The State Does Not Need More Money. It Needs to Use the Real Resources It Has
If Tamil Nadu has people ready to work, materials, skills and productive capacity, why should the lack of money in the Treasury stop the State from using them? There is a question that deserves a much more honest answer than it usually receives: When a government wants to improve the lives of its people, what does it actually need? Does it need money? Or does it need people, materials, skills, land, technology, infrastructure and the capacity to organise them ? Think about what a government actually does. It wants: teachers in schools, doctors and nurses in hospitals, engineers and workers building roads, people producing food, equipment for public services, housing, clean water, electricity, public transport, environmental restoration, care for children and the elderly. Take a simple example: improving the school lunch so that it is on par with the best school lunch anywhere. What does it need? Money? Or more cereals, vegetables, fruits and other ingredients to ...