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A Declaration: I will not passs critique on any movie in this post.

Now as me and a lot of my friends are all caught up in expressing our sorrow or alternatively our elation based on our geographical location since the skipper is leaving we have manged to fail to recognise the economic coup that the americans have managed to pull off here!!!!
Credit must be given where its due. Now please bear with me here as I try and explain wht the hell I am talking bout.

The americans make us cough up a lot of greens before we can land our respective hineys in the promiseland....all sorts of test fees, application fees and all the other overheads....
We are also made to pay a fee for visa application...so thereby they make a lot of money....so whats the big deal?? u ask...well here it is..
the CIA with its vast spy network spread all over the world manages to identify a "PIED PIPER", so to say, from every community. Unlike the fable however this piper belongs to the fairer sex most often than not. What they will do is through their agents coerce this pied piper to go to US.
They will grant her a Visa even though she might not have her papers in order, might be a possible immigrant and similar shortcomings. U might call it luck I can it exceptional financial acumen.
Now once the piper is seven seas away wht do the rats do??? yeah u guessed it...they will surely try and gnaw their way to US in hot pursuit. So they will go thru the whole process pay thru their noses so on and so forth until they land up at the Consulate gates. However their applications will be denied. So they will reapply and reapply and then some sa there isnt a cap any more.
This policy netted the exchequer around $ 31 billion last year and is set to go up!!!!!
So dont worry folks america is well on its way to recovery thanks to our friendly neighbourhood pied piper and her flute!!!!!!!!


Comments

Pratap said…
Nice one Mr ranade...you impress me once again....it makes perfect sense now coz all anomalies get explained and everything falls into place.

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