January 11, 2007

PUBLIC FINANCE CLASS: INCOME SUPPORT FOR THE POOR

Who is poor? In Kosova, If you live with less than 94 cents a day, then you are extremely poor. This constitutes about 15% of the population. If you make 42 euros monthly, then you are poor (1.42euros daily). 40% of the population are in this group.
This is according to the professor, who deals with these statistical data from the ministries. During the lesson, Ereblina, a friend of mine, showed me this book she received as a gift, titled: " Transcendental Meditation" by Maharashi Mahesh Yogi, a guy who thinks that the state of man is joy. A passage on economis said that economics should be perfected if it could create an abundance of materials, not distributing the ones that are already scarce. Can we make more oil, or other resources? Probably not, but that does not mean that we cannot use other renewable resources and replace the scarce resources with some other more abundant one. This is quite a thought by Maharashi Mahesh Yogi. He also stated that even If the man had all the material wealth, he would still not be happy. That's when the Transcendental Meditation comes into question. He sparked the whole Transcendental Meditation Movement. Beach Boys, Beatles, Clint Eastwood and David Lynch are few of the million practicioners. Neat.

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