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To: arun gera who wrote (67612)	10/27/2010 7:22:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220165

Arun, I have done all sorts of work, some of it very low paid. My work was not a gift. I was paid the going rate for it. < More likely, they went downhill because they could not enjoy the gifts of other people's labor any more. > As you know from India's socialist mire for half a century, the "gift" of low paid Indian labour is not wealth-making if the framework within which they work is not based on the amazing Virtuous Victorian Values. I now provide capital and labour for the American Empire and once again am paid the going rate for it. The USA companies which profit from my efforts and capital are not robbing me. It would be good to also score a free USA passport and right to travel and live there, but they perhaps learned from the British Empire that it's best to keep the hungry hordes at bay in their own countries and use their labour at arm's length. The USA does let me in for R&R and to visit for short periods. You are certainly right that fighting Germans was a major debilitating process for Great Britain for a couple of major wars, but I doubt as debilitating as The British Disease which has had a very long innings. Maggie Thatcher tried to stop it but that was a brief hiatus and only of partial success. Arun [an Indian young man we know] works for Google [in the USA]. I doubt that his efforts should be considered a "gift" as you call it. He gets what he thinks is a good deal and his employers do too. The USA government clips the ticket [and takes quite a bite in that "clip"]. The son of a Peruvian bloke we know works for Microsoft - same deal. Their fathers worked for Alcatel in Belgium. Those "gifts" are good for all. Blaming the glorious British for the gross failure of India is getting to be a bit old. Heck, it's now way over half a century ago. Look how well China has done in just a couple of decades. Even children grow up and take responsibility for themselves after only a couple of decades [though some are hanging on for longer these days and Italian sons are noted for staying on for a good long time]. One day Barack will have to stop blaming King George II for the failures of the USA too. Maybe after half a century. Hey, New Zealand could blame Great Britain too for all our "gifts" to them. Maybe that's why we are going down the gurgler and the murder rate is rocketing. Those damn Pommy Bastards!! We have got more reason to blame the English than India has - we have been ruled by Britain much longer. Heck, Queen Elizabeth II is still overall boss [on the advice of our local political bludgers]. We did get rid of the Privy Council a few years ago [and now have had to turf out a local yokel crooked Supreme Court judge who turned out to be less than reliable]. It hadn't occurred to me to blame the English. Good idea. Thanks for the tip Arun. It's not us, it's them. I shall shake my fist in their direction and whine like a fleet of Koreans [who whine like a fleet of 747s about CDMA royalties]. Mqurice