Barack Obama

Hey guys,

Do you guys remember the famous Hollywood flick ‘The independence day’? What am I saying...everybody remembers that movie, it was AWESOME! Many of us grew up dreaming of becoming an air force pilot just so that we could kick some alien butt!! But what i am getting at is, do you remember the scene where all these foolish blonds and young guns gather at the top of a high rise building to ‘welcome’ these aliens into their lives and what not! The aliens kill them all with what can only be described as a giant laser beam from the mother space ships’ ass!

The point i want to make is i feel we Indians are also behaving the same way like the blonds in the flick for the past couple of weeks and the end result (though not complete annihilation) might be disastrous.

Yes i am talking about Barack Obama’s win in the presidential election in US earlier this month. Why are we Indians jumping in joy? Fine it’s made history, you know, the first black man as the president, a real young gun who means to do his country a great good,a true victory of the people across the country and blah blah...!!

With the United states being in the worst economic slump since 1979 can Obama take measures to reduce the software outsourcing to India and reduce visas for Indian software engineers so that Americans don’t have to lose their jobs? Yes he can and has made promises during his campaign to minimize the damage as much as possible!

He has already promised to come out with protectionist policies to divert job flow from poorer countries to America! He can act against the India for building up the Forex reserves and make sure that the Indian rupee remains weaker than the USD. For those lacking much financial knowledge (including me! )

It has been a noted fact in world politics that India has always had better political relations with the US when republicans are in power. Bill Clinton can be considered an anomaly in this but frankly what good did he do us? (Except probably spice up our lives with all his scandals! lol). The democrats are known for their protectionist and tougher policies when it comes to nuclear non-proliferation. So does this mean more hurdles in the path of our Indo-US nuke deal? Time will tell.

So this was aimed at the huge section of our innocent” janta” who’ll believe anything. Please keep your eyes open!!

PS: a lot of help was taken from the articles by Mr. Swaminathan Aiyar(whom i adore and would have been totally on board with, only if it wasn’t for the way he chooses to write ‘our’ surname! Lol)