from green to black

gripe

this has been bothering me for some time since my recent chat with
my uncle whom i respect a lot. much of it has to do with the hypocrisy
i addressed in the first place. the other is with his utter failure to deal
with what constitutes the box that he advocates thinking out of. i'd be
totally embarrassed if that was the best argument he could muster in
defense of his actions but as it goes, at least i have blogger to gripe
about it, instead of embarrassing him on facebook which may prove
to be rather unnecessary.

firstly, the charges.

if your vote can be bought with just $700 cash, please skip the
proselytization about the ideals you stand for in thinking outside
the box because $700 is enough to silence the idealism out of you.

i am most upset that you would reduce politics to whoever puts money
in your pocket. obviously you didnt do your accounts and you didnt
bother to weigh the the arguments that were contrary to your beliefs.
but let me do it for you as your nephew since you hate repetition but
only in the sense that i'm saying it.

1 july 2007, GST was raised from 5% to 7%

i guess mathematically $700 in rebates meant that you have been compensated
for $10 000 in stuff that you have bought over the last 5 years. that is very
impressive since $10 000 is not easy to find before it is spent. if the $200
increase not worth quibbling over because the government has done a good
job in making sure that they have improved your quality of life with what you
can buy, i would have been silenced. they have not. inflation for one has
reduced the value of what you can buy. even if inflation was a non-issue
because it is good as an indicator of growth, i dont see how this money in
your pocket means very much when your salary is not growing despite the
government's efforts. i guess for all that you dream of enjoying, you would
just have to make do with the $700 more since you're supporting a position
in which your salary rise is lower than the rate of inflation which erodes that
value for $700.

worse still, you held the position that i should think outside the box when
you not only failed to see that the box limited what could be practically be
achieved, you limited yourself to the box because you didnt have the faith
in people that it was possible to do things in any other way. now that my
friend, is hypocrisy, you cant have your cake and eat it this way. i could
propose as i have the ideas to unlock value, you reframed it as a matter
of partisan interest questioning my understanding of governance. could
you be further from the truth of thinking out of the box.

well pak, you're a smart guy, when you figure out, let me know.

posted by green unseen @ 12:32 AM