Recently the Indian Budget ritual was enacted on Feb 28. Here are some of the stats on India that I culled from a recent article "Unfinished Agenda" from India Today... - Of the 126 airports (domestic and international) only 9 are profitable and 45 airports where NO flights land!- 18 of the 30 State Electrivity Boards lose money.- SEBs lose Rs 30,000 crores in THEFT annually (roughly USD 6.8 BILLION)- Internal Debt is OVER 80% of the GDP- Deficits of State and Center add up to OVER 10% of the GDP.- Tax-GDP ratio is just over 11%.- 40% of the food produced ROTS (around 16 MILLION TONNES of foodgrain and 40 MILLION TONNES of fruits and vegetables)- If food processing was opened up to enable refrigeration, processing and packaging - it would create jobs, deliver incomes to 670 million farmers (who are 66% of population living off of LESS THAN 25% of GDP) for more such stats go to this post. I dont care what political ideology one professes to follow - communist, socialist, or capitalist.. or whatever shit one comes up with - but when: 1. the country loses $6.8 BILLION a YEAR to theft because a few thousand inefficient workers in State Electricity Boards cannot be laid off...2. When 40% of the FOOD in a country ROTS because we cannot open it up to processing companies because they would make stuff for rich and provide inferior stuff to poor as opposed to the Government providing NOTHING to the poor... ... then in my book we have VERY SICK MINDSETS!! Read more