To Goanet - Floriano Lobo wrote: >Thank you for your balanced assessment.
Dear Floriano, Here I am, trying my best to be as extreme as I possibly can, and then you come along and call my writing "balanced." I'm depressed now. I have written in the past that even if we could magically create the perfect politician out of thin air, Goa is beyond repair. I still think that. Manohar would be well advised to tamp down expectations. With the kind of criminals we had on the loose the past 7 years and with the damage they have inflicted on Goa, it is absurd to think that any one man can now walk in and restore its health with a magic wand of our collective fantasy. As the Americans say, not happening dude. Remember that Manohar has to carry 20+ others on his team, some of them quite nefarious in their own right. That's the political reality he has to deal with. Throw in the fact that the miners and the real estate crooks have become unimaginably wealthy and are now able to flex their financial muscle like never before. Some of these guys are close to becoming dollar billionaires. Which la-la land have Goans been living in in these past 5 years, the Goans who now expect Manohar to deliver miracles? The situation we are in ought to have happened 5 years earlier. In other words, we are 5 years too late. The cancer is now terminal. Steve Jobs found out the hard way what 9 months of delaying an operation can do. I have pared down my expectations. All I hope for is that Manohar should give it his all, in an honest and transparent manner. r --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------