I heard this quote somewhere; I can't remember who said it. I liked it very much, and that was – I tried Poor and I tried Rich, I liked the Rich better. I also have personal experiences of both, and I felt humiliated to portray myself as poor, when I was one. I learned very early in life that – only a rich can help a poor.
Having said that, I must explain – what do I mean by rich? In my book, if you have enough resources to meet your family needs and obligations, you are a rich man. When your needs go beyond that, and you are depressed because you cannot meet them with your resources, either you are not thinking straight or you are a greedy man. There are people like this, who always want more. We need those people in the society. Those are the engines of wealth production, continued growth, innovation, and prosperity in the society. Leftists often call them evil people. Those so called greedy people take risks that many of us do not have stomach for. Yes, many of them fail, and their failure could be catastrophic, which can affect all of us. The recent example is the failure of the financial system, which caused many financial institutions go bankrupt; many of them disappeared, many individuals committed suicide, many went to jail, etc. etc. Market force is still punishing them. The truth is - when they are winners, we win also, but nobody will give them credit for their successes. But, when they fail, we lose, and we get worked up to punish them. Isn't it disingenuous?
As you know, even though physical resources on the earth are limited, but intellectual resources are not. Many people are super-rich due to their intellectual resources. They earned wealth using their intellectual abilities; no one should envy them. We should use them as role model, instead of demonizing them. Rich people should be the model of the society.
It reminds me of those people demonstrating in front of the Wall Street. They have been living in front of the building for several days already. If you go there, smell of urine, feces, and litter will welcome you. Many of them do not know why they are there. They are just having fun under the sun. My guess is - many of them just crossed the big-Pond, after successful completion of their assignments in London. Those are the professional ones. They travel across the world. They belong to liberal organizations, like MoveOn.org, who finance them and shuttle them everywhere for agitations and demonstrations in support of organizations' view-points. I am sure - we will see many of these demonstrators in the future as Election Day nears. Many of these agitators opined their fondness of Mao Zedong, but do not know enough to say why. They want to dismantle Wall Street and all evil corporations from the face of the earth. The truth is - they don't need Wall Street and Corporations. Most of them never hold any jobs, and they do not have retirement accounts. Why would they need corporations and Wall Street? Thanks God, I do not belong to that group. I want corporations everywhere in the world, and I want strong and vigorous Wall Street. I watch every move Wall Street makes, and I feel good when it goes up, as I know my retirement account will go up with it also. When Wall Street goes down, I panic. This is me.
Therefore, sorry, no sympathy or support for those folks, sitting in front of the Wall Street. I know many bleeding-heart liberals will be disappointed with me, and if they do, it will be a complement. Jiten Roy --- On Mon, 10/3/11, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:
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