Friday, December 19, 2008

Courage in New York

A few days ago, I visited JFK Presidentail Museum. I knew JFK is a very attractive person before that, which is pretty shallow. Now I probably know more about why he is so attractive. I think he tried to be a courageous person as the eight senators in his book "Profiles in Courge".

I haven't have a chance to read that book. But I believe I just saw another example of courage: The budget proposal by New York State governor: David Paterson. There is an editorial on New York Times. 

To minimize the gap between budget and expense. He is willing to conflict with many interesting groups. For example, he is going to add obesity tax on non-diet soft drinks which definitely will have trouble with soft drink companies. He plans to charge one-time tax to New Yorkers who make more than 500,000 dollars a year.

I believe we need some one who is brave to take away pies from interests groups. And create a fair world. For example, public servants typically receives more bonus than those employed by private company. But they are never considered efficient comparing to most of us.

This exmaple is only a corner of an iceberg. We definitely need some people willing to change. If courage is in place, a future would be not far away.

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