Today is a momentous day indeed.
First, the newspapers informed me through a tax-funded advert that it is Nehru’s birthday – and hence “Children’s Day”; the same children who are the “population problem,” I presume.
Hey kids! Sanjay Gandhi forcibly sterilized millions to make sure millions of you aren’t born.
And do read my assessment of Nehru – that argues he was an “evil man.”
Second: An Indian spacecraft is to make a moon-landing today, a tax-funded rocket to felicitate Nehru.
On the ground the news has it that, our The State has failed to achieve even half of its rural roads target. They targeted 3,50,000 kms; they achieved less than half that.
So they decided to hit the moon!
Not only this, their score on rural electrification is even worse – less than 38 per cent of the target. In school, we were declared “FAILED” if we ever scored less than 40%.
(I religiously flunked Hindi, but that’s another story.)
Ha!
Half the population has no roads and no electricity – and you hit the moon!
No bread, eat cake kinda shit.
Third: Manmohan is off to the G-20 meet in Washington DC. They spend a lot of money there too on space exploration. But now it seems none of them really have the money. Indeed, it seems that the money is not money. And each and every one of these G-20 States is a monopolistic issuer of inconvertible paper notes masquerading as money. So what do we do?
We ask them to find the solution!
But they are the problem!
So I find the lead editorial in the Economic Times extremely naïve, for it offers “prayer” to the G-20. I recommend Mr. Morrison, who said, “You cannot petition the Lord with prayer.”
We don’t need government money.
We don’t need government “experts” on money.
Let us revert to the simplicity of gold, something everyone understands.
Let government budgets therefore be made by politicians wearing “golden handcuffs”: no deficits.
And certainly no “welfare for the poor” funded that way. This “welfarism” actually taxes the poor – through inflation. This is “false philanthropy.”
With gold as money (and property titles), and roads and electricity, free trade and Liberty Under Law, the poor of today will be able to substantially increase their consumption and also accumulate Capital, the life-blood of Capitalism.
“Into that haven of Freedom, my Lord, let my country awake.”
Just as China was notoriously uptight about succeeding grandly in the organisation of the last Olympic Games, so an India rocket is hitting the moon for the same reason: PRESTIGE!. Who cares about the poor anyway? (Or the genocide that's going on in the Congo?) It's so easy to close one's eyes and pretend that the poor don't exist.
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