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Oracle, so here's what I'm asking you. Are you going to compensate them? How?Rage, we have to draw the line somewhere. Cutting of all ties with Pakistan will not only give Pakistan a quagmire, but other countries will also take a note of this and push Pakistan to dismantle/eliminate terrorist groups/camps. You have to remember, India was churned out of many many sacrifices. $3-$4 billion is peanuts compared to that. As for our youths, there are many Yojanas started by the GoI, which has benefited them. Also, I am not saying this move will definitely help, but since we believe in Gandhi and Ahimsa so much, let's believe in Non Co-operation once. That sure helped us during the British Raj.
"Are you going to give them jobs?". I guess you wanted to use "Many would lose jobs". So that you know, the tax I pay too goes into many schemes that GoI has for the poor.
No, I'm not asking if you pay taxes. I know you do, and I do too. So, you're going to impoverish another section of society, so that they can be included in the government's 'poverty-alleviation schemes', too?
You think cutting off all 'economic-diplomatic-politico-cultural' ties with Pakistan is going to make it stop terrorism? How? Explain to me the economic logic behind that.
If you want to screw somebody, don't ignore them. Enter their house and take over their goods, their markets, their machinery and their culture. Then, you will have really screwed them.
We are no American superpower. Pakistan does not depend on us for its trade. And any embargo we try to put on Pakistan will only backfire on us, because we make far more from extorting their resources, selling our goods to them, marketing our produce, our films, our steel, our coal and clothing wares, marketing our agricultural products <on which our farmers' livelihoods depend> and our chemicals and cosmetics/sanitary products than they do from us.
What yojanas have benefitted our youth, to the full extent that we pay our taxes, baba? So, your solution is to hinge on a crazy bet, to close off a market that our people benefit from, so as to impoverish that section of society that does, and have a further share taken off from our taxes and go into these grubby politicians' pockets, to the extent that they're incorporated in these programs? Are you trying to make people independent, or patronize them?
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