Sarcasm is a useful tool but can easily cloud the message and confuse the reader. Its a fine balance and I am not much good at it myself.
Before the minnow starts selling its best nibbles to the next door whale it would be wise for the minnow to think matters through and to have a plan. The Deshi minnow however is more than willing to sell its nibbles to the whale as the Deshi minnow has a penchant for whale droppings, an inability to think things through and an inability to plan.
As far as we know the skinny shark on the other side of the fat whale is dead.
My Kingdom, My Kingdom - My Kingdom for an Indira Gandhi Peace Prize.
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "ANDREWL" <turkman@...> wrote:
>
> Okay, okay. We would tell Indian Inverters, ...
> .
> * ... they are not allowed to buy any Profitable Industries of B.D.
> * ... they are allowed to buy only Non Profitable and Junk Industries so they can lose their hard-earned money because this is what all Foreign Investors are supposed to do.
> .
> We would also tell BD Industry owners to stop being un-patriotic. You would be arrested and tried for Treason if you sell any of your Profitable Industry to Indian Investors.
> .
> But now please tell us, when are you going to bring in your Pakistani Masters to buy our industries?
>
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Wazed" <wkkhondkar@> wrote:
> >
> > Mr. Ezajur,
> >
> > You see foreign ownership of industries in BD (especially by India) can not be considered FDI. India is buying successful (I mean profitable) industries in BD that has been built up by Bangladeshis - they are not investing in new sectors of industries such as the IT sector because they know that Bangladesh will become a competitor of India! Telecoms is not a manufacturing sector - it is a service sector.
> >
> > As you have said - so far FDI from India is virtually zero. Whatever FDI they have made is in the "service" sector - that does not manufacture anything that use raw material and labour of BD and exported from BD to other countries.
> >
> > Lets face it those cheap goods they dump in BD's market needs local distributors, agents etc. But that is hardly a job creation scheme in BD! The real jobs comes from FDI that creates factories, use local raw materials and local labour force. In the last 20 years India has done none of that. Those who have no interest in our well being - we should not have any interest in helping.
> >
> > We all remember the proposed investment of billions by Tata that never materialised because the price for a unit of gas Tata was willing to pay was much below whole sale market price - our gas is a very precious commodity. And quite rightly the previous BD government did not pursue this any further.
> >
> > This discussion thread has shown one important thing about us educated bangladeshis - we are vey naieve and stupid to think that India is going to help us to prosper and become richer. In a globalised world - everybody is looking after their own interest. But who is looking after our interest - if we don't look after ourselves?
> >
> > What I have seen so far I do not have much faith in present government to look after our interest - they are more busy to make India richer. I wish I had a friend like Bangladesh - I can dump cheap goods in her market, choke her growth and ask for free transit to export my goods to the rest of the world, and transport machinery and powerplants through BD to industrialise other parts of my country and become richer.
> >
> > Many thanks for your response.
> >
> > Salam
> >
>
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