Does INDIA smell?

[lefty]

Originally Posted by globetrotter

you miss the point entirely - most of these people work hard, struggle to get enough to eat and feed their familes, maybe spend 2 or 3 hours a day comuniting to a job that pays nothing and is both hard and dirty. and, on top of all that, they have access to niether electricity nor plumbing. so, they get up early in the morning, walk out to a field with a little bucket of water, and do what they have to do.

But all we need to do is send them this ad from Woodsy Owl and their problems will be solved:

lefty

 

[lefty]

Or Iron Eyes Cody ...

lefty

 

[Mblova]

Originally Posted by globetrotter

you miss the point entirely - most of these people work hard, struggle to get enough to eat and feed their familes, maybe spend 2 or 3 hours a day comuniting to a job that pays nothing and is both hard and dirty. and, on top of all that, they have access to niether electricity nor plumbing. so, they get up early in the morning, walk out to a field with a little bucket of water, and do what they have to do.


I know all this. Yes 60% of India's pop is under the poverty line, but what about the rest? The medium class in india numbers at approx 300million, the entire population of the US. People are the only ones that can help bring a change around, that and the government.

 

[globetrotter]

Originally Posted by Mblova

I know all this. Yes 60% of India's pop is under the poverty line, but what about the rest? The medium class in india numbers at approx 300million, the entire population of the US. People are the only ones that can help bring a change around, that and the government.

that number is exactly what is being debated now - are there 500 million or 900 million indians under the "povert line" - nobody really knows for sure. get some suits together and we can talk about it for hours. I'd say that it is closer to 900 million than 500 million, myself.

 

[Curious]

It depends where you go. Big cities generally are bad. But India is 700,000 small villages. There is smell of flowers, rain drenched soil & also of cowdung!

 

[AlanC]

 

[Mblova]

Have you seen Delhi?

About Numbers, it doesn't matter if its 500 or 900. I can see it being either, the problem is that its tremendously HUGE.