Happy 2010 New Year
Please accept my best wishes for the New Year. This is a season when many
of us take stock of our past, while we also plan for the future.
Its time to usher in the New Year in style. New Year is one occasion that is
celebrated all over the world, irrespective of religion or country. A New
Year marks a new beginning, a new life, an opportunity to start our lives
all over again. It’s that time of the year, when people make resolutions
that range from debt reduction and weight loss, to quit smoking, staying fit
and stop drinking.
In order to think about the future, we first need a clear idea about our
potential in the context of global economy. America will never be a
competitor of China with regard to low-cost labor. And we do not intend to
be a country of cheap labor. We are going to be a country of highly skilled,
educated and well-paid people. Programming, research and development
services, science, culture, market of highly qualified professionals – these
are areas in which we can surely be strong competitors. Nobody is able to
say today what will become “wonder drugs” of tomorrow’s economy.
Genetics, new browsers or anything else – our science, our production and
our people must be ready to provide services and ensure knowledge for
introduction and development of these technologies. Therefore we must invest
in our children in order to provide best education and training at every
stage.
Our position in the world will depend upon the quality our education system.
Our excellence will depend upon excellence of our schools.
Let us try, in a new time and in a new way, to restore this concept of
politics. Let us teach ourselves and others that politics should be an
expression of a desire to contribute to the wellness of the community
rather than of a need to cheat or rape the community. Let us teach ourselves
and others that politics can be not simply the art of the possible,
especially if this means the art of speculation, calculation, intrigue,
secret deals and pragmatic maneuvering, but that it can also be the art of
the impossible, that is, the art of improving ourselves and the world
Our main enemy today is our own bad traits: indifference to the common good,
vanity, personal ambition, selfishness, and rivalry. The main struggle will
have to be fought on this field
There are free elections and an election campaign ahead of us.
Let us not allow the desire to serve ourselves to bloom once again under the
stately garb of the desire to serve the common good. It is not really
important now which party, or group prevails in the elections. The important
thing is that the winners will be the best of us, in the moral, civic,
political and professional sense, regardless of their political
affiliations. The future policies and prestige of our America will depend on
the personalities we select, and later, elect to our representative bodies.
Wherever you celebrate New Year 2010, may the love, peace, and warmth of the
New Year be yours always.
