The dog likes to chew on the bone. The bone is hard to break and when it does, the crack is jagged and sharp. Quick to cut the tongue and lips to bleeding.

I was 20 younger then. And teaching a professional subject to working executives. Professionals must know the laws. My students did not need social laws which I know not. Rather the need is of laws of nature. Of mechanics. Physics. These laws are simple to see and easy to understand.

If you jump from the roof of the building, you fall straight down taking the shortest distance to reach the ground. Natural laws won't state you will surely die on hitting the ground.

Straight down. The shortest distance from top to bottom. That is the law.

Professionals need to be guided by laws. The teacher or lecturer assist the students by telling them about the laws. Laws generally tells us what will happen. It does not tell us what we should or should not do. If we do something which is against the law, we will fall, from the top to the bottom. Like jumping from building top without a parachute. You could end up splattered on the ground.

Professionals are all citizens. So they must abide by the laws of nation. Such laws, most citizens do not know. Professionals included.

Except those in the legal profession. These people spend years studying the laws which runs to thick books governing every action. There is even laws governing where you should pee.

The laws as known by citizens are not straight lines. Every law is crocked. The law is not a guide-line. Not a path for people to walk upon.

A law is a mixture of walls and barriers. In some places, their laws are like fish bones. And in a very special place, the laws are like the shells and bones of the crab. The meat is the people. The laws control the people within the confines of the shell. And prevents people from going beyond the bones. Prevent contacts between meat mass and mass. The result is everyone is contained inside an enclosure of laws. Like living inside a box.

Each year more laws are passed. And naturally, all laws are related. Linked. Intersecting. The crab grows an ever hardenining shell. And the bone structures within the shell gets finer and denser. The crab become tougher. And completely resists change of any sort. 
Worse for citizen is that the laws are transparent. Means you cannot see them. You can only feel them. They are like force-fields in sci-fi stories. You cannot pass through the laws even though your eyes tell you there is none.

The young can afford to think only of tomorrow or even the next hour. Not because he has no brain or wisdom to ponder great possibilities. But because he has plenty of time  and energies to correct his errors.
The oldhead is  has no physical power. Even less time to play with. So he must fully use his wisdom. Think fast. And decide faster. Decide on distant futures. Like 5 years ahead. Cannot afford to think of tomorrow or the next meal. The wise, old head takes tomorrow for granted. And knows damned bloody well, he would survive never mind he has money to buy his next meal or not.
Since an old one knows he surely will live for another donkey's ear, why should he bother to even think of the future? There is only one end to everyone's life. Death.
Eh! Please do not say that. A person who thinks life leads to death is a defeatist. A burden to himself. To family. To society. Even the pig never contemplates death, that is why on his death, his whole  body becomes meat to feed the living.
Life is to do business. Doing business means serving others and in return we get paid. The wise one decides to serve first and let the beneficiaries decide on the quantum to pay. Later.

There is a pig who manipulate others such that he gets paid exorbitant prices. His tool is fear of death. He is very foolish indeed. Because even vegetarians like the goat will eat the flesh of his corpse while still warm.

Business? OK. Here is a brilliant business idea.
Run a free general service organisation for about 150,000 customers. General service means listening to what the customers need. And then counselling them to forget what they want. Or write letters on their behalf to the gods. Simple business in which a staff can process 40 customers per hour. Free service so naturally customers will queue up all day long. 
You like this simple business objective? But you don't know what it is and how to get it done. Here. Let me tell you.
A bunch of scratchers here is going to contest in a GRC in 2011. A 5 or 6 person GRC. Best is to target Tg Pag... where the incumbent will be 88. Say 6 scratchers, averaged age each 65. That is younger than him. But matured too. Each should have been boss for some years so knows how to run business that does not make profits. And can run the losses with efficiency and system.
Being senior in age does not go well with young voters. Particularly females. So each scratcher will be supported by 1 young man and 1 young woman. Aged between 21 to 30. Must reside in a HDB flat in the constituency. These young ones will be the driving force. They shall be designated AMP, assistant mp.

All MPs and AMPs work full time in this business of serving designated customers. But of course only the MPs will represent the customers in parliament. 

If this plan goes well, the GRC will be serviced by 5 MPs and 10 AMPs assistants.

Salaries?
A MP's salary is now 13k pm. This would be same in '11. So a scratching MP will get 13K. Being old, the scratcher would be thrilled to keep only 3k out of the 13k. And each of his assistant will get 5k. Surely the young AMPs would work their guts out to please the constituents for 5 years.

Hi folks! This space is designed for scratchers. I am one of the scratchers. In fact, I am the founder of this blog. You can see my pix on the right. I am quite old but I don't look it. So now you know what a scratcher is, I hope.
There are lots of scratchers in this world. And I certainly cannot accept them into this blog. So here I set limit.	DATAR

1. Will let this blog have 6 authors.
2. A scratcher should be a Dog, by birth or by declaration.
3. Be a professional or failed a few times as a boss.
4. Has family, children and possibly grandchildren.

And here is the objective of the scratchers.

The scratchers will do their best to talk of a better life for everybody. The scratchers  will  bark and howl  louder when doused with hot water or singed by gas-lighters.

 Wondering why the name SCRATCHER?  Did you notice that old, stray dog lying by the foot path? If you did, you will find the resting dog always scratches the area around its genitals. The old bitches do the same too.