[Vnbiz] Running for National Parliament (formerly: Tet and unbelievable ...)

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear CACC,

I also sent this 4 days ago, during the blackout.  Here it is again.

Have a great day!

Hoanh

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From: Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2007 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Vnbiz] Running for National Parliament (formerly: Tet and
unbelievable ...)
To: vnbiz at vietlinks.net


Dear Brother Viet & CACC,

Have a great time in Beijing, brother Viet.  You are absolutely right, The
ultimate goal is to increase the quality of members of the national assembly
and other agencies.

And the BEST way to increase quality is to increase competition.

Say, in this city there is only one Pho restaurant.  We can be sure that the
price of that Pho will be sky high and the quality sucks.  That is because
monopoly (i.e., lack of competition) brings high price and low quality.
Even if the government forces the price down (like in a government-owned
restaurant) the price may be down, but the quality still sucks.  You can
send the restaurant guys to the best culinary schools of the world, they
would still have a lousy restaurant, because being a monopoly, they see no
need to be better.

Now, if you bring 5 more restaurants into town to compete.  All of the
sudden, the old sluggish restaurant gets better (or goes out of business).
If it the guys have to go back to Pho school to learn how to do Pho
business, they will do so, just to survive and win.  You don't have to drag
them to school yourself.

Same thing with soccer.  If the country has only one soccer team (and no
foreign team comes in to play either), do you think this soccer team can be
any good?  Even if you bring them to Germany and Brazil to practice with the
best coach of the world, do you think the team will perform any better?  No
team in the world can be good if it just plays with itself.  If needs other
teams to compete, so that every team will try to be better, to win.

That is how we solve the quality issue in the economic and political
spheres.  Competition brings up quality and bring down the price.

So by bringing more competition into the National Assembly and other
government agencies, we surely will bring the quality of these agencies up.

Any brother/sister who is willing to sacrifice a bit of his/her life to run
for public offices, we will wholeheartedly support and will help with
campaigning and strategizing.  Come on, brothers and sisters, let's move!

Have a great day!

Hoanh
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On 2/27/07, Viet Tran <tranbangviet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
>
>
> Dear CACC,
>
> "I have a dream ...". A.Hoanh makes me remember Martin Luther King, the
> true man with great soul and leadership. I am fully appreciated and support
> the mission of building better future for Vietnam thru building the young
> and enthusiasm generation. Joining this election is also the good and wise
> activity.
>
> However, I think we are resolving the wrong problem. The most important
> goal is not to increase the rate of non-VCP member, but to increase the
> quality of National Assembly member and the efficiency of the NA. What will
> happen if 50% of NA is non-VCP but still not work well or event reduce the
> effectiveness?
>
> Or why we don't think that should not distinguish VCP member or non-VCP
> member?
>
> I think whenever we have younger and better quality of people, or better
> internal working process for NA, then that is a real achievement.
>
> Just some very short thoughts in the hope of triggering your discussion.
> I am personally hope one day I could do something meaningful for VN. But
> look like this time is not the right time. But if any of you run for the
> membership, I could help hugely.
>
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> Viet
> --- from Beijing
>
> On 2/27/07, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
> >
> >
> >
> >  Dear brother Quang & CACC ,
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for raising this issue, brother Quang.  It is good that the VCPhas started to talk about increasing the number of independent (non-
> > VCP ) parliament members (MPs) in the national parliament.
> >
> >
> >
> > As brother Hai mentions, I have started this issue more than a year ago
> > and have repeated a couple of times here, that we need to increase the
> > number of non- VCP MPs, and VNBIZ members should run for national
> > parliament and local agencies, such as city or provincial
> > people's committees.
> >
> >
> >
> > It is imperative for our nation to move forward well that (1) we have
> > more candidates competing for public offices and that (2) political
> > competition is increased from non- VCP members.
> >
> >
> >
> > We all understand that for our governance system to have energy and
> > skills, we need to inject more competition into the system, like two soccer
> > teams who can play soccer together (and do not engage in destructive fights
> > against each other).
> >
> >
> >
> > My proposed roadmap posted a year ago is that:  (1) We have more non-VCP MPs;
> > (2) we encourage non-VCP MPs to organize their own club.   These two
> > steps are legal under current Vietnam laws.  Eventually this non-VP MPs
> > club will become a de facto competing group, competing against the VCPin a brotherly constructive fashion.  That is how we can smoothly and
> > effectively move from here to a full democracy.
> >
> >
> >
> > I believe that our VCP brothers/sisters see this sense and will
> > encourage and support this direction.  But for the practice to work, we
> > need folks who will volunteer to run for public offices right now.
> >
> >
> > I hope you brothers/sisters see the sense in all this and start
> > promoting this idea throughout the country.  And I hope that some of you
> > will start running for offices.  If you are in VNBIZ, I am relatively
> > confident about your heart and mind.  Why not sacrifice a bit of your life
> > and run for offices to work for your people?
> >
> >
> > You can't lose when you run.  Even if you don't win, you still gain a
> > lot of enjoyment and experience, the kind of enjoyment and experience few
> > people have, and you still help increase political competition for the
> > country.  Competition itself is good, regardless of who win who lose.  Just
> > like soccer, a soccer competition on the field is good, regardless of who
> > wins who loses.
> >
> >
> >
> > I really hope that some of our VNBIZ brothers/sisters will take this
> > call seriously and will throw the hat into the ring.  Then we all will jump
> > in to help you campaign.  That would be great fun.  We need some interesting
> > project to work on once in awhile, guys. Otherwise life would be so boring.
> >
> >
> >
> > Let's look at the big picture and try to do something.
> >
> >
> >
> > Have a great day!
> >
> >
> >
> > Hoanh
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  --
> > Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
> > Attorney of Law
> > Washington DC
> >
>

-- 
Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
Attorney of Law
Washington DC
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