पाकिस्तान को ४० बिलियन का ऐड

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लोगों ने इंटरनेट पर पढ़ा कि अमरिका ने पाकिस्तान को ४० बिलियन ऐड में दिया है। और जमीन पर कुछ दिख नहीं रहा है। एक मियाँ भाइ दुसरे को देख रहे हैं शक के दृष्टि से। ये उस को देखता है, वो उसको देखता है। कि मियाँ, वो जो अमरिका से पैसा आया, वो कहीं आपने तो हजम नहीं किया? कोइ ऑफिस में नया सुट पहन के आ जाता है तो शक शुरू। नया सुट पहना है बंदा, कहीं वो ४० बिलियन यही तो हजम नहीं कर बैठा!

तो होता क्या है कि वो पैसा कभी अमेरिका से पाकिस्तान तक पहुँचता ही नहीं। अमरिका सरकार के खाते में से कुछ डिफेंस कंपनिया बगैरह के खाते में पैसा जाता है। पाकिस्तान पहुँचता है महंगा महंगा हथियार। ये बिजनेस है। और वो हतियार इस्लामाबाद में चाँदनी चौक पर डिस्प्ले कर दिया जाता कमसेकम तो लोग देखते कि यही है, अमरिका ने जो ४० बिलियन दिया। आम आदमी तो दुर आम सिपाही को भी कभी दिखाया नहीं जाता। अधिकांश तो गोदाम से कभी निकलते नहीं। कभी प्रयोग ही नहीं हो पाता।

बिजनेस में एक कांसेप्ट है ROI, यानि कि Return On Investment. तो १० मिलियन कांग्रेसमैन सीनेटर लोगों को खिलाओ तो वो लोग बिल पास करेंगे, बिल का नाम रहेगा फॉरेन ऐड टु पाकिस्तान टू फाइट द वॉर ओन टेरर। बिल पास होगा। खर्चा हुवा १० मिलियन, प्रॉफिट हुवा १० बिलियन। उतना प्रॉफिट मार्जिन तो सॉफ्टवेयर में भी नहीं है। अच्छा बिजनेस है। और यहाँ एक मिया भाइ दुसरे मिया भाइ को देख रहा है, कि मिया वो जो मैंने इंटरनेट पर पढ़ा अमरीका ने जो दिया वो कहीं आप तो हजम नहीं कर गए?

Don't get me wrong. मैं ये नहीं कह रहा कि पाकिस्तान में करप्शन नहीं है। अगर करप्शन ना होता तो गरीबी ही ना होता। जहाँ जहाँ गरीबी है मान जाओ वहाँ करप्शन है। करप्शन खतम गरीबी खतम।

War And Peace

Via Occupy Wall Street

The US Military Budget Needs To Come Down To 100 Billion From 600

Image via WikipediaI Fixed The Budget, You Can Too

The Washington Post: The Politics And Economics Of A Falling Dollar: in 1944 when Britain’s John Maynard Keynes and the United States’s Harry Dexter White conjured up the financial architecture for the global economy that served the world rather well from the end of World War II through the early 1980s. Since then, its shortcomings have been revealed by a series of financial crises that have become more severe and more frequent, with the fixes for one planting the seeds for the next ..... a new and better architecture has proven elusive ..... The dollar is used worldwide as the agreed-upon unit of exchange by producers and traders to price oil, minerals and other commodities. Ditto illicit dealers in drugs, weapons and other contraband....... Because it is the currency most easily exchanged, the dollar is on one side or the other of 85 percent of the transactions on global currency exchanges. When Indians buy Chilean wine, the transaction is usually conducted by converting rupees into dollars and then dollars into pesos. ..... by making it so cheap and easy to borrow money, we have been enabled and encouraged to live beyond our means, taking on so much debt that the dollar’s role as reserve currency is now called into question ..... foreign officials have been looking to diversify their portfolio. Indeed, that was just what they were doing in 2007 and 2008, until the euro crisis raised doubts about the next-likely alternative. ..... In the optimistic scenario, a credible budget deal is reached in Washington, the Fed manages to sop up all the excess liquidity it has created, and the long-term slide in the dollar remains gradual enough for the world to muddle through until a new order and a new architecture can emerge. ....... the failure to adopt a budget deal triggers a U.S. credit crisis that spawns a dollar crisis, which sets off another global financial crisis — one that makes the last one look like child’s play. ..... the heart of most of the economic issues we’re dealing with, from budget battles to the euro crisis to the rising price of gasoline.

America has to balance its budget, and the raging debate on the defunding or funding of Planned Parenthood is a loud act of denial. The Planned Parenthood's budget is peanuts. You could kick that organization out of existence and the US budget deficit will be as big as ever.

Some major cuts are needed. The number one item on the table has to be the size of the US military. It is too big. America can't afford it. I think the US military budget has to be brought down from the 600 billion it is today to a more manageable 100 billion. David Cameroon in Britain might have some tips to share.

Who takes care of the world then? What you do is you work towards rule of law also between nations. You build stronger international organizations. I can see need for future military action in the service of democracy like is going on in Libya. And I am all for it. But such exercises are best if they are UN sanctioned and many nations are involved.

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