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16-18, May 2008 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- CORNEL DACOSTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Eddie > Just for the record, I want to say how saddened I > was > by what Michelle Savage had to say about the > difficulties she and her husband faced in Goa ----------------------------------- Dear Eddie and Cornel, A Irish gentleman read my letter on Goanet and wrote in to thank me. I was rather glad he somehow came across my letter, if only to reassure him that not all Goans are xenophobes. There is an outcry that Goans cannot afford property or flats in Goa, so let me pose some pertinent questions? a) How many Goans can afford Wendel's creations? Does this mean that Wendel must produce a designer line of Kapod and Kasti, at affordable rates for Goans? b) How many Goans can Remo find to finance, produce and distribute his music? Does this mean he stop producing music or does he seek financing and distribution where he can? c) How many Goans can afford the lobsters that are sold at beach shacks for Rs600 a plate? Does this mean Goan fishermen supply to shacks only after every family in Goa has had a lobster on its plate? Land is a resource and like any other resource it is in short supply. People all over the world are facing the same problem Goans are, which is why you elect governments that put in place, affordable interest rates, housing loan assistance, relieving the pressure on the housing market by building low-cost housing. These are some of the legitimate ways of doing it in a free-market democracy. Yes, ofcourse we have to conserve our land, our culture and our heritage but we don't have to lose our dignity or thwart democracy in the process. selma