Ridiculous

British taxpayers will continue to give money to help the poorest people in India despite the Asian giant’s booming economy the International Development Secretary, has said.

The Government has come under pressure to explain why British taxpayers are giving millions to countries like India, which has its own space programme, at a time of austerity when ministers are implementing a radical programme of public sector cuts.  Describing India as a “development paradox,” with 450 million people living on less than 50p a day while millionaires enjoyed great wealth, Mr Mitchell said:

"The fact is that if you want to reach these Millennium development goals, which we are also keen to do by 2015, you have to operate where poverty is greatest.  In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa." 

How is that an explanation?  Indeed, how is that even a just reason to send out aid to India?  If people are unwilling to help themselves or each other internally, given the vast wealth of some and the country as a whole -surely it becomes an internal problem?  I see no reason for this to continue.  As I have oft repeated, charity starts at home and always should.  Especially when the UK is in the shit.

From TTel.