Situation Impossible
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I hate to beat a dead horse, drive the point into the ground and keep posting up clips of similarly looking frustrated people off the streets saying almost the same thing: it's a challenge to live through a crisis that seems neverending.
By profession, I am a technology trade journalist and an entrepreneur. My optimism is almost an occupational hazard and I tend to have a lot of faith in the people, community and society around me - until I keep hearing the same message from the same lot of people, screaming out for help things I find are the most fundamental in nature - We're experiencing a FOOD CRISIS! In this day and age where we've landed on the moon and looking for ways to get to Mars; laugh at people who still think a floppy disk is the way to travel data and documents and poke fun at people who think PING PONG is a sport. This is sad beyond belief and disturbing beyond imagination. As long as there is a crisis, SOMEONE is making a profit, and it is inhuman. Absolutely - Listen to this guy off the street, once again, another random grab - the transcription of the interview is followed in this text.
Question: How have the rising prices effected you? How do you deal with the cost of living?
It's like this that, survival is very difficult. My older brother, who is also a breadwinner, has just come back home from the hospital after being involved in an accident, so I am the sole earning member in the home. Rs.6,000 ($100) is my monthly income. Out of this, food take up about Rs3,000, which leaves us just $50 for the rest of the expenses. Since President Musharraf has come, the cost of living has just gone up, I cannot even begin to describe this to you. We have young siblings, younger children. I have my own 2 children. How can we all survive. You tell me?
Question: What do you want? What do you think the solution for this is?
I want things to be affordable. My salary is just not enough because the cost of one bread, is Rs.5. How can a poor man live? Should we work 24 hours a day just to make ends meet? I am a watchman (chowkidaar) so I get paid a fixed salary as opposed to a daily wage or per hour wage. So even if I work 24 hours a day, it's not going to make a difference. I am alone. I don't even have a father or someone older to help me. What is an orphan like me supposed to do? Things are very difficult. Very unbearable.
By profession, I am a technology trade journalist and an entrepreneur. My optimism is almost an occupational hazard and I tend to have a lot of faith in the people, community and society around me - until I keep hearing the same message from the same lot of people, screaming out for help things I find are the most fundamental in nature - We're experiencing a FOOD CRISIS! In this day and age where we've landed on the moon and looking for ways to get to Mars; laugh at people who still think a floppy disk is the way to travel data and documents and poke fun at people who think PING PONG is a sport. This is sad beyond belief and disturbing beyond imagination. As long as there is a crisis, SOMEONE is making a profit, and it is inhuman. Absolutely - Listen to this guy off the street, once again, another random grab - the transcription of the interview is followed in this text.
Question: How have the rising prices effected you? How do you deal with the cost of living?
It's like this that, survival is very difficult. My older brother, who is also a breadwinner, has just come back home from the hospital after being involved in an accident, so I am the sole earning member in the home. Rs.6,000 ($100) is my monthly income. Out of this, food take up about Rs3,000, which leaves us just $50 for the rest of the expenses. Since President Musharraf has come, the cost of living has just gone up, I cannot even begin to describe this to you. We have young siblings, younger children. I have my own 2 children. How can we all survive. You tell me?
Question: What do you want? What do you think the solution for this is?
I want things to be affordable. My salary is just not enough because the cost of one bread, is Rs.5. How can a poor man live? Should we work 24 hours a day just to make ends meet? I am a watchman (chowkidaar) so I get paid a fixed salary as opposed to a daily wage or per hour wage. So even if I work 24 hours a day, it's not going to make a difference. I am alone. I don't even have a father or someone older to help me. What is an orphan like me supposed to do? Things are very difficult. Very unbearable.
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- rabiagarib
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