RE: POVERTY IN INDIA

["Dr. Sanjeev Sabhlok" <sanjeev@sabhlokcity.com>]

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At 05:56 AM 7/3/00, "Indrajit Barua" <indrajitbarua@philosophers.net>
wrote:

>India need not be poor. For this, we have to minimize govt. controls on
>every sphere of our life. Thereby, corruption will be automatically reduced
>to more manageable levels. The vast army of bureaucrats who are taking away
>the money meant for our development has to be downsized -- but who will
>bell the cat? During the last two years of BJP rule, employment in the
>Central Govt. has actually INCREASED by 100,000 !! Freebies (at our cost)
>are also being given away to those very people who do not work but consume
>our wealth.

True. Citizens and tax-payers have to organize themselves.

>The curse of India has been socialism, which tried to distribute wealth
>without first creating it.

Only partially true. We also distribute SIX times more wealth each year in
an inappropriate manner than that needed to eradicate poverty.

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