This is a
comment in response to an article on the Huffington Post,
Since
when if ever, was making money or being rich such a crime in this so called
land of opportunity, liberty, prosperity and freedom. A lot of people here
spend a great deal of their lives and their days far away from things like
entertainment and mainstream media, they are usually up against the wall, very
busy working hard and meticulously investing their time, energy, efforts,
planning and resources towards their futures. The last few years have been very
tough on a lot of Americans. It is really sad to say that a lot of wealthy
American investors have been forced to pay a hefty price for unwise decisions,
policies, mismanaged funds and a changing country that has on several fronts become
needlessly over regulated, unreliable and unattractive to anyone with a
reasonable amount of justified fear, common sense and wisdom.
Your main focus
should be to commit resources and invest in highly essential priorities like
education and infrastructure and make things as feasible and as beneficial as
possible to businesses and supporting industries. Your main focus should be to
collaborate and work with homegrown industries and facilitate in making America
as attractive, productive, yielding and safe as possible for investors and
businesses. You can't waste away precious time and resources on unrealistic
strategies like excessive governance, short term stimulus, all the pointless
projects that go with it and so many of these highly publicized attempts
at job creation. These are sensible steps in the right direction but
unfortunately they are not in line with what has made America prosperous
historically. At times the environment, sentiments and trends are as such that
it feels like you are living in a new country if not an entirely different
place altogether. In other words on account of such negligence and complacence
the country has needlessly slipped away and changed to such an extent that the
average enterprising businessman, wealthy investor and the rest of the best of
America's very own by products are all being forced to shy away or flee and
find alternatives and a future offshore.
I sincerely hope and wish that people would learn to criticize and
examine someone to expose their realistic capacity and abilities to conduct
office and to do a reasonable job. Trying to sway or manipulate the emotions of
the masses and potential voters based on deliberately disparaging and
inaccurate presentations, prejudice and uncivilized passive aggressive hate
won't work with the average educated or hardworking American who uses his brain
and can think for himself. All this here article proves is that he has done
well for himself and his family and is unlike many others who have abandoned
ship and forfeited their citizenship. A person like that would succeed no
matter what. The only big question off course has to do with his plans for the
future and his level of commitment to America and its people. Are they family enough? Regardless
of our personal opinions and tastes we must strive to wish all candidates well
but the only desperate appeal at this point is to ensure the whole process is
unbiased and fair. I know this expectation is perhaps a little too much to ask
of some of the sections of the media and the way they are playing their
strategies this election. This is understandably big fodder for those who love
to sensationalize and extract stories for all they are worth. Please do not
forget to engage in a bit of honest journalistic work because it is a part of
your moral responsibility and obligation towards this country, its people and
their future. There are always great pros and cons to such critical issues. The
next four years will definitely be a sensitive phase and a critical turning
point for this country. You live with the choices you make. Being sensible,
thoughtful and mindful of how you, your actions and what you put out there can
impact the outcome is the least that one can expect at this stage.
I Wish You All the very Best. God Bless :)
~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan