So what if children die.

A free midday meal becomes extremely expensive when 27 children die after eating lunch at a primary school in Bihar. Ten are still in critical condition. TOI, 18 July. Our politicians love to ooze kindness and charity by distributing handouts on taxpayer money to the poor so that they will vote for them out of humble gratitude. However, to dish out charity you need to have large numbers of desperately poor people who are ready to sacrifice their pride and self respect to be treated as beggars. And that is why our politicians continue to follow thoroughly discredited socialist policies instead of concentrating solely on making the country rich by developing continuous, steady electricity supply, smooth roads, so that we can drive from one end of the country to another in hours instead of days, and top quality education, so that everyone has an equal chance of becoming economically successful. Also limit such assistance to those who have only one child so that the population starts to contract. But all these take time and a lot of hard work. Much easier to divide the people by a system of reservations based on caste and tribe, promise a range of free goodies from electricity to laptops to color TVs and food grains at Rs 2 a kilo or free meals in schools. A victory may bring a minister's post which is when the big bucks can be earned through bribes and loot. Besides all social schemes can be looted at the local level keeping those lower down the pecking order happy. So children die. Bihar Chief Minister has become best friends with the Congress because he has suddenly discovered his true faith in secularism even though he was elected with BJP support. No problem embracing the traitors of the Congress for the sake of " minority votes ". Let the majority go to the devil. So much for " democracy " that all of them swear by. The Education Minister of Bihar has already concluded that the children were poisoned deliberately with some organophosphorus compound in a massive conspiracy. Since they are used freely as pesticides it would not be at all surprising if traces were indeed found on fruits and vegetables. A doctor said that the children had widely dilated pupils which would clearly rule out these compounds. The Minister was asked by John Sopel of the BBC last night whether he would take responsibility and resign. He was so shocked that anyone could even suggest such a thing that he went quiet for a while and then said that there was no need for such an " extreme step ". It was as if he had been asked to commit hara kiri. Hilarious. Power and pelf without any responsibility. So what if children die.