Jonathon D. Oe Yes things are very different in US and I can say that as a father of 3 wonderful children who did not have to suffer through 10 percent of the stress that I and my cohort did in India.Here if you can’t get into Harvard and MIT then you can still go to a tier 2 university and have a good chance to realize your goals. In India that is very difficult. The Ivy’s here admit one in 10 applicants but in India the ratio is around one in 10000 for the top schools.As far as government is concerned clearly your experience of developing countries is limited.In India corruption begins at the top and flows down to the bottom. The political party in power extracts billions from the wealthy business class for personal and political purpose and then returns it many times over by giving their favored friends choice permits and licenses who then extract rents that the monopoly confers on them. At the lower level most government positions are for sale ( police, customs, excise, taxes, public works etc). People pay to get such plum assignments and then have to recoup enough to recover their outlay and kick the rest up the seniority chain.Thus the cops shakedown shop keepers and motorists and contracts are awarded for a 40 percent kickback. This is the reason infrastructure in India is so bad - the contractors use sub standard material to finish civil projects as they have to make a profit after the kickbacks. I could go on and on but you get the idea……,

Jonathon D. Oe Yes things are very different in US and I can say that as a father of 3 wonderful children who did not have to suffer through 10 percent of the stress that I and my cohort did in India.Here if you can’t get into Harvard and MIT then you can still go to a tier 2 university and have a good chance to realize your goals. In India that is very difficult. The Ivy’s here admit one in 10 applicants but in India the ratio is around one in 10000 for the top schools.As far as government is concerned clearly your experience of developing countries is limited.In India corruption begins at the top and flows down to the bottom. The political party in power extracts billions from the wealthy business class for personal and political purpose and then returns it many times over by giving their favored friends choice permits and licenses who then extract rents that the monopoly confers on them. At the lower level most government positions are for sale ( police, customs, excise, taxes, public works etc). People pay to get such plum assignments and then have to recoup enough to recover their outlay and kick the rest up the seniority chain.Thus the cops shakedown shop keepers and motorists and contracts are awarded for a 40 percent kickback. This is the reason infrastructure in India is so bad - the contractors use sub standard material to finish civil projects as they have to make a profit after the kickbacks. I could go on and on but you get the idea……,

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