Tuesday, May 10, 2011

aam admi jai ho! 90% of indian villagers living on <$1 a day

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Huh,
How is this possible? The poverty pimps keep moving these numbers. According to the latest numbers from the poverty inc. Industry, 33% of Indians live on less than $1 a day. If this 90% figure is right, and if 70% of Indians live in villages, then it would mean that 63% of Indians live on less than $1 a day. So which is it? Lol, next they will say 101% of Indians live on less than $1 a day.

Pagan said...

A nation whose leader stoops to lies so as to harbor a criminal is simply doomed. Just getting him to lie was a smart move on Advani's part.

When Advani asked Musharraf to handover Dawood
Musharraf, his unease palpable, replied assertively: ‘Mr. Advani, let me tell you emphatically that Dawood Ibrahim is not in Pakistan.’

Later, one of the Pakistani officials who was present during the meeting, said to me, ‘What our President said about Dawood Ibrahim on that day was a white lie.’

Pagan said...

Islamabad Was To Protest As Per Deal With US

Under the terms of the pact, Pakistan would allow US forces to conduct a unilateral raid inside its territory to look for bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri and the al-Qaeda No 3. The Pakistanis, it was agreed, would protest strongly against the 'incursion,' for public consumption.

The disclosure by British daily, The Guardian, was based on interviews of serving and retired American and Pakistani government officials.

(Post worthy, Rajeev)

non-carborundum said...

Statistics notwithstanding, most Indians do live crappy lives. But like ot or not, failure to control population has something to do with it. The poorest strata and Muslims keep multiplying like there's no tomorrow and Hindu middle class India has a fertility rate of less than 2. (I have no studies to back this up, but it is evident.)

If we're screwed at the macro level, we're even more screwed at the micro level. Demographic dividend is nonsense. Law of Malthus will prevail.

Pagan said...

Guardian Link
The former US official said the Pakistani protests of the past week were the "public face" of the deal. "We knew they would deny this stuff."

The agreement is consistent with Pakistan's unspoken policy towards CIA drone strikes in the tribal belt, which was revealed by the WikiLeaks US embassy cables last November. In August 2008, Gilani reportedly told a US official: "I don't care if they do it, as long as they get the right people. We'll protest in the National Assembly and then ignore it."

Julian said...

"Law of Malthus will prevail."

Funny because the last 2 centuries shows the exact opposite.

South Korea has a higher population density than India as does Israel (most of it is desert), yet they are much more prosperous than India.

Overpopulation hysteria and family planning propaganda will ultimately cause the next partition because only Hindu fools follow it not the Muslims.