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Under the National Rural Guarantee Scheme one member from each of India's 60 million rural households is guaranteed 100 days of work each year.

They will receive a minimum wage of 60 rupees ($1.35) or an unemployment allowance if there is no work.

More than a third of India's population of more than one billion people lives on less than $1 a day.

The first phase of the programme will cover 200 of the country's poorest and least developed districts.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4671328.stm

Does that more recent figure from China include the (most often girl) babies that were reportedly killed in order to have compliance with the one-child policy or did these children officially not exist?

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Originally posted by Loretta:
Fidel,

Does that more recent figure from China include the (most often girl) babies that were reportedly killed in order to have compliance with the one-child policy or did these children officially not exist?

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The impetus for one child policy in China actually came from the west - a notorious organization called the Club of Rome in 1974. Using MIT computer simulations showing how we would breed ourselves into extinction unless exponential growth was dealth with, the Chinese reacted. Those concerns were proved to be false several years later.

In addition to lowering China's infant mortality to unprecedented numbers compared to all third world nations, the average Chinese life span almost doubled during Mao's time. This is a terrible irony for the first emperor of Chin who was fascinated with immortality at the same time he ordered millions to be worked to death on the Great Wall and then his grand burial tomb after that. Canada's Gordon Sinclair slept in a luxury hotel in China in the 1920's. He commented on seeing 200 Chinese freeze to death by morning in a vacant lot across the street. China was a fourth world country leading up to 1949.

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I'm glad to see this attempt in India to alleviate poverty.

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Nobel laureate in economics, Amartya Sen puts the number of premature deaths from the global experiment in democratic capitalism between 1947 and 1979 at over a 100 million with about 4 million dying annually in India as cash crops are exported to "the market" from that country. An esimtated six to thirteen million children will die around the capitalist third world this year, the next and the one after that. Capitalism is a monumental failure - a dead end for humanity.

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Capitalism is a monumental failure - a dead end for humanity.

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I suppose Pakistan will be launching it own anti-poverty jobs program in response. I am sure they are aware of the anti-poverty program "gap," and are speedily working to catch up.

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Its only right that some of the enormous wealth that's being generated be redistributed to the poorest of the poor.

The BBC story refers to unknown and unnamed "critics" of the scheme. I love how the MSM does this so often. Are these "critics" from the ruling elites or are they from the anti-poverty movement?

We'll never know...because the MSM will never tell us.

I guess they're like those "informed sources" or "western diplomats".

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Ok mr anarchist who posts the unsolicited web opinion of one anonymous drug-dealing Miami Cuban named "Morpheus", and you who cuts and pastes quotes from Martin Heidegger, what do you suggest 800 million hungry people around the world do ? - them who are currently enslaved by the Washington-based IMF's economic austerity policies and crooked loans to Washington's puppets ?. Subsistence isn't an option for the majority of them now as they are pushed off arable land to the desert fringes and hillsides to make way for cash crops. Subsistence or death? I don't know of any peasants around the world who read Nazis like Heidegger or Schmitt. Do you ?. You've got the strangest opinions on fascism and capitalism for someone purporting to be an antiestablishmentarian, I must say.

Socialism or barbarism. Socialismo es muerte!