US lessens aid to India

[Bull]

We are discussing the claim of maddy which is 'India, as big time donor to US'.
Don't go out of context, when you run out of wisdom.

We are not discussing that!!! We are discussing the topic/title.

 

[Bull]

You said and which I found pretty arrogant and very impolite attitude toward American people.

oh lol...this is the weirdest statement i have read in the recent past. Batman fighting for American people.

Have you forgot American aid during Tusunami??

Please do remind us!!!

If you want to see our major cities or life in Pakistan than come visit Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi, if you can't do that than use google earth this will be enough to shatter your imagitnations and this is where more than quarter of Pakistan lives..

First stop all those suicide attacks and rocket attacks and then we shall think about coming there.

I quote remarks of a person from a very developed country who visited Karachi and Islamabad one year ago and he told me that 'he has never seen any where in his life so many new cars on roads' and I tell you another remark made to me by another european who was visiting Lahore 7 yeras ago he said 'it is so green and beautiful city that it should be one of the popular tourist place in world'..

I met another expert in urban planning who had visited Karachi and Islamabad and commented these are the worst cities he has visited.

 

[Maddy]

We are discussing the claim of maddy which is 'India, as big time donor to US'. Don't go out of context, when you run out of wisdom.

It is indeed very good news. To hell with even the $81 million that we would recieve. India was a big time donnor to US during Katrina tragedy

Are you high my friend? I was referring to the Katrina Tragedy, pls read the posts in the right perspective.

 

[Maddy]

oh lol...this is the weirdest statement i have read in the recent past. Batman fighting for American people.

BATMAN is indeed an American fictional hero... whatelse can we expect of him. He's just doing his job, defending the Americans.

Batman Returns

 

[ARSENAL6]

Proof Maddy proof of india giving aid

 

[joey]

There is no end of having aid for a developing country like us, I'm all for it knowing 85 million each year can fix 85 villages if the money is well spent, but knowing its going to be lost in the pile of billions that are already earmarked, from US POV perhaps a wise decision.

 

[roadrunner]

India donated $5 million during Katrina and other logistical supports

5 mill is pittance.

 

[roadrunner]

Lol i don't know if its good news or bad news.

WASHINGTON: India is now a "transforming country," not a "developing country."

The change in nomenclature which rids India of a decades-old label comes from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has decided to whittle down the already marginal US assistance to India and eventually eliminate it because of India's thriving economy.

According to recent reports advancing a story first reported by TOI in February, India will be one of the big "losers" under secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's new aid plan that is tilted towards strife torn countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Iraq's aid has been boosted fivefold for 2008, while Afghan-istan and Pakistan together will receive more than 85 per cent of the $2.2 billion aid budget for 12 countries in South and Central Asia. This is besides the hundreds of millions of dollars Washington provides these countries in budgeted military aid and loosely accounted money for the war on terrorism.

The bulk of the $23 billion in annual US foreign aid goes to a handful of key countries, leaving about 120 nations to battle over the remaining $3 billion.

India is among the country fed on the crumbs that it would rather reject in favour of free and fair commerce under New Delhi's new policy that emphasises trade rather than aid.

Overall US aid to India is slated to be cut to $81 million in 2008, a 35 per cent cut from the previous fiscal, on the theory that it has one of the best-performing economies in the world.

India was among the top recipients of US aid in 1960s when it was considered a basket case and termed an "underdeveloped country". It stood a distance fourth behind Israel, Egypt and Russia in 1994 in terms of US aid. As for the fiscal year 2008, it will not even be in the top 20.

The $ 81 million allocation, some of which goes towards just administering the USAID operations in India, is less than some of the individual private equity flows and grants by private foundations. "India is now taking a different place on the global stage, in terms of diplomacy, politics and economy. Aid programs had not caught up with these evolving realities," state department spokesman Sean McCormack was cited as saying explaining the cuts.
The term "transforming country" was coined by former USAID administrator Randall Tobias, who had observed just before demitting office earlier this year that that India had become a donor country and cited its massive aid (amounting to almost $ 1 billion) to Afghanistan.

"India is in a position where they are taking on more of the burden for the problems facing India," Tobias had said.
In tune with its growing economy and self-confidence, India has been asserting for the past few years that what it needs from US is fair practice in trade, not aid. Some of Washington's predatory actions cost India a lot more than what US gives in aid. For instance, the US practice of extracting social security tax from guest workers from India (H1-B visa holders) nets Washington more than $ 500 million annually. This money is not repatriated to India even when the workers return, absent a totalisation agreement that Washington is reluctant to sign.

Other disagreements between the two sides, in areas such as food import/export, cost both sides billions, dwarfing any aid figures. In recent years, India has als been a quiet votary of US economic assistance (but not military aid) to Pakistan. Washington now considers Pakistan along with Afghanistan a basket case. It has hiked aid to both countries, mixing butter with guns. At $ 785 million for fiscal ‘08, Pakistan is now among Washington's top aid recipients. Some estimate put US economic and military assistance to Pakistan at $ 2 billion a year now.

But Israel remains the most favoured US aid recipient. In per capita terms, US aid to India is almost negligible ($ 84 million for a population of $ 1.1 billion) compared to what Washington lavishes on Israel ($ 2.4 billion on a population of 7 million).

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...des_India_in_aid_plan/articleshow/2225575.cms

Probably just don't want to give it so much money. India is definitely not a a developed country. It's developing, not sure what transforming means, but it still means developing I guess.

 

[Bull]

Probably just don't want to give it so much money. India is definitely not a a developed country. It's developing, not sure what transforming means, but it still means developing I guess.

Ok so they stopped their aid to us decided to continue giving it to Pakistan. Got the difference. Only a **** guy would say or think India is developed.

 

[Bull]

Proof Maddy proof of india giving aid

http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/sep/03katrina.htm

http://www.indianembassy.org/press_release/2005/Sept/11.htm

 

[Cheetah786]

This being said by a country who recieves aid thats meant for strife torn countries.

Last i checked India is still receiving aid.its just say not as much it doesn't say none at all.

 

[Maddy]

Last i checked India is still receiving aid.its just say not as much it doesn't say none at all.

Atleast we have made it till here in 60 years of independenc, unlike some who still run their economy on international aid and not to mention selling their own citizens.

 

[Adux]

Atleast we have 5 milliion to donate, unlike...lol

 

[intruder]

And India is the second-largest investor by projects in UK after the US and second largest job creattor in UK after US ....

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/india/article2120737.ece

 

[Maddy]

An E- mail sent by Dean IIT Madras, about our National Identity


Dear Friends,

Here is a personal experience, as well as a moment of national pride, which I want to share with you. Hope you find it worth the time you put in reading it :

In the middle of the 1965 India-Pakistan war, the US govt - then a close friend of Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid (remember "PL-480"). For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. So much so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal Bahadur Shastri went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indian to observe one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat. As a school boy, I joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call. I continued the fast even when the war was over and India became self-sufficient in food. Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the US govt, I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA.

It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When the Indian ambassador in Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 5 million to the US govt, two plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials were waiting to fly to the USA. Time to break the fast? With no bad feeling about the USA, and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humble Indian feels proud of the distance India has covered in 40 years. Let's celebrate a New India!

We have miles to go, but let us feel proud of the direction our Nation is taking. Jai Hind.

This what it means to us INDIANS!!! Something that you will never come to realise of.

JAI HIND