Would soon Breast milk be on the Supermarket Isle?

Like any other day, I was listening to the NPR and this story in its marketplace (a serial) attracted my attention and infact, I was surprised by it. There are nine breast milk banks associated with non-profit Human Milk Bank Association of North America. How it works is explained in the following article. You could either read it or listen to it.
I thought, what an altruistic work in a capitalistic country! But there is a new development that I feel is atrotious. The milk banks are selling it to a company called Prolacta and they in turn are marketing it @ $3 a milliliter.

Story on Breast Milk in NPR

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/05/16/PM200605165.html

Interesting Links

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/index.html
It feels like 1998 all over again! - This article talks about come back of the dot com bubble. I still don't see this coming. Even if that is the case, In my opnion it would take 2 years from now to burst. So if you want to play and take risks, you could do so till next year and a half.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_18/b3982001.htm
This is interesting and I can't understand how people do this?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_18/b3982075.htm
A good one.

Recently read the book "Athanaikkum Asaip padu" - Vikatan Press - Jaggi Vasudev. He takes a contrarian approach to explain the vedantic concepts. A very good one.

Whose money is it anyway?

The economy in India, esp. Tamilnadu is very good. There is not a single day passes by without a headline regarding an investment in and around Chennai (no where else...). With investment, employment grows and the government taxes as well. The only class that pays taxes in India is the working class. Those who have enough money doesn't pay (their part) anyway and the person who doesn't have anything is not bothered. In the run-up to the polls, both DMK and AIADMK announced freebies. Guess what? The front-runner of the globalization policy Mr. P. chidambaram (also fondly known as leader without any follower) subscribed to it!

Shame on the working class. Because they are the ones who have made this possible. In other parts of the world, the tax-payers dictate policies implemented by politicians. Here, the taxpayers just pay, they forget their responsibilities (they don't vote). They let the politicians dictate the policies. The tooth-less taxpayers shamelessly watch the politicians loot money from their pockets and waste money on these freebies. When the economy is good, tax revenues are better, the government should plan for policies that further that growth rather than throwing away money. So what difference is between Veerappan and these politicians? He too looted money from the haves' and gave it to the have-nots.

Thank GOD, not everyone lost their senses. There were other parties such as BJP, Vijayakanth who were against these policies. One good outcome is that Vijayakanth was able to garner enough percentage of votes (8%) even though he spoke sensible words!

There is a small light at the end of the tunnel.