Maurice Winn's factual errors and blatant prejuidice:
1.They vote to stay poor. Democracy doesn't mean wealth - it simply means mob rule. If most people vote for poor, that's what you get. Of course they don't actually think "Gee, it would be good to be poor - let's vote it in". They do like the average New Zealander - ensure their economic ignorance, adopt an attitude of cargo-cultism, then vote in a left-wing socialist approach.
India's middle class is already larger then America and Europe's middle class -- combined.
Must be why Clinton predicts India will be the World's largest economy by 2050, surpassing the U.S.
Must be why McKinsey Consulting predicts India-U.S. trade will be $90 billion by 2008.
Must be why George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, are setting up business development efforts in India.
India graduates 6 times as many engineers and doctors as the U.S.
Silicon Valley's Engineers are about 1/3 Indian. Companies started by Indians had a market cap. of US$270 billion in the Silicon Valley alone. Alot of these companies are setting up offices in India as well. Qualcomm's VP of CDMA Engineering is Indian, as are a good portion of it's staff.
2. Now they are even dumping English somewhat, which they think will make things better
India has the largest speaking English population in the world.
2. Also, it's hot in India. Temperate to cold in China
What does weather have to do with politics ?
Actually, Northern India is one of the coldest places, you have heard of the Himalayas perhaps ?
Now I know why they call you Kiwis. |