Our babbling brook of
bullshit, the media, continually spews out a vision of India as one
of the world's economic giants, which in corporate greed, it is. As
they follow Cameron around that country, what we see is an army of
well fed, well manicured, wealthy parasites, living off the cream of a
country where deprivation is endemic. Campaign after celebrity
campaign goes on about the poverty in Africa, and believe me that is
real poverty, but what we don't hear is that India has around 450
million people living in “dire” poverty. This is equivalent to
all the poor of all the countries in Africa combined. A country
lauded for its economic growth and it has more than 450 million
people living on 12 rupees or less a day, (this is the measure of
“dire” poverty). This army of deprivation has seen practically no
reduction in the past 30 years. A recent document by the Planning
Commission states that the poor of rural India were better fed 30
years ago than they are now. The Indian government's own figures
reveal that of its 856 million rural population, 50% live in poverty
trying to survive on less than 20 rupees a day.
This wonderful
economic growth that the Western corporate world looks at with envy,
creates the same pattern as corporate growth the world over, glaring
brutal inequalities. India is fourth in the billionaire league with
61 billionaires, who have a combined wealth of $250 billion, The 100
richest people in that country have assets equivalent to a quarter of
the country's GDP, with its richest man having a personal wealth of
$20 billion. Compare that with the fact that every second child born
in India is stunted and under weight due to poverty and malnutrition.
This is the
pattern of corporate capitalist growth in country after country.
Billionaires grow bloated on wealth stolen from the ones who actually
create that wealth. Private jets, holiday islands purchased for
friends and family, sumptuous homes dotted around the globe, personal
assistants, personal trainers. All this wealth belongs to those who
produce it, yet they are the ones that live in deprivation, our
wealth is plundered daily by that small army of parasites, who, like all parasites, will continue to feed of our sweat and toil as long as we allow them. We need to wash our society and get rid of those parasites.
I'll repeat the verse from the last post:
We are the ones who knead and yet we have no bread,
we are the ones who dig for coal and yet we are cold.We are the ones who have nothing,
and we are coming to take the world.~ Tassos Livaditis (Greek poet, 1922-1988)
