Monday, September 17, 2007

I am lost for words !

You must have read today's TOI article on how Rs.31,500 crores of Wheat and Rice have been siphoned out from the distribution system and sold in the black market in the last 3 years !
We need to put this into perspective. 31,500 is a LOT of money. In any terms....even gold and diamonds. But divide the amount by the per kg. price of wheat and rice and the result is mind boggling !!!
We are talking of poor people in a few millions being deprived of a basic square meal.If your interested in the math, its 18.6 million families of 4 being fed !!! Does greed now know no bounds ? That our "people in the system" now have stooped to robbing from the poor. Is a few crores here and there per person not enough ? If short-changing us the tax payers with shoddy roads and infrastructure was not bad enough....you have stooped so low to rob food from the mouths of the poor ?
How do you people sleep at night ?
What is next ?......Stand at railway and bus stops and snatch candy and treats from little kids ?

Monday, September 10, 2007

Live for Today: Double Standards

We hear and see it often in our daily lives. Young people living it up. Credit card bills more than salaries....the partying, the drinking, the smoking the cars/brands ,etc
If you tell the guy who eats...10 Big Macs a day to join the gym you will get "Who has seen tomorrow. Might as well live for today"
Or the guy who drinks like there is no tomorrow. "Hey I could get killed crossing the road"

My ? is this. How come its only vices and enjoying for ones self that comes in the "Who has seen tomorrow argument"
If tomorrow is so uncertain how come leaving your money for good causes is something you plan only "post" retirement and not give away now ?
Or yoga you do only "post" 50 and not today ?

Whatever happened to that thing called balance ?