Little miss pipe dream

Begging will be uprooted forever
Thu, Feb 5th, 2009 12:49 pm BdST

Dhaka, Feb 5 (bdnews24.com)
Vagrancy and begging will forever be rooted out from Bangladesh within the next five years...
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I nearly spat peppermint tea all over my computer screen when I saw this headline. Ten points for optimism, but it is full of even more folly than Bob Hawke's (in)famous pledge that, "...by 1990 no Australian child will be living in poverty."

Realistic goals against which progress can be measured would be much more inspiring than statements so obviously void of any semblance of reality.