Tomorrow's strikes

[Spacecadet]

Surely economic success has to come before helping the poor, or else how can the country reach the position where it can feed the poor without external help.
If India was to shelve those projects it would be damaging it's long term economic prospects and end up being more reliant on charitable donations.

[cailin maith]

Surely economic success has to come before helping the poor, or else how can the country reach the position where it can feed the poor without external help.
If India was to shelve those projects it would be damaging it's long term economic prospects and end up being more reliant on charitable donations.

I might be being blonde here but how does a space programme and nuclear weapons improve the economic prospects of a country like India? To me, the only reason they have the weapons anyway is to have a willy waving contest with Pakistan who also should be spending that money where it is needed not on weapons.

[Spacecadet]

I might be being blonde here but how does a space programme and nuclear weapons improve the economic prospects of a country like India? To me, the only reason they have the weapons anyway is to have a willy waving contest with Pakistan who also should be spending that money where it is needed not on weapons.

Agreed, they are not as economically important as a new shipping port but It's all "making stuff" and providing a solid base of technical expertise which will cross pollinate into other industries and gives companies wishing to invest in India the confidence that the right staff with the right experience can be sourced locally (at much cheapness).

Plus, given the size and population of India, I doubt that the combined space and nuclear budgets, if diverted, would actually make that much of a dent in to the poverty problem.

[DimPrawn]

I might be being blonde here but how does a space programme and nuclear weapons improve the economic prospects of a country like India? To me, the only reason they have the weapons anyway is to have a willy waving contest with Pakistan who also should be spending that money where it is needed not on weapons.

Make love, not war.



I'm free Friday at 4.00pm?

[cailin maith]

Agreed, they are not as economically important as a new shipping port but It's all "making stuff" and providing a solid base of technical expertise which will cross pollinate into other industries and gives companies wishing to invest in India the confidence that the right staff with the right experience can be sourced locally (at much cheapness).

Plus, given the size and population of India, I doubt that the combined space and nuclear budgets, if diverted, would actually make that much of a dent in to the poverty problem.

I guess so.

Make love, not war.



I'm free Friday at 4.00pm?

Sorry fish face, I'm washing my hair.