Govenments!

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

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

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

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -Douglas Casey

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

Talk is cheap...except when Parliament does it. -Unknown

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -Ronald Reagan

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

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

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

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

Global Government Reforms : Taxation N Policing

The two arms of any Government which are most abused in any country of the world are : Police and Revenue Department.

Both are extremely important to run the Government, which provides services in a lawful environment. But in both the cases, the Person executing the powers vested onto them slips into a maglomaniac personality , believing that he is now the Gift of God to mankind. Since the systems do not provide for checks and balances , where the society at large controls the bureaucrats ( and not the politicians ) , the bureaucrats tend to get away with wrongs.

Study the case of any government in the world and you will find the biggest litigator is the Government itself. Fighting almost all its own citizens either on Tax or land disputes or politically motivated charges or simple vendetta.

In Third World, the most corrupt are the Revenue Department and the Police. The revenue department rather then looking at tax payers as the customers who are financing the budget of the government treats them like defaulters. The tax laws itself are made so complicated, that it goes through series of expert interpretations, before any sense can be made out of it.

Taxation does not need tons and tons of books and volumes of interpretations. Tax on sales is already big enough . Income tax, service tax , etc etc are all unnecessary intrusion into the personal lives of people. No person wants that any other person should know and least the Government should know the income made by him.

Again look around you and almost everything that you buy , sell, use is taxed and taxed multiple times. And if this was not enough, then the little earning out of your hard work is again taxed. The tax goes into finance the government employees and all its social projects. The Military which is supported by the tax of its own people, then goes onto attack its own people as now being seen in Syria , Libya, etc. In many African countries and Third world countries, these armies routinely plunder their own people. Should there not be a law which prohibits army firing its own people and if so the army chief facing ICC.

When it comes to Policing, it is still more interesting. An Institution , which was build to keep law and order in the society has now become the most feared institution. Ask a child, what he thinks of a policeman and he would comment him as the monster. It is also the institution, which no one in the Third world Trust. In Indonesia, they have saying, " If you go to report to the police the loss of your two chickens, you will end up loosing your goat". But this is true for most third world countries.

However, having said that , it does not mean that there are no good Revenue Officers or Good Police Officers. In fact a lot of people still fear God and don't want to indulge in obstructive activities , however, get carried away by the system. And that is why , whatever sense is still there in these department still prevails.

In both cases, the next level of redressal is "Judiciary" . The situation being such that in most Islamic nation, one would rather trust the Sharia Law to be a quick and fair system of Judiciary. For the non Islamic countries, the laws are drawn from the 15th and 16th century and most of the laws are such , where the Colonial powers made to rule over their subjects and are still carried down.

It is about time, when Governments have an introspection and review both the Revenue collection systems and Policing. The Revenue department should stop this business of continued notices for payment collection on account of misinterpretation of laws and work on collecting payments on sales of goods and services.

The Policing, altogether needs an overhaul. Police for Criminals and police for general law and order cannot be the same. General policing has to be the extended hand of Government, which is helping the public. At the outset, it should have a Uniform change. Because the current uniform whatsoever only brings a stereotyped personality of the user. A rather long subject and I will write more about it later.

Stop Viscose, Save Forest : UN Year of Forest- 2011

In the UN Year of Forest- 2011. My contribution as a Textile Expert would be to create awareness amongst the people against Viscose and its Forest Exploitation.

For all those , who are not aware, Viscose is made out of Wood Pulp and hence eats away our forest.

The current global capacity of viscose production is 2.5 million tonnes per year.

1 kg of Viscose = 4 kgs of Tree Wood

2.5 million tonnes of Viscose = 10 Million Kgs of Tree Wood

1 Tree of 20 years age = 500 kgs of Tree Wood

Viscose Deforestation per year = 20 Million Trees

Think of the environment before you buy a Viscose or Viscose Blended Fabric or Garment or any viscose substrate product.

Pls start a campaign writing under your emails, one of the options.

STOP VISCOSE , SAVE FOREST : UN YEAR OF FOREST -2011

Think of the environment, before using Viscose Fibres, yarns, Fabrics, Garments.

Viscose :Non Sustainable Forestry.

Osama Bin Laden - Al Qaeda Obituary !

When Hitler finally got killed/ got himself killed , it was an end of an era of Second World war. Co-incidentally OBL was also killed on the same date viz May 1, 2011.

OBL was a fool of the first order. If only he would have used his ideology to attack the corrupt monsters of Middle East and glorified himself in the name of Islam, perhaps, he would have become a hero of all times. But instead he went in to attack innocent citizens in the name of attack on US and other countries.

The final reprisal was not the death of some 3000 innocents in WTC, but more then a million who finally had to pay a price in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and many more countries. He successfully created a rift between Muslims and the rest of the world. More and more Muslims found themselves struggling to tell the world that they were as good or as bad as others, however, trust is like a broken glass. A prize was now being paid by whole generation of people who had nothing to do with OBL, but because of sharing the same faith had got marginalized.

Interestingly, the Moslem's in middle east have now shown to the world that for them OBL was never an ideology or an entity . Because , Egypt , Tunisia and now Libya, Syria ( In the Making ) did not go the Muslim Brotherhood way to form a theocratic state as in Iran. Also, the people in these countries have shown extreme courage by standing against corruption, bureaucracy, autocracy , unemployment , illiteracy and poverty.

The Awakening of Middle East has taken away largely the " Islamophobia" and pushed Al Qaeda into a marginalized force, which actually was responsible to bring shame to so many rich traditions of Islam.

The end of OBL would mean largely the end of Al Qaeda. While some block headed will still go and commit suicide bombings , however, I would still reckon that it is only a matter of time where the remnant leadership is also trapped and killed.

For those who keep shouting that Al Qaeda is an ideology , then this ideology of idiots and killers will have no subscribers , other then petty gangsters posing as monsters.

OBL and all his associates would have been killed right after US bombing of Afghanistan, if only the Americans had shown the courage to take over the borders of Pakistan and would have then attacked Waziristan and other such notorious areas. Knowing well that most militants crossed over to Pakistan from Tora Bora mountains, yet the US did not take any actions. This is why , I always say, Americans are very fast in running into a war, but don't know, how to win a war.

As for Pakistan, it just cannot complain to be the victim of terrorism, in fact it has been the very host of these terrorist and an open training centre for them. Every single terrorist so far caught has its Graduate Degree from Pakistan and if there is one without the Pak degree, then he is not considered Harvard Qualified . If Pak. allows terrorist to enjoy the hospitality , then for sure the terrorist rules will apply and not the civilian rules.

But that also does not mean that Pakis support terrorism, infact most of them are dead against these jokers. It is only the ISI and some elements of the establishment and the weakness of the Government that such jokers have found a safe sanctuary.

Even now, Pak Government should call the Army chief and ask him to wage a war in Waziristan and take help of the Americans and clean up all other similar pockets and start afresh with new slate.

Well, again the winner coincidentally is " George Bush" , though the Nobel prize still goes to Obama. Not that I am one bit fan of George Bush, but cannot stop giving his rightful honor for bringing whatever sense into Afghanistan. Though after the Iraq and Afghanistan experience, I have felt that a state after being run by Dictators needs a cooling period before it migrates to Democracy. Democracy is like a new found freedom after years of bondage and most people don't make sense of it and the bureaucracy immediately takes over the roll of dictators and the state slips into another mess of corruption.

What was most remarkable, the way the operation was carried out. I hope some day soon a movie will be made on it. Well Done US Navy Seals . The world salutes you.