We should all be impoverished and overcrowded like that, bring on the illegals and socialism.
/sarc
No, they don’t need government help. They need a government that gets out of the way of private industry and charity. The free market works wherever it is allowed to operate.
We put corn in our gas tanks.
Look at the name of that town closely, “Allahbad”. It’s clearly a Muslim town and it’s suffering massive amounts of poverty while the rest of India is on fire. Just saying.
President Obama and his wife Bigfoot were traveling by limosine motorcade, just south of the Indian city of Allahabad, as luck would have it, and something caught their attention: children and adults were on their hands and knees—eating grass! It was just scrub grass mixed with clay and bits of glass and trash.
Well, they were both shocked and Mrs. Obama grunted loudly, so the SS fetched a few of the unfortunates to their car where the Untouchables fell upon their faces.
“Let me be clear,” said the young, handsome putative president. “In my country we are all equal so please feel free to rise to your knees unless you are simply incapable of doing so in my presence, and that’s perfectly understandable.”
A couple of the older villagers rose up on their knees, and Mrs. 0 grunted again, several times. Her husband nodded and asked them, “We noticed you are eating grass. Why is that? Why don’t you eat arugala, if you like vegetation, or some nice, aged Kobe steaks?”
And the villagers replied, “Oh sir, we have nothing to eat and no money to buy food with, so we are reduced to eating grass!”
Mrs. 0 again grunted, and her spouse and keeper stepped from the limo and said, “On this let me be clear, you are flying home with us to the United Socialist ... oops, I’m always getting ahead of myself! I mean, you are returning with us to `America’ where you will be my guests in my home.
The villagers clapped their hands and some began to tie their few belongings up with twine in rags, and Barry/Barack resumed his oration.
“In our country, no one of color goes hungry! You will be well taken care of, let me assure you.”
And the village elder cried with joy, “Oh sir, this is too much! To take us into your home and feed us and ... “
And Mrs. 0 grunted and her International Man of Mystery said,
“Tut tut old man, think nothing of it. We’ve been gone all week, our grass is lush and rich and it must be a foot high.”
It is absolutely unconscionable for people to continue having babies when the children they already have are eating mud and going into kidney failure as toddlers from malnutrition, not to mention suffering permanent cognitive deficiencies since their brains can’t develop properly. The reason giving these people food never helps is because they just use it to have even more babies — instead of alleviating the suffering, it just multiplies the scale of the suffering.
Unfortunately, when you are born into total poverty, it’s very hard to get out. Like some others have said, being poor doesn’t necessarily mean you are lazy or ignorant.
They haul up rock ore on their heads and load it into trucks all day, and don’t make enough money to buy food. There’s something wrong with that, no matter how you slice it.
There will never be a solution to this problem when a people has only one outlet from their grinding poverty and desperation.
For a few brief minutes in their miserable lives they can experience the only affordable pleasure available to them...sex.
Yes, but look at the positive side. Imagine how low their carbon footprint must be!