Reply to: Tomorrow's strikes

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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]

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.

[Sysman]

Perhaps Kirit in Chennai could ask the Indian government to spend more on the poor and less on nuclear weapons and space programmes, and then get back to us with the answer.

And the rest

I recently saw adverts for a charity wanting money for a hospital in Mumbai (or was it Banglaore?).

[TimberWolf]

Perhaps Kirit in Chennai could ask the Indian government to spend more on the poor and less on nuclear weapons and space programmes, and then get back to us with the answer.

And the rest

[DimPrawn]

Perhaps Kirit in Chennai could ask the Indian government to spend more on the poor and less on nuclear weapons and space programmes, and then get back to us with the answer.

[SimonMac]

Comment on daily mail website:



Read more: Public sector strike: Riot police braced for violence across UK | Mail Online

Jebus, what will they ask for next, our jobs?!

[Jog On]

Outsource all the teaching to India. Infact, send all our kids to India would probably be the best thing we ever did. At least they'd be in a growing, debt free, high tech economy.

Comment on daily mail website:

British people are always so greedy. Money, money money that's all British want. There are millions of people in poverty and suffering if not ill and near death. Britain should give this pension money to India to help these people survive.
- Kirit, Chennai, India, 30/6/2011 13:27

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[gingerjedi]

When the TV crew turned up they went and got more placards and stuck them in the grass to make it look like more people had attended, the (now dozen) people are singing for the cameras.

TV crew look a bit miffed with the lack of crowd to film.

[SimonMac]

ooops

I'm not even gonna try and back peddle to save that post

[Mason Boyne]

Just seen a sing:

"ConDem's: Putting the U in cuts!"

[SimonMac]

Just seen a sing:

"ConDem's: Putting the U in cuts!"

[rd409]

Outsource all the teaching to India. Infact, send all our kids to India would probably be the best thing we ever did. At least they'd be in a growing, debt free, high tech economy.

And learn something for a change.