Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
Most poor people live in the poorest countries.
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.
If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.
Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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