To look, as many Indians do, at Pakistan from such heights of ambition is to look at a struggling neighbor, economically reliant on International Monetary Fund handouts and politically blocked by the unworkable ideologies of Islam and a hyperactive military.
"David Cameron recently pledged to phase out dirty coal, but by offering power stations bill-payer funded handouts he's sending the opposite message.
The article claimed that the Queen and the country were so strapped for cash that she would "have to rely on lottery handouts to fund her Diamond Jubilee celebrations".
He will devote most of the day to begging for handouts to fund the next hit.
The licence fee might prove a more stable source of funding than government handouts, which are subject to three-yearly reviews.
A further, fuller report will follow next year.This week, the Millennium Commission, the Dome's chief funding body, approved yet another handout, supposedly a loan, this time of £29m ($43m), from National Lottery funds to the New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC), which runs the Dome.
Indeed Ontario is now classified as a have-not province, making it eligible for handouts from a federal fund to equalise public spending across the country.
The digital news initiative grants are the second set of handouts from Google's €150m fund.
By that argument, minimum pricing represents a free handout to producers rather than additional funds for national treasuries.
In the world of triumphant global capitalism, the small countries line up for handouts at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, then meekly follow orders.
