> only exists when there are multiple companies offering it, thus
> forcing all companies to have reasonable prices, to be efficient, and to
> be just. Companies however have collaborated with each other, as
> predicted in WEALTH OF NATIONS, forming virtual monopolies; hence, labor
> protection, rent and price limits (price floors to prevent a company from
> destroying all others), nature conservation, reservations and
> anti-discrimination legislation, and consumer protection are as essential
> as the sale of profit-making governmental monopolies. I congratulate
> three great Indian leaders, Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, and Yashwant
> Sinha.
>