India's Wrong Priorities: As Children Go Hungry PM Modi Buys Fighter Jets In France

[axisofevil]

Typical american but hurt media.if India purchased f 18 ,we would be a good nation of elite but we purchased it from France,so we became nation of poor who is 3 rd largest world economy.

Don' take in a negative way. The article makes a point. You can buy weapons, but make more effort to help the poor like China is doing. Its in our best interest.

 

[MiG-21]

Don't worry . India is progressing faster than China.

And we will not kill our enemy with nukes, we will hit them with " Refale".

Yes, kill the enemy with rafale and kill your own people with apathy. Awesome combo.
Tell me, have you ever been without food for 5 days in a row? Its feels good to talk about rafale with a full stomach isnt it?

And what is this china fetish?

Don' take in a negative way. The article makes a point. You can buy weapons, but make more effort to help the poor like China is doing. Its in our best interest.

You mean china where people are made to work for 12 hours each day and paid a beggar's alms? Lets all follow that economic model. Its very good.

 

[wiseone2]

Right! Stop all defence purchases. Feed the children and use them to fight the next war instead!

What bloody nonsense! WTF is wrong with these self styled journalists nowadays?

why get angry ? there is a general point of bread versus guns.

 

[deckingraj]

Yes, kill the enemy with rafale and kill your own people with apathy. Awesome combo.
Tell me, have you ever been without food for 5 days in a row? Its feels good to talk about rafale with a full stomach isnt it?

And what is this china fetish?


You mean china where people are made to work for 12 hours each day and paid a beggar's alms? Lets all follow that economic model. Its very good.

interesting..so what are you suggesting?? please enlighten us here....

 

[sathya]

if we are as foolish at the title quotes, we would have done mmrca deal instead of only 36 aircraft at the current forex...

we only buy what we can afford..,

 

[ashok mourya]

Don' take in a negative way. The article makes a point. You can buy weapons, but make more effort to help the poor like China is doing. Its in our best interest.

There are more than 2 million scheme going on India by central and state Govts to help the poors including 1 rupee rice,Antorday anna yojan,Indira awas yojana , PMGSY, RGGVY,NREGA,Stipend for old and widow,SC,ST and minorities,free education including midday meal,laptop,cycle,clothes,books ...etc etc....but a country without security cannot suustain when you are surrounded by hostile neighborliness china a and Pakistan....think if Indian navy is not capable of evacuating its national from foreign nation how we would be complaining against govt for not having requisite forces....
Can you explain how china helping poor of there country????China is only industrializing there nation and investing in infrastructure to develop there nation not giving freebies.

 

[deckingraj]

why get angry ? there is a general point of bread versus guns.

Nopes...these are distortions and disinformation being spread...The last thing you want to cut down is defense expenses given the volatile neighborhood we are in....and even on that front last thing you want is to criticize IAF deal given how seriously they need a bail out...Hunger is there as no-one can deny it, however if you see the kind of money that is being spent on social programs then i am not sure if money is a concern at all!!

 

[The BrOkEn HeArT]

Yes, kill the enemy with rafale and kill your own people with apathy. Awesome combo.
Tell me, have you ever been without food for 5 days in a row? Its feels good to talk about rafale with a full stomach isnt it?

And what is this china fetish?

Now you looks ignorant too. Mr. Modi has signed 17 agreement with France . You just picked refale deal. What about other 16 agreements?? Are you aware?? These 16 agreements are all about infrastuctures , bring jobs and more food in India. And is there any country in this world who has "Right to food" for its people except India??

 

[Shotgunner51]

Yes, kill the enemy with rafale and kill your own people with apathy. Awesome combo.
Tell me, have you ever been without food for 5 days in a row? Its feels good to talk about rafale with a full stomach isnt it?

And what is this china fetish?

You mean china where people are made to work for 12 hours each day and paid a beggar's alms? Lets all follow that economic model. Its very good.

Very educated and insightful reading indeed, impressive! Exactly, there's no need use China as a benchmark, poor infrastructure, can only make shoes & umbrellas, it just doesn't worth it.

Back to the topic, buying weapons is the rights of india, just that this time is from France so the US media starts whining. If the purchase is from US, like other orders india had made before, the media will mute.

 

[jaiind]

 

[MiG-21]

interesting..so what are you suggesting?? please enlighten us here....

Very simple. Is rafale going to prevent any war? Not in a million years. The only safety against a war is a nuclear weapon which we already have.
Which brings us to the next question. Will china attack us? No because they are too busy stuffing their pockets with blood money of their own citizens, or economic development as they call it. They wont risk a war to jeopardise that well oiled money making machine.
Which brings us to the next set..will pakistan attack us? most definitely. Of which we are more than capable of defeating them both conventionally and non-conventionally.
With these set of measures already in place, we set out priorities right and spend on education and health care and increase the standard of living of the fuckinnnng poor people who are less than a km from you!! And the lower middle clas struggling to make ends meet.

Now you looks ignorant too. Mr. Modi has signed 17 agreement with France . You just picked refale deal. What about other 16 agreements?? Are you aware?? These 16 agreements are all about infrastuctures , bring jobs and more food in India. And is there any country in this world who has "Right to food" for its people except India??

Right to food? That's bullshit and amounts to demagoguery of politicians. The ground reality is different. By the time i took to type this message, a poor soul has already died due to lack of health care and nutrition.

 

[migflug]

The article is dammn true. We could have eliminated proverty to large extent if we had buyied f35

The article is dammn true. We could have eliminated proverty to large extent if we buy f35

 

[The BrOkEn HeArT]

Very simple. Is rafale going to prevent any war? Not in a million years. The only safety against a war is a nuclear weapon which we already have.
Which brings us to the next question. Will china attack us? No because they are too busy stuffing their pockets with blood money of their own citizens, or economic development as they call it. They wont risk a war to jeopardise that well oiled money making machine.
Which brings us to the next set..will pakistan attack us? most definitely. Of which we are more than capable of defeating them both conventionally and non-conventionally.
With these set of measures already in place, we set out priorities right and spend on education and health care and increase the standard of living of the fuckinnnng poor people who are less than a km from you!! And the lower middle clas struggling to make ends meet.



Right to food? That's bullshit and amounts to demagoguery of politicians. The ground reality is different. By the time i took to type this message, a poor soul has already died due to lack of health care and nutrition.

Even now you just picked one line to reply. But now you are on right track. " Right to food" is a good scheme but it is failing because of corruption and scams , not because of " refale deal". You should criticize corruption, not defence deal. Got it.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Very simple. Is rafale going to prevent any war? Not in a million years. The only safety against a war is a nuclear weapon which we already have.
Which brings us to the next question. Will china attack us? No because they are too busy stuffing their pockets with blood money of their own citizens, or economic development as they call it. They wont risk a war to jeopardise that well oiled money making machine.
Which brings us to the next set..will pakistan attack us? most definitely. Of which we are more than capable of defeating them both conventionally and non-conventionally.
With these set of measures already in place, we set out priorities right and spend on education and health care and increase the standard of living of the fuckinnnng poor people who are less than a km from you!! And the lower middle clas struggling to make ends meet.
Right to food? That's bullshit and amounts to demagoguery of politicians. The ground reality is different. By the time i took to type this message, a poor soul has already died due to lack of health care and nutrition.

Don't let this hunger issue overshowed by india's huge civil achievements in say infrastructure (india now can produce 90 watts/person/year, and has over 1200km of expressways, 254km of metro ...), as the other poster said india has surpassed the biggest enemy China!

With that perfect infrastructure together with huge pile of forex ($273/person), massive manufacturing base ($223B manufacturing value added, close to Brazil and Indonesia), even good results in international sports arena (the Union Master of Home has proudly declare), india has all the rights to as many weapons as india sees fit.

“Dear President, how can we help your country?” - AIIB

Don't worry . India is progressing faster than China.
And we will not kill our enemy with nukes, we will hit them with " Refale".

 

[Dnt deliver us from evil]

A factually incorrect article laced with copious amount of racism.

1. Number of people in India who live below $2 per day is close to 269.3 million, not 960 million.

2. Malnourishment rate , a years ago stood at 28% ( 18% lower that author’s assertion) and is projected to have further fallen to 25% by this year.


3. India’s defence budget at $40.4 billion is just 1.81% of GDP. People criticizing India’s defence budget seemingly ignore this.


4. For author’s “advice” about “attacking” its perceived external “enemies” with weapons of mass seduction , I would humbly request him to try to conquer IS using his weapon of mass seduction.If he succeeds, we would use those tested weapon against Jihadi state threatning us.

5.The “university” he is visiting is not a university but a trade school. He seem to have been hookwinded by some creative Indian.

6. India’s population is not exploding. India’s TFR is 2.4 and population is expected to stablize as early as 2020.

7. India has gross enrollment rate of 130%. It means that most of Indian kids are in school. Even some outside age bracket of school going children are enrolling themselves in classes. Apart from that India with literacy rate of around 80% (75% in 2011) does not beggar jibes on this front.

8. Frankly it is none of Author’s business to tell India how to spend money and you come out a racist with a poverty fetish.