Great progress

[Puneet Singh <psingh@scdt.intel.com>]

Hello everyone,

First, my apoligies to Kush for misreading the mail. I had to reread the mails
to get the sarcasm between the lines, quotes of previous mails. As an indicator,
I receive an average of ~50 mails in a day, and would appreciate conciseness.
But, I like the free flow of ideas so if I'm the bottleneck, you can ignore this.

Secondly, there seems to be some agreement shaping up on some of the topics. I
will await before we try and summarize them. After all we have only heard from
a hand few. BTW, others should feel free to raise parallel subjects for discussion.

For those expressing concern on the volumes being debated, you will agree that
we will have to substantiate our manifesto with logical reasons. We can use
much of our voices from here to formulate that.

On the compensation issue, I will try to be the devils advocate and raise the
following concern:

If I'm a poor/average man from the streets, and I as Sanjeev pointed out believe
in my needs before I can wait for the system to develop or any right moral
solution to whatever ails the society, and I represent more than 50% of the people
that live in this poverty striken society, why should I vote for a government
that takes its first step to improving the lot from the top. Why not vote for the
guy who promises me Rs2 per kg of rice? Thats my level of economics. Or worse
I vote for the guy who pays me Rs100 now.

My point being only this: in a society that is well to do and has the resources
that all can survive it is easier to implement such solutions. Even here how much are
the salaries of senators, governors etc? They have facilities but thier pay is
no where comparable to CEOs or high executives. We must remeber that an "ideal"
manifesto is of no use if its impractical.

Puneet