Re: The greed continues....

[Dharma Tejus <dtejus@yahoo.com>]

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..  and the stubbornness too!

Tejus wrote:
> >  No, it is not an institution like any other
> corporation. A corporation can
> > and almost always does externalize as much of its
> costs as possible.A govt.
> > cannot do that(unless it is an imperialistic one).
> A govt. has to take into
> > account the interests of the whole nation, not
> just the 'profitable'
> > segments.


Vamsi wrote:
> So,
> shouldn't we hold the Government to the same
> standard of accountability?

  Again Govts ARE different from corporations.
Yes they need to be accountable, but not in the
same manner as corporations. They have to be
answerable to the whole nation, not just their
'customers'. Citizens are NOT customers like the
customers of a corporation. Citizens cannot just
choose to go to a 'competitor', most of them do
not have the option of becoming the citizens/
customers[sic] of any other nation they choose to.

>
>     It is ideas/models such as your's, which
> advocate that somehow non-profit
> ventures are for the good of the people, have forced
> the Indian Economy into a
> miserable abyss.

  Please, let's stick to what we have been talking
about; which was your assertion that a govt is an
institution like any other corporation. To quote;

" What
 wonders could be achieved
 if the Government is subjected to the same forces as
 the private sector?  And
 why not; is it not an institution like any other
 corporation."


 And I pointed out some of the fundamental differences
between govts and corps. Do point out to me where
I advocated "that somehow non-profit ventures are for
the good of the people" or be decent enough not to
make such sweeping allegations of holding ideas
responsible for India's economic misery.


> Yet another Socialist pipedream!  A corporation
> in the process of making
> profit must, I repeat, must serve the interests of
> the population or else it
> will succumb to its competition.

 I would've liked to respond in detail to all the
things u had written; but looks like all i'll get
is name calling and being stuffed into labeled
boxes that are knocking around in your head.

 Before I give up ... a corp does not have to and
never does serve the interests of the population
of a nation; just their customers - as long as
they are customers and there is viable competition,
which has to be ensured by curtailing monopolistic
tendencies by <who?>  - and their stock holders
and employees.



Tejus



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