tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202630.post109847660962835012..comments2023-06-23T16:13:12.577+03:00Comments on Neeka's Backlog: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202630.post-1098668652595926002004-10-25T05:44:00.000+04:002004-10-25T05:44:00.000+04:00The first story reminds me of an artist that used ...The first story reminds me of an artist that used to work for us. She had gone to a Catholic girl's school while growing up. She was a wild child. She told me that she had one broken into the sacramental wine one night not long before summer break. The nuns shaved her head as punishment, which she had to deal with all summer. When she got home she found that her family had given away her cat. So the story went.<br /><br />DonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202630.post-1098539248333802072004-10-23T17:47:00.000+04:002004-10-23T17:47:00.000+04:00The NYT is watching you, Neeka! They're watching ...The NYT is watching you, Neeka! They're watching me too. I don't get anything interesting like Russian ads (I get those from you), I get ads from my local politicians. They don't know that I'd rather read the ads you see than the local ones I already know about.<br /><br />My two cents: I am an authoritarian socialist when it comes to natural resources. Natural resources belong to the collective and profits from them should 1) offset any taxes that would be otherwise be collected because the money should go directly into the governments accounts. Unless the collective owns the resource, you get taxed twice -- once when you give it to oil companies and again when you pay at the pump 2) revenue generated from collective resources needs to be allocated for collective needs which are not taken care of by "free market" forces: teacher's salaries; public health services; preservation of green space. <br /><br />The public's trust is placed in governments to manage resources for on its own behalf, not for the benefit of private enterprise. That is one very Russian idea that I subscribe to whole heartedly here in the United States. Ideas flow around the world like international currencies. We have British Petroleum pumping oil out of Alaska for a few dollars on the barrel. And they get to turn around and charge me again when I gas up my car? Whose oil is it?Servanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15951093853997974742noreply@blogger.com