From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Re: AIDS in Iran
Originator: sehari@class1.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:31:47 GMT

In <1992Dec16.061924.19537@wam.umd.edu> ahriman@wam.umd.edu (Salman Rushdie) writes:

>In article <1992Dec15.220525.7536@ra.oc.com> karim@hp835.mitek.com (Karim Sharif) writes:
>>In article <e0ut02PB2eIh01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> bxm50@pars.amdahl.com (Ben Mahjoor) writes:
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe, one of the best ways to control this problem from entering Iran
>>>> is to test everyone, who enters Iran.  If one found to be positive,
>>>> she/he should be sent to quarantine, in case he/she is Iranian, otherwise
>>>> deny entery to him/her.  Other measure could be mandatory Aids testing
>>>> of all the people on the yearly bases, and infected people should be send
>>>> to quarantine.  I know it is expensive, but it is effective.
>>>> 
>>>> Finally, maybe a High tax (some where around %90 of income) on all the 
>>>> un-married people over 21 could force our people to lower their expectations 
>>>> and get married.  This money should be returned to them if they get married
>>>> within 3 years.  Off course, this might lead to high divorce rate.  Therefor,
>>>> the marriages that last less than 10 years, should return all the previous
>>>> years tax reduction and repay signal tax rate (%90) for all those years.
>>>> Also, other social privileges of a signal person might be subject to
>>>> suspension, such as drivers license, ..., if this does not reduce the
>>>> signal rate over 21 by  %90.  I guess, someone should become bad again,
>>>> to save our society.
>>>> 
>>>>                       With highest regards,
>>>>                             Babak   Sehari.
>>>
>>>

>How in the world did you come up with this stuff. Who's going to pay their rent?
>You. Are you aware of the cost of living in Iran or are you just talking "az
>rooyeh shikam". If some poor guy is making 10,000 tomans and rents are running
>around 30,000-50,000 how in the world do you expect him to manage a family.
>When meat is 600 tomans/kilo. Presently even the guys who want to get married 
>can't because they can't afford it. Prostitution has gone up as a result. And 
>of course even some of the guys that are married sleep with prostitutes. So
>marriage doesn't mean anything when it comes to that.

Hey man, this is nothing new.  Even in United States Single tax rate is higher
than married people.  The same way that they live right now they can continue
to live, that is the girl could stay with her parents and the boy with his
parents, until they can afford a place of their own.  Remember, Iran is not
the only country in the world with economic problems.  At the current world
stage, almost every country has problem.  United States, which is relatively
better off from many European countries, has people sleeping in the streets,
Garbage cans, ... England, Germany,... all have their own problems.  As mater
of fact, in the old days they used to live with either the girl's parents or
the guy's parents.  This type of life style even is practiced in Japan, US,
Soviet Union, etc...

My parents stayed in my father's father ( my grand father) house for more than
12 years after they got married.  Even though, they could afford place of
their own; the fact that both my father and my mother were working at that
time, it was convenient for them to have my grand mother to take care of
the kids in the morning.  Even it was more fun life when my parents and
grand parents were living together than when they got their own house.  I
remember as a protest gesture, I used to stay more in my grand parents house
and my parents have to drag me to their house for many years.

It is good to live in a villa in south of France if you can afford it,
otherwise you should do with a small shared apartment.  That's why I am saying
that expectation are too high.

Moreover, I believe the government is doing what it can to improve the
economy.  As a result, the economy has highly improved since the end of war.
Now if you have some suggestion on how to improve the economy even faster
let everyone know, so everyone can discuss it on the newsgroup.  However,
I do not think the right solution is to tell everyone to stay single until
they can afford a villa in north of Iran!  I do not think making a Yugoslavia
or a Lebanon out of our mother land could improve things, either.

                          With highest regards,
                               Babak   Sehari.

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