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"content": "somebody comes in and gives them vaccination, so that they survive. The man who gives vaccination is also given a job. All I am saying is that let us think organically. Madam Temporary Speaker, going back again to the ERS, it was successful in the sense that for the first time after so many years, the Government spent more money in health and education. By giving free primary school education, many children who could have been idle in the countryside went to school. Going to school is a kind of an occupation. You are not there to bother your parents. Your parents are also urged to get some more money to support you in school. So, they become innovative on how to get some money by selling their commodities from the garden, to support you in school. That creates jobs for some people. People never realize how free primary education system between 2002 and 2005 created a lot of jobs. Therefore, by the Government putting more money in social welfare--- Neoliberal economies think that when you put more money in social welfare it is wastage because it is not connected directly to production, but putting more money in social welfare creates a lot of work. For example, if you create more money in the health system, you will employ many more nurses who are now lying idle after being trained. Madam Temporary Speaker, so, the idea of creating jobs in our type of economy should not be confined just to credit availability to the youth. That credit availability must be connected to some kind of philosophy or concept on how agriculture, industry and other services are going to grow in our economy, so that these youths with credit will find an economy in which to invest that credit. But even now I see the kind of populist theories being bandied around in the so-called new economics, which do not make sense. Therefore, I definitely support this Motion, but I want this Senate, maybe in a study group, to begin guiding this nation on where we go from here in terms of developing a much more organic economy, where agriculture, industry, manufacture and infrastructure are articulate together. At the moment, I am afraid, we may be seeing this enormous growth in infrastructure, but there is tremendous social decay in them. One example is the one that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has just given, of these children trying to earn money at 1.00 a.m. in the night. There is tremendous social deprivation and decay in our nation and that is why there is also so much insecurity. Somehow, we must think of how investing heavily in infrastructure by itself, can also help deal with issue of social deprivation. We need at the same time to invest heavily in social welfare, health, education and housing, where jobs will be created, so that those children who go to sell groundnuts at 1.00 a.m. will find jobs lifting buckets in construction sites. Therefore, by evening they will be too tired to sell groundnuts, but have some money to take home and feed themselves. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support."
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