Sunday, November 26, 2006

Fwd: Trust this invisible advice

nov 25th, 2006

entertaining ghostwriting by jerry rao for milton friedman.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shahryar

 
Trust this invisible advice
Jaithirth Rao
Posted online: Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST

Dear Dr Singh: As you have doubtless heard from the press, I have entered the Great Beyond and have had the privilege of meeting up with the father of our profession, Adam Smith (if I remember correctly, you earned a prize named for him during your university days). As it happens, one of our first topics of conversation was about your grand country — a country of so much promise and potential, a country unnecessarily cursed with widespread poverty, a country where we all hope you will leave behind a legacy of freedom and prosperity. If you remember, Adam Smith had been an early opponent of the East India Company (a state-sponsored monopoly house) which did so much economic damage to your country and incidentally to Britain, which would have been much better off with India as a prosperous trading partner rather than as an impoverished dependency. Monopolies and quasi-monopolies, be they state-owned or state-sponsored, work arduously to stifle economic competition to the detriment of large numbers of people and for the benefit of a select cozy oligarchy. I don't need to tell you this. Your government has been trying against great odds to dismantle state monopolies. You have had some success in the airlines and telecommunications industries but you are still struggling with coal, electricity distribution and so on. Where you have succeeded, prices have dropped, employment has shot up, consumers have benefited, wealth has been created, citizens are better off. Where you have been held back, the country too seems to have been held back.
 
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5 comments:

bly243001 said...

Jerry Rao is self-confessed proud Macaulayite. So I take his words with handful of salt. Vouchers will only mean that govt. money will end up funding christian/missionary schools, given Indian populace's prejudice against Hindu run schools and penchant for "convent" schools.

Bala said...

Thanks for the link, San... it's really good.. Also came across "Watchmen" uploaded by one 'sanskritter'. If that's you, thanks again!

Ghost Writer said...

Dear Friend Abhiha Marathe
The government does not have to provide vouchers to temple schools - only if they left the schools alone Indian literacy rates would sky-rocket. Read this article http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1986/03/1986-03-05.shtml and the wikipedia entry for the Ramakrishna mission
This lends greater credence to my theory (actually I think Rajeev first propounded it) that the Commies and Secularists have a vested interest in keeping Indian illiterate - and why not if people could read and write they would find out the reality of these sick idiots.

The devil of the piece is Article 30 of the constitution. The greatest service to the Hindu (and Indian) cause would be to amend or abrogate this article. When this is done, in a span of 10-15 odd years the Indian masses will be ready to kick everyone's ass

AGworld said...

Why did the BJP not take up scrapping of article 30?

anyone with any reliable information on this?

habc said...

behold the religion of peace
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006510243,00.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006510113,00.html