Picture Preach Cheaters of Our Modernizing World!

Many of you may not have understood what I meant by the phrase picture preach cheater or ppc in short. But picture preaching is not a thing that is too strange a phrase after all. Picture preaching has been a common method used by Christian preachers and missionaries for the last several decades. I remember listening to such a preacher, preaching with audio visual projections of artistic images created on the basis of the book titled Pilgrim's Progress (the christian allegory of John Bunyan published in 1678), during my childhood.

But I am not going to write about such preachers.

I am going to write about another kind of picture preachers who essentially cheat the gullible public using all sorts of audio visual tools of modern era. They cheat every one very cleverly by their tactics, networks and cleverness. 

They are the picture preach cheaters of economics, trade and business of modern era!

They are the modern day opinion makers and social media glitterati who keep preaching with their artistic pictures and stereo voices about various aspects of human trade, business and economic policies of the governments. 

They are all paid preachers who are paid for disguised cheating of the masses. They are paid in millions, perhaps hundreds of times more than the average earning of any average income earner of modern era who toils hard to earn his livelihood.

But the preachers preach for their masters to make quick money in billions without much toils which in reality is a cut from the earnings of the millions of hardworking people of the world. And these picture preachers are nicely remunerated.

The modus operandi is simple. The masters first spend money to make some ordinary fellows with some preaching and teaching abilities and promote them as glittering personalities. They purposefully make the world know about the millions that these preachers earn per hour of their preaching so that the common man wonder and adore them for their super human abilities of knowledge and preaching. 

The common folks just cannot digest that someone could be paid such extravagant sums unless they have some superior abilities. The common folks are always ignorant of the clever tactics that the cheats keep experimenting on them! Though they are always victims of the so called advertisements, they can never understand how advertisements be-fool them!

That way the masters of the business world make the so called celebrities of the economic world, the picture preach cheaters, who keep trying to influence the common folks about business and economic dynamics of the modern world.

Their combined efforts make all the difference in the economic scenario of the nations. Their efforts could make a practically non existent mushroom company to be viewed as much more valuable than a company which has been consistently doing a good economic activity for decades creating much worth for its employees, clients and stake holders. 

This way hard earned wealth and the efforts of all hard working people are made worth less or futile within a short time with money flowing to worthless entities. The economic principles are thrown out in place of newly invented financial jargon as promoted by the picture preach cheaters.

The picture preacher cheats of economics and finance are the ones who make the modern day share trade to flourish in such a way that it sweeps all the money generated by hard working people in the farms, in the factories and in many other places. 

The modern era financial world now has become the play ground of the cheating masters and their cheating preachers. The masters acquire and sell companies and make profits in billions overnight with the help of the picture preach cheaters while the people of those companies work hard day and night to make all these possible without ever getting any benefits. Perhaps they are cheated and deprived!

It seems much easier for these picture preach cheaters to influence the governments to make their policies of economics, finance, trade and taxation favoring what the former want to achieve.

I have written about some aspects of this modern trend in some articles earlier too. [Read the article on plutocracy ]  

  

Indian Union Budget 2014: Is it Anything Different From Previous Years?

The new Finance Minister of India, Shri Arun Jaitley had already finished his task of reading the budget proposal for 2014-15.

Many of us would not be interested to read the whole thing what he had read out. We know now what it means for us the ordinary individual tax payers. 

Perhaps the business people have to spend some time with their tax lawyers and consultants to understand the implications of taxation affecting their respective business ventures.

For some it could be beneficial, and for some it could mean some loss and problems.

If you are interested, you may have a look in to the whole text of the budget speech of July 10th 2014 by opening it in the Hindu website using this link. 

Unfortunately, the FM has not found it worth while to address the problems of the ordinary individual tax payers to undertake the mandatory e- filing of  the income tax returns that I had written an year ago. 

As with the FM's of the previous UPA regime, he too did not think it prudent to remove some of the ridiculous I-T provisions that got introduced in the earlier years. 

He and his team also did not find it worth while to eliminate the requirements of tax return filing for the salaried class and pensioners. 

Neither there was any thoughts on making some progressive steps by removing the regressive taxation and going for some other progressive methods to raise government income such as the alternatives some financial experts and thinkers have suggested. 

So in short the budget speech of 2014 followed the essential format and frame work of the budget speeches of the past with some changes here and there. It was fundamentally the same as in the previous years!

But perhaps the FM could not have done better than this, given the short time of just a couple of months that he could get to do the work.

To make any drastic changes in the legacy of the existing system, one has to do much painful exertion which most people would not like to do. 

Who would like to antagonize the officers and staff of the ministry and their departments? Change is always painful and cause resistance. 

What Are The Essential Precautions to be taken by Modern People to Prevent their Governments to Hamper Progress?

The following is a commentary with an advice given by one invisible member of the universe administration keeping a watch on the evolutionary progress of human beings of earth, to those modern day humans who have attained reasonably higher levels of maturity and intellectual capacities: 

“The great struggle in the evolution of government has concerned the concentration of power. The universe administrators (consisting of the members of the invisible beings under the authority of God) have learned from experience that the evolutionary peoples on the inhabited worlds (such as your world, earth) are best regulated by the representative type of civil government when there is maintained proper balance of power between the well-co-ordinated executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

“While primitive authority was based on strength, physical power, the ideal government (for human like beings) is the representative system wherein leadership is based on ability. (Remember) in the days of barbarism (of the past centuries) there was entirely too much war to permit representative government to function effectively.

“In the long struggle between division of authority and unity of command, the dictator won. The early powers of the primitive council of elders (in your world) were gradually concentrated in the person of the absolute monarch. After the arrival of real kings, the groups of elders persisted as quasi-legislative-judicial advisory bodies. Later on (as it stands now), legislatures of co-ordinate status made their appearance, and eventually supreme courts of adjudication were established separate from the legislatures.

"In the past, (in the majority of your nations) the king was the executor of the mores, the original or unwritten law. Later he enforced the legislative enactments, the crystallization of public opinion. A popular assembly as an expression of public opinion, though slow in appearing, marked a great social advance ( in your world)

"(Your) early kings were greatly restricted by the tradition or public opinion. In recent times some of your  nations have codified these traditions into documentary bases (known as constitutions) for the governments (to function).

"You are entitled to liberty; you should create your systems of government. You should adopt your constitutions or other charters of civil authority and administrative procedure.

"And having done this, you should select your most competent and worthy fellows as chief executives.

"For representatives in the legislative branch you should elect only those who are qualified intellectually and morally to fulfill such sacred responsibilities.

"As judges of your high and supreme tribunals (and courts) only those who are endowed with natural ability and who have been made wise by good experience only should be chosen.

"If you wish to maintain your freedom and good systems of government you must document your constitution properly and ensure that the provisions of the same are wisely, intelligently and fearlessly interpreted in such a way that the following are prevented from happening:

1. Concentration and use of unwarranted power by any one branch of your government

2. Crafty plots and ideas of ignorant and superstitious people

3. Retardation of scientific progress.

4. Dominance of average and mediocre people in key positions of administration

5. Domination by vicious minority groups of your peoples

6. Control of government by ambitious and clever would-be dictators.

7. Disasters and disruptions of your systems by unnecessary panic.

8. Exploitation of your people by some unscrupulous people among you.

9. Taxation enslavement of the citizenry by the state.

10. Failure of social and economic fairness.

11. Influence and control of your governments by your religious groups

12. Acts that prevent justified personal liberty.

"The above should be the purposes and aims of constitutional tribunals acting as governors upon the systems of your representative governments. It applies not only to you earth peoples, but also to all evolutionary peoples of all worlds in the universe.

"Mankind's struggle to perfect government on earth has to do with perfecting channels of administration, with adapting them to ever-changing current needs, with improving power distribution within government, and then with selecting such administrative leaders as is truly wise.

"While there is a divine and ideal form of government, the same cannot be revealed to you now. It is divinely mandated that humans of earth and all other such planets discover and adapt the ideal form of government slowly by their own experience and wisdom during the course of their progressive evolution forward".