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Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Typical knee-jerk arguments, based on a misrepresentation of my position! On 3 January 2012 16:02, Carvalho <elisabeth_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Bosco wrote: > More absurd commentary!! How is the stink justified in > Calangute and not in Panaji?? More NIMBYism?? > Wherever have I said that Calangute is acceptable? I agreed with Eugene because he points out that the situation is far more complex than what one would like to conclude after reading an emotive newspaper article or two. NIMBYism? If anything, Calangute is my "backyard". Also, anyone having a nodding acquaintance with the issue would realise that the Pato problem is a persistent one. As for Calangute, the stink is temporary at best, or at worst detected by the Selmas a few thousand kilometres away. SELMA WROTE: > So let's understand economics from Frederick's point of view. Expats > (who if they hang on to their properties have all sorts of problems which > include encroachment and squatting, must not sell their properties to > the highest bidder.) No, what I'm saying is: you don't have the right to sell to the biggest crooks, and then blast those very "crooks" for doing Goa in! This is sheer hypocrisy, though it might give higher returns. > Why blame the expat for everything? Frederick even wrote a whole > newspaper article on how the middle-class expats are to blame for > the situation in Goa (Ironies of the Middleclass). The comment-piece *Ironies of the middle-class* mentions *expats* once and is about vistors who want to buy homes in Goa, the aspirations of journalism school students, the kids of jobs youth here want, general societal selfishness, the collapse of public transportation in Goa, the tendency to pin all the blame on the politician alone (as if we are not part of the very system), Goa being unable to keep greed and selfishness in check, and why we the middle-class are part of the problem ourselves. I wonder why Selma can only see expats there! FN --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------