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1 posted on 04/15/2012 6:16:51 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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Having too much food grown sounds like good news but there is a downside to everything in this old world.


2 posted on 04/15/2012 6:26:04 AM PDT by dog breath
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Well they could trade it for Chevys from China.


3 posted on 04/15/2012 6:26:31 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Socialism is failing in India too.


4 posted on 04/15/2012 6:27:40 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Media doesn't report, It advertises. So that last advertisement you just read, what was it worth?)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Your point being?


5 posted on 04/15/2012 6:28:09 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

It sure sounds like India needs some more “you’re-on-your-own” economics.


6 posted on 04/15/2012 6:33:15 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind;)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Wow.

I’ve been in that country twice now on medical mission trips. The Dalits (formerly known as the “untouchables”) are being drawn to Christ, especially in the south. They have been taught all their lives that their underclass, almost slave like status, results from previously shameful lives.

The gospel appeals to them, especially when they learn there is one God in heaven who loves them and sent his son to save them from eternal damnation.

Of course, distribution of an over abundance of food in a land of want is always problematic, but at least the article points out they are considering distributing the excess to the poor due to inadequate space. Amazing, under any other situation, corrupt officials would be the sole beneficiaries.

I wonder if this is how the Lord will provide for His people in India with adequate food? I know for a fact that there are honest capable Indian run Christian organizations that would jump on such an opportunity.


8 posted on 04/15/2012 6:35:50 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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Currently living in rural India for the last half a year, and India fails on this because India is still entrenched in it’s centuries-old caste system, where corruption is every day business and common courtesy does not exist except for self.

Everyone expects someone else to pay and do the work, and most government workers don’t bother working at all unless you bribe them.

The Eastern half of India is currently in it’s third year of drought. the Godavari river is all but dried up and the people are out of drinking water in some places.

In India, no one does anything unless it benefits them in some way in money or political favors, and more than half the population are considered ‘untouchable’ and get little to nothing in support or help.

India is a system three and a half millennia old, and it does not change, except that everyone has cell phones but few have running water or toilets outside of using the side of the road. It’s chaos, graft and corruption on a scale that would make Chicago blush.


10 posted on 04/15/2012 6:47:15 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Have they considered turning their fool into fuel?


14 posted on 04/15/2012 6:54:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Why don’t they do like the US does, and give the wheat away free to their enemies?


15 posted on 04/15/2012 7:01:34 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

” Fears are rising that the grains would be out in the open, rot and be eaten by rodents even as millions go hungry in the country which is planning to enact a right to food law.”

Any law will be tried except the law of the free market.


19 posted on 04/15/2012 7:09:52 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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They grow bumpers? What do they use for seed.....door handles?


23 posted on 04/15/2012 7:20:40 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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"Fears are rising that the grains would be out in the open, rot and be eaten by rodents"

Which could create another problem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhlCeHTnTQI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3RLmErp43k

30 posted on 04/15/2012 7:52:53 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Straight out of Atlas Shrugged and the old woman who grew soybeans.


33 posted on 04/15/2012 9:12:19 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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