A great president of America

Little Abraham wanted to study, but the school was far away, and he had to stay at home to help on thee farm. Hard work made him strong. Soon he could outrun and outwrestle all the other boys of his age. Not only was he physically strong but he was also very witty. So he became leader of all the boys who lived around little Pigeon Creek. Abe never went hunting as other boys and men folk did for he loved animals and would not harm them.

For two happy years Abe and his family lived in their cabin in the woods. But when he was nine a dangerous sickness came to the wildness, and his mother became sick and died. Then the woods seemed gloomy and dark, and the days grew long for Sally, his sister, and Abe.

A year or so later their family went off on a trip, and for many weeks Abe and Sally were left all alone. Then one day, a big wagon, drawn by four horses, stopped in front of the cabin. Out of the wagon jumped their father and a kind, rosy-cheeked woman. She ran over to Abe and Sally and hugged them to her bosom. She had come to be their new mother. The step-mother had come with her three children and all her household goods. She washed and scrubbed the cabin and took charge of the family right away.

`Let Abe have time to read,’ she said when she saw how eager to learn he was. At night, after the others had gone to sleep, she let him lie by the fireplace and study. In the flickering light he practiced writing and reading.

Abe grew tall like a fir tree. Long and thin he was, with big hands and feet. The great Ohio River flowed by some miles from little pigeon Creek, and it was there that he earned his first dollar, rowing people across the river.

One night his boat was attacked by five pirates. He fought them alone, and for the rest of his life he had a white scar over his eyebrow.

As Abe traveled south he saw more and more Negro slaves working in the cotton fields. Some ran about with loads on their heads, others were led in chains through the streets to be sold at slave markets. Abe saw how Negroes were paraded like horses to show that they were strong and healthy. He saw Negro mothers weeping, for they never knew if they would ever see their little babies again. Sometimes a man who bought the mother would refuse to take the children and then they would be sold to someone else the family would be broken up. Abe Lincoln thought that was cruel.

At twenty –one he felt home, for now he was big enough to do as he pleased. Abe went to war as a Caption and defeated the enemies. When he came back to New Salem he opened a store with another young man. Very soon Abe’s friends were saying that he was too clever to stand behind a counter all day long. He should go ground making speeches so that people could elect him to go the capital of Illinois. Abe thought this was a very good idea. So he began making speeches and joking with the people. When he mounted a tree stump he would say, `I am humble Abraham Lincoln’ and the people liked what he said and his funny ways, and they elected him. One day as he was standing in his store, a covered wagon stopped at his door and danger came in with a barrel of old stuff the wanted to sell. Abe did not need the stuff but he bought it for half a dollar to help the man. When he opened the barrel he found at the bottom the book he needed to study law. From then on Abe spent most of the time at the counter studying the book. And the school master helped him with grammar and English.

Then he went to Springfield for further studies. There he walked into the store of Joshua Speed and said, `I have no money, but if I succeed I will pay you back’. Speed took pity on Abe and asked him to share his own bed for nothing. From that time on Joshua Speed was Abe Lincoln’s best friend. Slowly Abe bought himself clothes, put a fashionable hat on his head, and gradually the country lad changed into a well-known lawyer.

Late one evening Lincoln got the message that he had been elected president of the United States. Now he grew a beard. He knew he was not handsome, and he thought a beard might make him look after better. So with his life and his boys Abraham Lincoln traveled to the white House in Washington.

He tried to make friends with the southern states, but the south would not listen to him. So on New Year’s Day in 1863 Lincoln solemnly signed a paper that made the slaves free for ever. It was called the Emancipation Proclamation.

The next day president Lincoln walked into the town, holding little Tad, his son, by the hand. An old /Negro recognized the long thin man with the tall stovepipe hat. `Here is our savior,’ he carried, and threw himself at Lincoln’s feet.

It’s appearing on surface that Youth not interested in Army & Politics. But the same phenomena (youth not interested in joining on two different Profession (Army, Politics) do not give any validity that they somehow strongly co-or elated.

 Defense - pay them more:

 At some points some professions become attractive and unattractive professions have to be made more attractive. If private sector is rolling in profits and paying its employees fat salaries, well tax them and pay more salaries to defense officers. Wealth has to be shared in some logical manner. It is not lack of interest in politics but going up in politics is tough job and probably only new parties now offers chance to new people. All old parties already have dynasties in each and every constituency in the country. Young persons from nonpolitical families have to come up through parties like BSP. Tough road ahead - tough people are required. It is not every body's job unlike that of private corporate sector/public sector or government job.

 Te popular belief that Young not joining politics as it offer less than IIM package is a wrong notion.

Fact is that politics offer to much to those who able to make it; So politics natural selection create a politics entry barrier .Most young who join other profession is come from that family,social,economic & world views background that they are unable to overcome the "POLITICS ENTRY BARRIER

These lead to a scenario in which what become visible that "Youth not like to join politics". Youth should not join politics directly as career. They should first establish an income source for them through some profession. Then they should enter politics as a part time activity along with their profession. As they get more responsibility either in elected posts or party machinery, they can change into full time politicians.

 Only when they succeed in their professions, they will get support of family, friends and relatives for their political activities. Indian defense forces are corrupted as anything. There is as much corruption and buttering and favors as any government job! Plus the creamy layer and quality is not opting for defense forces. Only the average people are joining as u can see in more developed countries!!

 Politics is the curse of India:

 China is more developed because of foreign investment [Globalization].In economics I read, In India trade barriers in India have been removed only till 1991.They existed because of fear that small companies in India won’t survive!! A nation gets as good governance as the people deserve. Don't blame politics because if good people are afraid of entering politics, it’s because we don't vote the right people.The worst thing in us is that we would blame the whole world, except us for our faults.

 There has been so much campaigning going on for voting for good governance in the country at this point. I want to ask how many of us actually know who the MP is from our constituency, how much attendance he has in the Lok Shaba, how much of the MPLAD money has spent?.We would spend hours blaming the politicians but are too lazy to go out and even check such basic information! Everybody would happily spend hours in a mall, but can't take off a few hours to vote. Still we would blame politics. Why don't we start blaming ourselves? Religion is the curse of India. Politics has a self-correcting mechanism built into it and provides a provision to make changes. Religion by its very nature is self-proclaimed truth. People are much more sentimental and are ready to take-to-arms and do moral policing in the name of preserving religion, with only a measured retaliation. There is not much counter-balance. In Politics, however corrupt one party is, there will be an equally corrupt opposition which will bring out the truth.

 I am also engineer. But after completion of our engineering what we do. We go to other country for money. IT sector is giving money easy money to young guys .But what they are doing for noble cause. Nothing .Before joining politics we will have to be good human being.

 In India there are three type of considerations.

 1. Those that have money power. They don’t think to vote as they can buy anything for money.

2. After completing engineering and getting a good job in a good company he will also avoid to vote.

3. The middle class who need to vote as in there locality the public work never completed.

 How to end caste politics in India?

 It’s not that easy to ban caste based politics as India is such a diverse country and caste has got so much imbibed into the Indian psyche that it would take some time and also our politicians have mastered this art very well of divide and rule. In fact the present generations of youth are the only hope to achieve this to happen.

 It can be done if youth cutting across castes n political affiliations protest strongly. The protest by Youth for Equality has made the Government to step back n make some crucial decisions which otherwise would not be made. We had 60 years to eradicate the caste system. Instead we held close to our pettiness and propagated the caste system because one's name gave a definite advantage in education and career. Today the chasm between the upper castes and lower castes is only greater. And now that the lower castes are trying to get back on their feet and today finally we have dalit, tribal and OBC causes finding support nationally suddenly we find our voice about ending caste politics? When caste politics finally is turning the tide and starting to favor the lower castes, suddenly we scream against it. Why didn't we with a voice, open our mouths when 60 years ago, the universe of higher education and good jobs was open exclusively to us? Why didn't we open our mouths when a future president of India, K.R. Narayanan was forced by upper caste students to have a separate graduation ceremony because he was a dalit? All this is not to condone caste politics but to let people have perspective. When UCs and the Dalits/Tribals have equal access and opportunity to everything, and then let’s start screaming about caste politics.

 I wonder why anti-caste sentiment come-up only while quota implementation, not when dalits are burnt/raped/paraded. Why can’t RSS direct its militancy against eliminating these? Let put Muslims on backburner. Long live Muslims/English who made Hinduism move toward equitable society!."Because caste is embedded in our gene ,one classic example for this ,is that we have "Caste" communities" in Orkut, which only goes to show the cast mindset of the educated youth in India"

 This only shows our love for castiesm. The fact that UC related community have got more members than others, shows the exploitative mindset of higher castes. There superiority complex and hypocrisy about merit (at the time of quota implementation) is highly deplorable. The real caste-culprits are higher castes only (includes many of OBCs caste). An SC or ST is not gaining anything other than reservation from this evil. The rest of us cherish their caste. So, I doubt if education can cure this problem.

 Politics is not dirty but in India we've got really dirty politics. It’s difficult to stop this leaders bring their son or daughter as the party leader after their time. It’s as if a family property. They think they are the rulers.People don't understand that in democratic India. We are the rulers & these politicians are our servants whom we give salary in the form of tax. Instead of thy serving us some idiots serve them forgetting dignity & patriotism. We all are only required to do our duties. As per the question of politician’s sons and daughters coming in to politics, I have no problem still they do some good work for our country.

 According me our main enemies are those leaders who are parasites in the systems and also adding more parasites in to system may be any mean.To some extent, we people are also responsible for this stage of Indian politics because we people still encourage foremanship in the politics.

 If you take the media for instance, they want more business and hence frame headlines that attract attention. When I mean headlines, I am talking about the criticism. If you take any newspaper dated August 23 (20010), you will be able to see for yourself the discouragement & blame ejaculated at the politicians. The more the blame, the more the pressure. The more the pressure, the more the intrigue.

Of course, I am not to say that the politicians are doing an immaculate job. But, it's in the hands of the media & the people to encourage them do the proper thing. It’s also our responsibility to stop corruption & act legally.

 By India being big I meant cultural diversity. People of different groups and belief systems. Talking about geographical big, Russia, if you remember, was the Soviet Union once upon a time, but broke up, and China has something similar happening in Taiwan.Also, wherever cultural diversity is increasing, it's bringing with the problem of conflicting groups of people. Take examples of France (Sikhs and turbans), Germany (Indian workers being picked upon), Russia (Indians again), UK (Muslims, Asians, Indians) and also countries like Holland and Sweden which earlier had not experienced such phenomena.

Use any of the below divide technique and become GREAT POWERFUL in INDIA

1) Hindu-Muslim

2) Upper-Lower Caste

3) Desi-Vedishi ( very small though)

4) North-South-East-West-Central Indian ( All very confusing, do we decide on birth place/language/color or what)

5) Adiwasi-Non-Adiwais

7) Amir-Garib-MiddleClass log

8) Educated-Non-Educated-Semi-Educated

9) Young-Old-Infant

10) Men-Women

11) White-Black (good we don't have this a lot)

12) India-Pakistan-China

You can add more to divide India.....

I feel India is undisputedly one of the most corrupt nations in the world. And 95% of all our politicians are corrupt, liars, idiots & hypocrites. Look at how many political parties we have, Congress, BJP, BSP, Samajwadi, CPI, CPM, RJD, BJD, National Conference, PDP, NCP, Akali Dal, INLD,Shiva Sena, DMK, AIADMK, TDP,JD(S), JD(U), LJP ..yawn.

US have only two Democrat & Republicans. Britain has just 3, Labour, Conservative & Liberal Democrats. Nations like China & Russia have just 1 communist party ruling their countries for 60 plus years.

Gone are the days when a single party like Congress with mass leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, India Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi won with clear majority. one more thing look around. See past the politics and politician and look at the real important thing our future. if we allow politics to go on like this the future of our country is sure to be in the dumps. History repeats itself and incompetent administrators lead to the down fall of our country-like it did during the British era. Four years is too long a period for any politician to hold his post. Instead these jobs must be made like the private sector-if you don't work well you are fired. Well First thing mostly it’s full of corruption .and speaking practically it’s very difficult to change the situation. See our is a democratic country. Being only a cooperator or only a Mp won’t do good for chennai for instance or any other city. Everyone and especially the Main leaders should be young and damn educated and master minds.

If only we had motivated leaders with an aim in their minds, only then can our country truly benefit. Our governments are confused between mass good or class good. They have to get more votes to stay in power yet they have to make the working man benefit for the country to progress.

1-Politics have urgent need of Committed & competent young.

2- We give emphasis of Integrity & commitment over competency & efficiency in selecting public servant.

3- We always differentiate between need & greed motivation.

4- Change the public life momentum from achievement to contribution

5- Everyone- Individual, family, friends, Society, politics etc - will ready to contribute to growth of virtue, good if they wish to get virtue, good.

India doesn’t need a mass leadership for how many more years we will keep on looking for some angel to take birth and do something for us. Entering politics is not enough. We need to have our basics clear it's not about politics. you r ready to give 50 Rs. to a person for breaking rules you are ready to spit in public places, you can destroy public property in the name of religion caste. beat people with no reason if you want to change India change yourself not the government. Amend the constitution change the fundamental rights implement strict rules sue the cooperators who builds improper roads. Slap the policemen who are asking for chai pani don’t be afraid of the consequences. Do it to be recognized. Rather than praising our work that we do.

IS POLITICS RUINING SPORTS?

 I guess Sports is ruining all the 'good old politicians’. Imagine how tough it is for them to be in suits, talk sense & not call for a bandh /hartal / strike, because India didn’t get enough medals / trophy. Politics & sports should be separated - no dual membership should be allowed. Otherwise we are robbed of our circus spectacle, i.e. politicians. Down with sports, it should not ruin our politicians.

 

The President / Supreme Court should declare that,

 

1. Heading of sports bodies should be a disqualification for the Legislative, reasons that could be given1. Politicians, will not be able to do justice to their legislative function.

2. Sports bodies tend to make politicians take 'parochial' decisions.

 

Also sports bodies should have qualified CEO, with previous experience in HR / Marketing / administration. This will automatically disqualify most of the politician. The efficiency of the political system depends on aims of the party. If you have 1000 parties with the aim of India's progress it would be a great government. But if you have even two parties with the sole aim of filling their coffers the government won't work why we are so eager to criticize everyone? Why do we need to get tickets from parties? We should not see what everyone is doing instead we should concentrate on what we do. Let us ourselves start voting practically. Great revolutions have been started by individuals. Here we are a group of likeminded individuals let us contribute in our own small way. As for illiteracy we can still do many things on an individual level. We can try to help some NGOs who are sincerely trying to help the people. We can also try to educate the illiterates in our locality. We can form groups to fund the education of the needy. Many things can be done but we need a strong will and determination we have gr8 example of democracy in indianite no matter we have so much political parties. Every person has his own view regarding progress of country. But we the people (citizen of India and voter of India) are the moderator and we are "Currupt".So don’t blame political system and politicians.

 

If our youth enter into politics with good education background, there will be a change in Indian Politics. Otherwise, India will be a developing country till 2100.

The "directly elected" legislature & government would collectively take decisions on the basis of majority opinion.


Thus, it is accountable to the people they are chosen by. If these people's representatives fail to do according to the need of the people, most justifiably they are criticised or even turned down through polls.


But, the judiciary, being one of the most important authorities that functions parallelly and possesses the power sometimes not less than the legislature. If it is corrupt, i.e., should they have accountability to the people? If the answer is "no" then why must people abide by it? And if the answer is "yes", how this accountability can be built up?

Only "education & experience" should not be the prominent eligibility to "we the people" anybody so "educated & experience". A better definition, a justified acceptability, & the area(s) of jurisdiction are required.

Well, I haven't talked about any specific procedure for the accountability of the Court. But it should have "some" way(s) so that "we the people" must accept it as an authority on the basis of its justified "democratic" stance.

If we concentrate the last few  parley, the Supreme Court says that the Lower Courts should know that their jurisdiction is "limited" by the Constitution" as it is, sometimes, preceding beyond the Legislature & the Executive; but when the Supreme Court itself is asked about its own "limitation" in terms of area of jurisdiction, the Supreme Court says that such question(s) cannot be asked to the Supreme Court. So, evidently, the Supreme Court along with its subjugated Courts needed to identify the specific spheres wherein they should work.

The President of India is also accountable to the Supreme Court as the Discretionary Powers of the President can be questioned in the Court. For example, if the President of India dismisses the verdict of "Capital Punishment" using his discretionary power, it can be taken to the Court. Sill, the President has his/her accountability being elected in a specific way. We do not get any accountability to the "we the people" of the Judiciary at all.

From several sources, we come to know that neither the Military nor the Judiciary has its much greater proneness to corruption. The questions against The corruption allegations against the Judiciary is now a common thing. Day by day "we the people” are loosing faith on "Me Lord" Judiciary. It's crowded by the people because of the obligations, not much on the ground of faith.

Surely no body wants Judges to form parties and fight election, if it happens they will order to hang all opposition after the day they get elected and there will be no one to stop them from doing that.

Accountability of the Court is necessary now.

Anyone would say with guts how "Me Lord" the "corrupt judges" of India & the "Solemn" Court where this corruption is nurtured, can be put into dustbin? How that will be accountable to "we the people"?

Why each "verdict" of it MAY not be counted as "unauthorised", in cases of Afjal guru, Dantewara, Assam tribal question, SEZ, Thanjabhur Fighter Base, Babri Masjid, Taj Corridor, Sajubaba, Gujjar uprise, Nandigram, Kashmiri pandits, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Abu Salem, Universal Civil Code, and all such national debates if they are brought to court?

Why must Indian democracy abide by the unaccountable "Judiciary?

We cannot blame our founding fathers of the constitution. they made provision for it.But we have already seen the case of justice Ramaswami. How the representative of the '' we the people'' have performed in this case ? It is not the fault of the system, but the fault of the representative of the '' we the people''. They could not punish a judge. Why ?
'' we the people'' knows batter.

In future caste based enumeration of Indian population would become a regular exercise and with use of IT and better methods the data would be easy to gather and analyze. How will this affect the caste based reservation policy? Eventually , many castes that currently hold the OBC status might be found to be better represented and would have to be excluded from the OBC list. The most numerous of the forwards among OBCs would be affected. Say, if Yadavas in UP and Bihar are found to be heavily represented and no longer fit the OBC criteria they would have to be excluded from the OBC list. Similarly many other power groups among OBCs would be affected in many other states. This will have dramatic affect on the OBC politics. Suddenly Lalu, Mulayam and Sharad Yadav will become leaders of General category/Forward castes. Are OBC leaders initiating something that will eventually ruin them? RTI is there and government can no longer hide the stats. We know that under Mulayam and Lalu most selected in government jobs in UP were Yadavas. There is a possibility that they are now over represented or may would be in near future. The caste based enumeration would be a welcome step if done in totality. Don't know but would be interesting to see the result.

I am neither supporting caste based census nor opposing it here on this forum. If caste based data becomes available and this exercise becomes a norm then that will have a profound effect on the reservation policy. I mentioned Yadavas as an example (case study) and as a benchmark trend. It is no secret that forwards among the backwards take the maximum benefits under the current policy. And after RTI the government is bound to become more transparent with respect to the data. It is possible that 10 years down the line ( if already not happened) , many forwards among OBCs would come out to be over represented than their actual proportion in the population. Say Yadavas in UP amount to 12% of the state's population but their representation in government jobs in the last 2 decades has gone up to 14%.This will qualify Yadava's to be FC rather than OBC and they will be out of the OBC category by the order of some court ( may be SC).This way i guess once the data becomes available the forwards among the OBCs would be seriously affected losing out on the benefits of reservation.

Caste-based reservation should be totally done away with if India has to move forward so I don't think there is much of a point in discussing the future of this policy which is ruining the present as well as future of the whole country.