From: ali@utrcv1 (ALI BABA)
Subject: Re: Your advice
Organization: United Technologies Research Center
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:55:24 GMT

In article <sehari.721457307@class1.iastate.edu>, sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes...
>---
>In <1992Nov10.180004.2400@ra.msstate.edu> eeajm@sunvis1.vislab.olemiss.edu (Movahedi Alireza) writes:
>
>>Salaam doostane garami,
>
>>One night in Mississippi when all our friends were sitting and
>>talking to each other, one of us raised a question that I
>>thought it might be interesting to raise it here in the net.
>
>>The question was "what would be your five most important advice
>>to iranian government?".
>
>>For example, someone said "I would ask the Iran's government to
>>put most of his effort into building as many sport club as
>>possible", and so on....
>
>>Please contribute if you wish.
>
>>Thanks
>>Alireza.
>
>First, I should say that they have been doing a good job so far, considering
>all the problems they have to face with.  However, these suggestions might
>be useful to better our people's prosperity.  Nevertheless,  this is just
>my own ideas; it needs to be discussed and evaluated by a group of people
>who have more specialization in economy, politics, and generally more
>experienced than me.  After all, I am too young to have such experiences.
>
>Well, my suggestion are to:
>
>Privatize,
>         Industrialize,
>                      Energize and revitalize,
>                                              Decenteralize,
>                                                             Democratize.
>
>and the most important of all
>
>    *** rationalize every step including all the above steps ***
>
>Here we go explaining these steps:
>
>1.Privatize;  however, before privatization see what should be privatized
>  and what should be kept, due to the public interests, under public custody.
>  For example, education is a case where public sector should play major
>  role.  We can not afford that even one kid to go uneducated. Even though, no
>  mater what system we choose there will be some who can not benefit from the
>  system.  Nevertheless, we should do our best to make this group as small
>  as possible.  Main while, private educational institutions should be
>  allowed to help to better educate the public.  Nonetheless, we should not
>  merely count on private sector to take all the responsibility for educating
>  our people.  This is more or less the current system in Iran, so we do not
>  need to change it.  Other things that need the help of public sector and
>  should be kept public are oil mining, health care....
>
>  Things that need to be privatized are power generation plants, telephone
>  companies, other governmental non-military factories... these have to be
>  done by sale of stock to public, and should be regulated but** not **
>  run by the government.  It should be said that the current government has
>  plans to this end, and has started to move to achieve this end.
>
>2.Industrialize:  It is obvious why we should industrialize and everybody
>  from government to the people are aware of the need for industrialization.
>  The industrialization should be on all sectors, from agriculture to
>  the semiconductor industries.  The well being of our children depends
>  on industrialization.  There are many ways that the government
>  might encourage this process.  For example, government can establish the
>  industries or buy and import the factories, and then sell it back to the
>  people by the means of stock.  As I said before, the government could buy the
>  factory say for say $100,000 and then sales 10,000 stocks at $20.00 each.
>  This way the government end up having $200,000 and now can buy two
>  factories and continue the process.  Moreover, facilities should be
>  provided to private sector, So they can do the same thing.  This way the
>  excess money in people's hand would be put in a good use and decrease
>  the inflation.
>
>  Education is another part of industrialization, we need to learn the skills
>  to run the state of the art factories, power plants...  otherwise just having
>  them does not solve our problem.
>
>  It should be mentioned that the current government is moving in this
>  direction.
>
>3. Energize and revitalize:  People need to be energized.  This could be done
>   by manipulating different human emotions. Old soviet union did this with
>   use of fear emotion.  United States Used to this by playing on the sex
>   emotion.  United State discovered the demoralization factor that playing
>   with sex emotion results, not to mentioned the deseases. Later,they switched
>   to the emotion of greed. It also has been discovered the demoralizing
>   effects of this emotion on the society. They start to go toward the emotion
>   of righthood and religious emotions by the end of Bush era, but by election
>   of Bill Clinton it is unclear at current time what path they are going to
>   take.  It should be mentioned that fear, sex, and greed are very strong
>   emotions; however the rightness and religious emotion should be reinforced
>   by some degree of the other emotions such as fear, sex, and greed.  As
>   Ali (A) said: there are three types of people who worship god.  The first
>   type is the worship of slaves, those who worship god because of the fear
>   that they might go to hell or other wise punished.  Second, those who
>   worship god for their greed for heaven or otherwise god's favor to them.
>   3rd, few who worship god because they find god worth worshiping.  One needs
>   all these groups to help rebuilt the country.
>
>   Revitalize:  the armed forces should be kept strong and with the latest
>   technology.  If we can not defend ourselves, we are doomed to become
>   another Bosnia, or philistine.  We can not depend on the world to be
>   logical all the time;  sometimes the greed emotion does not let the
>   world or other countries to be logical.  In any case, we should be able
>   to fire as hard as possible, if logic fails to prevail.  we should answer
>   each fire with equal or greater fire, my own suggestion is much greater
>   fire. -:)
>
>   Also, we should renew the technology of the current industrial,
>   educational, medical .... institutions.  Moreover, we should try
>   to change the picture of us, which is drawn by western propaganda
>   machines, and let everyone to see us in better light.  This way we can
>   attract capital and brain power, that we need to make our country no. 1
>   again.  We should take the advantage from current over supply of
>   international professionals, such as China, Soviet Union, India,
>   which are cheap and in good quality, to rebuilt our country.
>
>   Also, we might revise our foreign trade with dollars and try to issue
>   our own international money for transaction of oil and other imports.
>   So, we be able to buy with that currency and sell oil with that currency
>   only.
>
>   It should be mentioned, that some of the above is the policy of
>   the Iranian government.
>
>4.  Decenteralize:  Even though, we need a very strong central government;
>    However, many decision power should be given to the localities.For example,
>    each city government should be in charge of decision regarding garbage
>    collection, road pavement, gas pipes, ...  This gives the central
>    government more resources to concentrate on the bigger picture.  Local
>    government should be able to collect tax and get help from the central
>    government to do it's job.  Also, in my opinion it is better that local
>    officials to be elected by local people, than appointed by central
>    government.  Even though, the central government should be able to control
>    these local governments.In case they started to abuse their power and
>    jeopardize the well being of the nation in general or the local people;
>    right baby, shoot them like a dog, if they start to make problem for the
>    nation or the local people.
>
>5.  Democratize:  in this effort we should follow the China's lead and not
>    the Soviet Union.  Slow but steady progress toward democratization is much
>    better than super fast Soviet style recipe for disaster.  Let people
>    have time to digest the concept without undue stress.  This would prevent
>    our enemies to abuse this process, and create another Soviet Union or
>    Yugoslavia.
>
>As I said these were the comments of a young and inexperienced citizen.  I
>also, agree there might be some bad policies presented above.  Therefore, all
>of it should be evaluated by a group of more experienced people.  That is why
>our religion Islam ask people to make their decision with "Shora" or
>group discussions.
>
>                      With highest regards,
>                           Babak   Sehari.
>
>
>--
Baba damet garm,   Ali yaret Mr. knowledge.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in network of silver. I would like
to compliment you on a well-thought out and well written article.  It seems
like you really touched all the important issues and you left very little  
room for comments, even though, I would like to add just a few things that
came to mind.  One of the things I have often pondered, is that along with
education, just as important and closely related is physical fitness.  I   
think every able person should have access to a good sport and athletic
program as it goes hand in hand with a good education.  The many benefits
outweigh the so-called costs by reducing health problems, like obesity, and
many of the problems facing adults today and this would also give children
a sense of confidence and self-esteem, and give them goals in life to work
towards.  Once instilled at an early age it may become a habit hard to
break.  I feel this is something in which the government should subsidize.
I said subsidize because of my own experience during my years at the old
regime .  During my four years of practice at (Baeshgahe Nader) in Teheran
I came across so many talented Iranian kids in different fields, who
unfortunately had to drop out because of the lack of government support or
private sponsorship. The other field which I would like to see supported by
the government is Welfare.  Of course not a welfare system like the one
which is in the west, and getting abused by so many people, but a welfare
system that supports disabled citizens and widows and any other unfortunate
soul who is unable to work.  These are just a couple of things which
hopefully one day will be incorporated by the government in the future.
will be able to offer it to Iranian people.
We all love your articles at (sheer ali's zoore khaneh), We don't have
anything worth offering you at our (zoore khaneh) but hang around and keep
on posting your good articles and we promise to send you a couple of
complimentary tickets for 1996 Olympics.

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