Evil, Corrupt, Anti-Poor

I have even worse news on the Total Chacha State's doings today. These evil rulers of ours have banned cotton exports - so that cotton mills can increase their profits by buying their principal raw material cheap. It is alleged in this column that mill-owners have paid for this favour. Chacha Manmohan S Gandhi and the CONgress are corrupt to the core.

Note that cotton farmers are among the poorest in India. In the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, there has been news of cotton farmer suicides for many years now. I recently drove through cotton-growing areas of North Karnataka - the Hubli-Gadag area - and was struck numb by the sheer poverty there, as compared to sunny Goa.

Now, these poor cotton farmers should be possessed of the Liberty to sell their crop to the highest bidder - in this case, overseas buyers. Banning cotton exports hurts cotton farmers badly. It also ruins their export markets permanently, because they will be viewed as unreliable suppliers.

Thus, all the Chacha-Sonia talk about being "pro-poor" is pure bullshit. NREGA ditch-digging enriches the bureaucracy, not the poor. As does miseducation. As does cheap rotten cereals. All these policies are in the interest of fat cat IAS baboons, who get to spend all the (fiat) money. Inflationism, which funds all this sham welfare, is also a means of making poor people poorer.

Chacha and Sonia talk endlessly about "helping the poor" only to legitimize this colossal loot in the eyes of the gullible. When it comes to brass-tacks, this Total Chacha State always acts to entrench poverty. The machinery of the Total Chacha State works non-stop to make the poor poorer, by trampling on their Liberty to buy and sell.

Freedom to trade by land and sea is the only way by which all this corruption can be ended and the poor farmer can climb out of poverty - on his own.

Freedom to trade by land and sea was one of the clauses of the Magna Carta. The Englishmen of 1215 AD gheraoed their King and made him sign on the dotted line that he and his State would not interfere in their Liberties. We need to do the same in India. Sharad Joshi should amass his troops upon Raisina Hill and get Chacha to sign a Magna Carta for all Indians. His farmers' organization, Shetkari Sanghatana, is already very big among onion and cotton farmers. I hope he will now enlist ganja farmers in his mission too.

Liberty!

Recommended read: The chapter on the Magna Carta in my Natural Order: Essays Exploring Civil Government & the Rule of Law, free e-book here.