What this woman Vanaja says is absolutely true. Particularly in the recent months, the prices of essential commodities have been almost doubled up. The ruling parties have plenty of reasons to say, but the governing bodies don't know what starvation is. The common folk can't understand what inflation is or something related to it. This is the high time that people should understood what politics is and what are politicians. They should think and consider everything before they franchising their votes.
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Pay every adult rs 1000 a month and every child till the third rs500 a month and as in the west people will respond by having just two children each and stopping at two. If 1b cant be fed now because oil needed to fuel tractors and fertilizers , how will India feed another 1b ie 4 USA's or 1 extra China within thirty years? Arun
Probably she needs to read the book "who moved my cheese". It is a very good book. Vanaja's husband need to find a different job. In a dynamic economy, we can't have permanent jobs.
The super market that took away your husband's job is going to come to your rescue in the long term. Competition between the super market stores are heating up and soon they will start price wars.
Read WHO report - 3 weeks back. Over 100 million children in India are malnourished - highest in the world. IT and knowledge subcontracting is good for educated doesn't do squat to poor, undernourished, low caste families and especially their children. Trickle down economy is not working in India. As for NarayanMurthy, Azim Premji, blah, blah%u2026.. IT bigwigs have not done squat either! Indian PM should do something about it. He is riding high by grabbing outsourcing opportunity which was already set in course by Rajiv Gandhi and Sam Pitroda. Mr. PM has not done squat for the economy! He surely sucks! No wonder people are so tired they are putting BJP back again knowingly well that one devil goes out of the door another one will be back via window.........
Diversified Industrialization is the only way that will generate more jobs. Vanaja's problems are primarily due to her husband's loss of livelihood with the changing nature of retail. If he had a job that paid him Rs 3K a month their situation would not have degraded to this extent.
Charity or taxation is not the key. Key is government policies that allows growth at all levels and protect local interests to some extent that may be challenged by cheap imports. All the developed countries are far more protectionist in reality than they would like to portray.
It is an irony indeed that even with such price increases for the agricultural goods, the farmers are committing suicides due to dramatic fall in the relative value of the farm income. Interesting, even in the US, agriculture is not very profitable and survives due to huge subsidies and cheap foreign labor.
Our complaints about the system corrupted by politicians fall on deaf ears. We often read about established organizations and the rich guys paying enormous amounts to Charity which may or most likely never reach the needy.
People need to become proactive members of the town/city they reside in. They can help struggling families, aged seniors, special needs family by adopting neighborhoods collectively (ie become a member of a group) to donate to special Ration Centres, not the govt owned/operated ones but rather set up, operated and managed by colonies and neighbourhoods themselves to provide for needy families that do not line up for charity. Not only would the men idling in the nukkads find a job they would also serve their own mohallahs and ppl like this fine lady wouldn't have to suffer a terrible day without her normal dose of chaai.
