I believe that people should be able to reap,
the work and effort they put into work and therefore i believe in capitalism and pure comtpetition...which is not only good for everyone to excel but for the loser he knows that is not the real place that he belongs....but then again they good and hardworking people who never seem to get a break like the rubber tappers who work really hard but never seem to be able to better the lives of their love ones..so in effect we must temper capitalism with compassion..how much and where we draw the line I leave it to the economists though some might argue that rubber tappers should quit and do something else..what else? Another problewith capitalism is that is that some people with power and influence and monewill use it so that they don't have to compete like the car parts supplier who bribe the car manufacturer's..so if playing filed is not level..and how is the poor guy with superior technology and work going to survive...this is where we need a referee..he will never be perfect but it will be much better than no referee...this is then the use of of governmentent..their duty is to ensure a level playing field..other than that they don't intervene....the referee don't kick the ball into the goal..he just runs around and thires to intervene as little as possible and get out of the way but will do it if it is necessary.....if a referee can do it..why is it so hard for elected government do it?

heh,
controlling the price of sugar? ridiculous..on one hand you are trying to get mamaks to reduce the sugar they put in their products and people to take less sugar so that there will be less cases of diabetes and on the other you are trying to keep the price of sugar artificially low....sure it wins elections but who is going to pay for health care when half the nation is diabetic?...the quickest way to reduce the amount of sugar in products and help people live a healthier lifestyle is to make something more expensive...like with cigarettes and alcohol... if they use this rationale to impose sin taxes why can't they just let market forces determine the price of sugar...why intervene to bring down the price of something that is bad for health? Sugar is definitely killing more people than cigarettes but of course lung cancer is a more glamourous disease...the worse thing is they are killed slowly so the health cost is high..whereas in lung cancer you are dead within the year....when sugar is more expensive people will use less sugar and innovative mooncake makers will won't be making mooncakes that are toos weet and before you know it they will be making mooncake for diabetics so those poor old folks won't miss out on the fun.

Hello I am back,
It has been a while...I am quite lazy to blog but I thought I better keep the thing going.....just a thing about character...in the papers a few days ago a Malaysian-born neurosurgeon was arrested for bribery....man you must be pretty smart to become a neurosurgeon in the US..it is competitive..but no matter how smart you are in the end...you can't excape from greed...and many people do stupid things because of greed...kind of sad to know parents nowadays are pushing excellence instudies and performance instead of the building the of character...give an honest man of average intelligence any day over one thousand corrupt geniuses.