Re: [nukkad] I have good company when I criticise USA

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Hi All,

Once George Bush said at a meeting, The French dont
know business and that's why there is no parallel word
for entrepreneur in French language.

He forgot that entrepreneur is a French word!!!

Talk about foot in the mouth!!

Rajababu

--- "Dr.M.C. Gupta"  wrote:

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> International Herald Tribune
> 
> U.S. should go on diet of its own, India says
> By Heather Timmons
> Tuesday, May 13, 2008
> 
> NEW DELHI: Instead of blaming India and other
> developing nations for the
> rise in food prices, Americans should rethink their
> energy policy and go
> on a diet, say a growing number of politicians,
> economists and academics
> here.
> 
> Criticism of the United States has ballooned in
> India recently,
> particularly after the administration of President
> George W. Bush seemed
> to blame India's increasing middle class and
> prosperity for rising food
> prices. Critics from India seem to be asking one
> underlying question:
> "Why do Americans think they deserve to eat more
> than Indians?"
> 
> The food problem has "clearly" been created by
> Americans, who are eating
> 50 percent more calories than the average person in
> India, said Pradeep
> Mehta, the secretary general of CUTS Center for
> International Trade,
> Economics and Environment, a private economic
> research organization
> based in India with offices in Kenya, Zambia,
> Vietnam and Britain.
> 
> If Americans were to slim down to even the
> middle-class weight in India,
> "many hungry people in sub-Saharan Africa would find
> food on their
> plates," Mehta said. The money Americans spend on
> liposuction to get rid
> of their excess fat could be funneled to famine
> victims instead, he
> added.
> 
> Developing nations like China and India have long
> been blamed for
> everything from the rising cost of commodities to
> global warming,
> because they are consuming more goods and fuels than
> ever before. But
> Indians from the prime minister's office on down
> never fail to point out
> that per capita, India uses far fewer commodities
> and pollutes far less
> than the West, and particularly the United States.
> 
> Many Indians felt that Bush's remarks on May 2 were
> more of the same,
> though this time they seemed to breed a widespread
> sense of "We're not
> going to take this anymore." During a news
> conference in Missouri, Bush
> mentioned India's growing middle class, and said
> "when you start getting
> wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and
> better food, and so
> demand is high, and that causes the price to go up."
> This came on the
> heels of a similar statement by Secretary of State
> Condoleezza Rice that
> had already upset many in India.
> 
> Americans eat an average of 3,770 calories per
> capita a day, the highest
> amount in the world, according to data from the UN
> Food and Agricultural
> Organization, compared to 2,440 calories in India.
> They are also the
> largest per capita consumers in any major economy of
> beef, the most
> energy-intensive common food source, according to
> the U.S. Department of
> Agriculture. The United States and Canada top the
> world in oil
> consumption per person, according to the U.S. Energy
> Information
> Administration.
> 
> "George Bush has never been known for his knowledge
> of economics,"
> Jairam Ramesh, the minister of state for commerce,
> told The Press Trust
> of India after Bush's remarks, which he said proved
> again how
> "comprehensively wrong" Bush is.
> 
> "To say that demand for food in India is causing
> increase in global food
> prices is completely wrong," Ramesh said.
> 
> Politicians and academics in India cite various
> other reasons: diversion
> of arable land in the United States and Europe into
> ethanol production;
> trade subsidies by the United States and Europe; and
> the dollar's
> decline.
> 
> Subsidies to Western farmers have undercut
> agricultural production in
> fertile areas of Africa for decades, Kamal Nath,
> India's minister for
> commerce and industry, said by telephone. Meanwhile,
> he added, Americans
> waste more food than people in many other countries,
> in part because
> they buy in such large quantities.
> 
> The United States is responsible "many times more"
> than India for the
> world food crisis because of its higher food
> consumption, said Ramesh
> Chand, an economist with the Indian Council of
> Agricultural Research,
> which advises India's government on farming policy.
> 
> The Bush administration responded to the criticism
> from India with calls
> for a truce. Bush is a "great friend and admirer" of
> India, said David
> Mulford, the U.S. ambassador to India. He added that
> he thought "this is
> a time for increased cooperation among nations to
> solve this problem and
> that hostile political commentary is not
> productive."
> 
> A White House spokesman, Scott Stanzel said, "We
> think it is a good
> thing countries are developing, that more and more
> people have higher
> standards of living."
> 
> Blaming India's growth is not only unfair but
> nonsensical, some
> economists argue. Food prices have not been
> continually rising with the
> growth of the developing world, said Ramgopal
> Agarwala, a former World
> Bank economist and senior adviser at RIS, a research
> organization in New
> Delhi.
> 
> "They were static until 2006, then in 2007 and 2008
> there was a sudden
> spark," he said. Meanwhile, India's boom has been
> happening over the
> past decade. This is "not last year's phenomena," he
> said. "I don't know
> who advised the president" on his recent comments,
> Agarwala said, but
> his analysis is "subprime."
> 
> Bush's "ignorance on most matters is widely known
> and openly
> acknowledged by his own countrymen," The Asian Age
> argued May 5 in an
> editorial, but he must not be allowed to "get away"
> with an attempt to
> "divert global attention from the truth by passing
> the buck on to
> India."
> 
> Mehta said that his remarks on liposuction were
> meant to be tongue in
> cheek but that "politically incorrect" attitudes
> like Bush's and Rice's
> needed to be challenged. Rather than blaming India,
> Mehta said, the West
> should be adjusting to the changing world. "If the
> developing world is
> going to develop, demand is going to go up, and
> there are going to be
> new political paradigms," he said.
> 
> Hari Kumar contributed reporting.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Prof. M C Gupta
> MD (Medicine), MPH,  LL.M.,
> 
> Advocate & Health and Medico-legal Consultant
> 
> 
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Regards,
Rajababu, Nivraaj Consultants
rajababu_75@yahoo.com


      


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