[ArcLight]

This ain't funny. People in India really have to live like that. I'll never forget walking through the Bombay jewelry district and seeing people dipping their hands in the open sewers. I asked why, and the guy I'd paid to act as a guide told me they were looking for tiny scraps of gold from the jewelers' shops--it was all they had to live on.

When you see that kind of poverty up close, you don't feel like joking about it. I grew up black and "poor" in America. But ever since going to India and Africa, I put "poor" in quotes. I now know that I've never been poor in my life. Not even close. On the other hand, there are places in the world where people live lives of such stunning poverty we Americans can't even comprehend it.

God bless and help them.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Ping, I posted before I read your post.

[martin_fierro]

This ain't funny.

My point exactly.

[Mears]

India? Isn't this the country that is taking many of our high tech jobs?

Why would we even do business with a country that allows such poverty?