Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world, has warned against repealing estate-tax in US. Tax cutting by Bush and cronies has reached to a point that even the rich are complaining:
Read the article here
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Capitalism, immigration and alienation
Capitalism in North America needs immigration and feeds on it. Immigrants, especially uneducated non-skilled immigrants are willing to do the dirtiest jobs, with minimum wages, without any complaints, and actually are thankful to be in North America. They are the epitome of the slave labour which is a necessary requirement for capitalism. The native labour force can never be treated as badly as immigrant labours and stay quiet, they know more about their rights, feel more secure in their "own" country and unionize and object to the abuse.
The alienation of the immigrant labour force brings about another outcome. Immigrants never feel attachment to their new homeland, as much as a native. They don't demand better services. Hundreds of years of experience with capitalism proves beyond doubt that a capitalist system never delivers services without pressure by masses. In countries like Switzerland and Japan, which have a lower level of immigration, and most people are natives with generations of entitlement to the country behind them, the level of services are much higher, because people are not alienated, they feel they belong and they demand better services. In countries like US or Canada, as a large number of people are immigrants, the demand for better services is lame and weak and as a consequence, the services are only provided for the upper classes and not for the masses of the populations.
The alienation of the immigrant labour force brings about another outcome. Immigrants never feel attachment to their new homeland, as much as a native. They don't demand better services. Hundreds of years of experience with capitalism proves beyond doubt that a capitalist system never delivers services without pressure by masses. In countries like Switzerland and Japan, which have a lower level of immigration, and most people are natives with generations of entitlement to the country behind them, the level of services are much higher, because people are not alienated, they feel they belong and they demand better services. In countries like US or Canada, as a large number of people are immigrants, the demand for better services is lame and weak and as a consequence, the services are only provided for the upper classes and not for the masses of the populations.
A polish man and a Taser
There are two very separate issues in the event of the murder of the innocent Polish man in the Vancouver aiport:
1. Irrespective of what he had done, the reaction of the police guys was too aggressive and over the top. Taser is usually left as a last resort, but the video taken there shows that they use it as a first resort, without even asking him a question.
2. Now that his background in Poland is being known, we notice that he has a record of robbery and other criminal acts. It is strange how such a person with such a criminal record is allowed to enter the country as a legal immigrant while thousands of clean educated applicants have to wait for years to be granted immigration.
Canada has to have a complete overhaul of its immigration policy.
1. Irrespective of what he had done, the reaction of the police guys was too aggressive and over the top. Taser is usually left as a last resort, but the video taken there shows that they use it as a first resort, without even asking him a question.
2. Now that his background in Poland is being known, we notice that he has a record of robbery and other criminal acts. It is strange how such a person with such a criminal record is allowed to enter the country as a legal immigrant while thousands of clean educated applicants have to wait for years to be granted immigration.
Canada has to have a complete overhaul of its immigration policy.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Human Beings Sane? Why do we think we are any better than other animals?
Human beings think that they are advanced and more reasonable than other animals. I always think 6 reasons are enough to prove how stupid and unreasonable we "hairless apes" are:
1. smoking: Despite 50 years of heavy campaign against smoking, and despite extensive research that proves beyond doubt that smoking is a serious health hazard, there are still millions and millions of human beings that smoke. Each time I see somebody opening a pack of cigarettes with those nasty pictures of wasted lungs and teeth on them and the warning that smoking is hazardous to your health, each time I see near death patients on wheelchairs outside the main door of hospitals smoking in the cold windy day, I ask myself: “do you need any other proof that we are just another primitive primate with a primitive brain”?
2. Religion: Despite all the scientific advances we have made, right in the middle of the so-called most advanced society in the world, in US, large groups of people still believe that humans are created by god 6000 years ago, refuse to accept evolution, accept that all sorts of miracles are true, and lots of other false outdated beliefs. They go through boring 2000 year old books believing them word by word and fight tooth and nail to stop scientific advances like stem cell research.
3. War: Are we different from any small tribes of chimpanzees when they fight the other tribe and kill their young and adults just because they are “different”? How can we boast we are different, more advanced, and reasonable when we still fight as ferociously and every day “invent” better ways to kill and annihilate each other?????
4. The British Royal Family: Can you find any group of people as useless as this family? What is the rason de etre of this family? Just because you have dropped out of the vagina of a certain woman you are entitled to all these privileges? You own vast tracts of lands, palaces, wealth and power just because you are one of them? What is the difference between prince Charles and any other man on the street? The only difference is that the passage that guy passed through to come to this world was not located between the legs of a certain person! Why on earth is any of them entitled to all those privileges and wealth? As long as there is such a thing as a royal family in this world that thinks it has the gods approval to be different and is blue blooded, and worse than that, is “loved” and “approved” by its own people, I will always doubt the sanity of human beings.
5. The existence of countries and borders: We are all one species, we are not Americans or Bangladeshis or Japanese. Why borders? Why countries? Why draw a line on the sand and say I, at this side of this line, have the right to be prosperous and powerful and happy, and you just on the other side of the line have to be poor and oppressed and illiterate? Can any sane and reasonable person bring up just one reason why we need to have borders and countries?
6. LOTTERIES AND CASINOS: We all know chances of winning big in a lottery is statistically less than being hit in the street by a meteorite, yet still hordes of people buy lottery tickets every day. And if casinos were going to pay more than they made, there wouldn't be any casino around and yet still millions of people go to casinos everyday to "win". Shall I go any further??These are just 6 reasons why we are not sane, why we are no different than gorillas and chimpanzees, why we are animals like any other animals, and why we don’t have any rights to boast about our special place in this world and this universe. I can go on and list a thousand other reasons, but do you think it is necessary???
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