In 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy was running for president and he gave a moving critique on the economic measures that were taking place at that time and applies to today.

" Gross Domestic Product does not allow for the health of our children,

the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the

beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages,

the intelligence of our public debate,

or the integrity of our public officials.

It measures everything,

in short,

except that which makes life worthwhile,

and it can tell us everything about America,

except why we are proud that we are Americans."

I thought it was really interesting that he spoke about GDP in this way, but what the author said keeps us all in check, even politicians.

The author writes :

Much of what Robert Kennedy says is correct. Why then do we care about GDP?

The answer is that a large GDP does in fact help us to lead a good life.

GDP does not measure the health of our children, but nations with

larger GDP can afford better health care for their children.

GDP does not measure the quality of their education,

but nations with larger GDP can afford better educational systems.

GDP does not measure the beauty of our poetry,

but nations with a larger GDP can afford to teach more of their

citizens to read and to enjoy poetry.

GDP does not take account of

our intelligence,integrity,courage,wisdom,or devotion to country,

but all of these laudable attributes are easier to foster

when people are less concerned about being able to

afford the material necessities of life.

GDP does not directly measure those things that make life worthwhile,

but it does measure our ability to obtain the inputs into a worthwhile life.

-N. Gregory Mankiw

So what do you guys think?

Ahmed Bukhatir -Ya Ommie (My mother)

**http://youtube.com/watch?v=SMlLqY9mwKs

This gave me goosebumps.
A moving song.

When will this semester end?
It has been soo long and soo dragged out, its driving me crazy. Im so sick of my classes. Khalas, ENOUGH ALREADY. I really like my proffessors, but I cant bear going to class listening to anymore lectures.
I'm soo out of it, that anything that comes out of the proffessors mouth sounds like "blah,blah,blah.blah".

not only that, our finals start AFTER eid break. Thats around JANUARY 11TH !!!!
I mean COME ON. JUST LET US TAKE THE TESTS NOW.

meh.

The last few weeks have been busy,busy,busy that my weekends are just not enough to chill and relax.

But im soo glad that I had soo much fun during the nationday day break. :)
I have a link of the right side where you can see the pictures mj and I took during the break (and other weekends).

We wanted to upload them on here, but it took forever and made our blogs slower. So take a look, enjoy and comment :)

Its a shame that we used flickr, i hate flickr. I hope it doesnt turn into those typical flickr accounts where people comment "cute" or "nice job" or "keep it up sis"

-stab stab-

anywho

Update:

My blog has been under some maintance, i'll be posting regularly inshallah :)
Im adding something new to my blog. I want to try this out.

*btw this template is temporary


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