China's 5 year plan - The widening income gap must be closed - hilarious

[rdean]

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NPCWorkReportEng.pdf

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NDRCReportEng.pdf

China's National People's Congress 2011: The Reports (Full Text) - China Real Time Report - WSJ

Daniel K. Gardner: China Announces Priorities for Next Five Years

GDP is to grow by 7% annually over the next five years.

Prices are rising too quickly and should be stabilized.

Government funding for rural areas, farmers, and agriculture must be increased.

The widening income gap must be closed: the government will raise the minimum wage of workers, increase the subsistence allowance for urban and rural residents, reduce the tax burden on low- and middle-income people, and control wage scales in industries where incomes tend to become disproportionately high.

The social security system must be expanded and improved and the benefits raised: basic pension insurance and basic medical insurance systems should cover all urban and rural residents; and low-income housing should be made available to 20% of the country's urban households.

Conserve natural resources and protect the environment: the country must increase the proportion of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to 11.4%; reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16%: and reduce CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 17%

The government must combat corruption and promote clean government. Officials who abuse power for personal gain, neglect their duties, or infringe upon the rights of others will be prosecuted and punished.

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Fucking hilarious. Public option? Narrowing the "income gap"? Tightening regulations? Expand Social Security? Green energy? Low income housing? Pensions?

And USMB Right Wingers think we should be "more like China"? And China is stealing American "liberal ideas"?

Come on people. Surely you can see the humor.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Obama want's to be President of China because they're Communist. Quite telling I think.

 

[Stephanie]

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NPCWorkReportEng.pdf

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NDRCReportEng.pdf

China's National People's Congress 2011: The Reports (Full Text) - China Real Time Report - WSJ

Daniel K. Gardner: China Announces Priorities for Next Five Years

GDP is to grow by 7% annually over the next five years.

Prices are rising too quickly and should be stabilized.

Government funding for rural areas, farmers, and agriculture must be increased.

The widening income gap must be closed: the government will raise the minimum wage of workers, increase the subsistence allowance for urban and rural residents, reduce the tax burden on low- and middle-income people, and control wage scales in industries where incomes tend to become disproportionately high.

The social security system must be expanded and improved and the benefits raised: basic pension insurance and basic medical insurance systems should cover all urban and rural residents; and low-income housing should be made available to 20% of the country's urban households.

Conserve natural resources and protect the environment: the country must increase the proportion of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to 11.4%; reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16%: and reduce CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 17%

The government must combat corruption and promote clean government. Officials who abuse power for personal gain, neglect their duties, or infringe upon the rights of others will be prosecuted and punished.

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Fucking hilarious. Public option? Narrowing the "income gap"? Tightening regulations? Expand Social Security? Green energy? Low income housing? Pensions?

And USMB Right Wingers think we should be "more like China"? And China is stealing American "liberal ideas"?

Come on people. Surely you can see the humor.

wtf are you babbling about. who right now is the Administration selling us out to China and Mexico?

 

[LarryHorse]

hilariously ironic....then starkly depressing how much our citizenry can sabotage their own best interests in America

 

[skeptic]

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NPCWorkReportEng.pdf

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NDRCReportEng.pdf

China's National People's Congress 2011: The Reports (Full Text) - China Real Time Report - WSJ

Daniel K. Gardner: China Announces Priorities for Next Five Years

GDP is to grow by 7% annually over the next five years.

Prices are rising too quickly and should be stabilized.

Government funding for rural areas, farmers, and agriculture must be increased.

The widening income gap must be closed: the government will raise the minimum wage of workers, increase the subsistence allowance for urban and rural residents, reduce the tax burden on low- and middle-income people, and control wage scales in industries where incomes tend to become disproportionately high.

The social security system must be expanded and improved and the benefits raised: basic pension insurance and basic medical insurance systems should cover all urban and rural residents; and low-income housing should be made available to 20% of the country's urban households.

Conserve natural resources and protect the environment: the country must increase the proportion of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to 11.4%; reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16%: and reduce CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 17%

The government must combat corruption and promote clean government. Officials who abuse power for personal gain, neglect their duties, or infringe upon the rights of others will be prosecuted and punished.

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Fucking hilarious. Public option? Narrowing the "income gap"? Tightening regulations? Expand Social Security? Green energy? Low income housing? Pensions?

And USMB Right Wingers think we should be "more like China"? And China is stealing American "liberal ideas"?

Come on people. Surely you can see the humor.

Doesn't this entirely undermine your recurring meme that the GOP wants the kind of economic prosperity that China is cultivating?

I await your not so clever spin.

On a serious note, Chinese officials know that their society is highly stratified as a result of prosperity and they are scared shitless that the Jasmine Revolution might unravel their entire nation. They want to spread the wealth and strengthen their middle class.

But this isn't entirely different from the House of Saud offering up $26 billion in condolences to placate any civil unrest before it begins.

But is at least a little bit different. China doesn't have the kind of corruption that plagues the Americas and Europe. Japanese and Chinese have real social identities that are not completely subordinated by caste or class.

They hang their Madoffs for screwing up the baby formula recipe. Nobody is too big to fail in China.

 

[xsited1]

The government must combat corruption and promote clean government. Officials who abuse power for personal gain, neglect their duties, or infringe upon the rights of others will be prosecuted and punished.

I wish the US would do that. Remember that the least transparent President in US history is still President.

 

[rdean]

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NPCWorkReportEng.pdf

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NDRCReportEng.pdf

China's National People's Congress 2011: The Reports (Full Text) - China Real Time Report - WSJ

Daniel K. Gardner: China Announces Priorities for Next Five Years

GDP is to grow by 7% annually over the next five years.

Prices are rising too quickly and should be stabilized.

Government funding for rural areas, farmers, and agriculture must be increased.

The widening income gap must be closed: the government will raise the minimum wage of workers, increase the subsistence allowance for urban and rural residents, reduce the tax burden on low- and middle-income people, and control wage scales in industries where incomes tend to become disproportionately high.

The social security system must be expanded and improved and the benefits raised: basic pension insurance and basic medical insurance systems should cover all urban and rural residents; and low-income housing should be made available to 20% of the country's urban households.

Conserve natural resources and protect the environment: the country must increase the proportion of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to 11.4%; reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16%: and reduce CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 17%

The government must combat corruption and promote clean government. Officials who abuse power for personal gain, neglect their duties, or infringe upon the rights of others will be prosecuted and punished.

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Fucking hilarious. Public option? Narrowing the "income gap"? Tightening regulations? Expand Social Security? Green energy? Low income housing? Pensions?

And USMB Right Wingers think we should be "more like China"? And China is stealing American "liberal ideas"?

Come on people. Surely you can see the humor.

Doesn't this entirely undermine your recurring meme that the GOP wants the kind of economic prosperity that China is cultivating?

I await your not so clever spin.

On a serious note, Chinese officials know that their society is highly stratified as a result of prosperity and they are scared shitless that the Jasmine Revolution might unravel their entire nation. They want to spread the wealth and strengthen their middle class.

But this isn't entirely different from the House of Saud offering up $26 billion in condolences to placate any civil unrest before it begins.

But is at least a little bit different. China doesn't have the kind of corruption that plagues the Americas and Europe. Japanese and Chinese have real social identities that are not completely subordinated by caste or class.

They hang their Madoffs for screwing up the baby formula recipe. Nobody is too big to fail in China.

Spin? Hilarious. You think China "doesn't have the kind of corruption that plagues the Americas and Europe"?

I keep telling right wingers to DO SOME RESEARCH!

The darker the red, the worse the corruption.

If all you know is right wing lies and bullshit, it's impossible to "debate".

The GOP and their "minions" only see China's "dollars". How China is getting those "dollars", they don't stop to consider. In fact, I suspect they think China is getting it from cutting corporate taxes, cutting taxes on the rich, defunding education, cutting any programs that builds up the country's infrastructure and removing any laws that protect the environment. That's all "One Trick Pony" Republicans know in this country. I suspect they think their failed policies will work overseas. Well, they don't work overseas and they don't work here.

How many times have right wingers on the USMB said we should be more like China? My favorite was the person who said, "China isn't really communist. The head of the country is more like a CEO". Couldn't ya just die?

 

[rdean]

The government must combat corruption and promote clean government. Officials who abuse power for personal gain, neglect their duties, or infringe upon the rights of others will be prosecuted and punished.

I wish the US would do that. Remember that the least transparent President in US history is still President.

What the fuck has Obama done so far?

You might actually review what Obama has done so far.

Just saying something doesn't make it true.

Launched recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, providing transparency and allowing the public to report fraud, waste, or abuse

http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/default.aspx

Voluntary disclosure of White House visitors for the first time in US history

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records

You know, if that had been in place during the Bush years, we would know where "Jeff Gannon" slept during his many, many overnight stays at the White House. Wonder if he was "paid" his "going rate"?

Oops.

 

[skeptic]

Spin? Hilarious. You think China "doesn't have the kind of corruption that plagues the Americas and Europe"?

Obviously they don't, they hang their Madoffs.

I keep telling right wingers to DO SOME RESEARCH!

The darker the red, the worse the corruption.

Sorry, tuna breath. Subjective determinations of transparency do not = corruption.

If all you know is right wing lies and bullshit, it's impossible to "debate".

spoken like a complete hypocrite. I don't "know" any rw lies or bullshit. But you don't have a byte of data in your processor that isn't owned and operated by the DNC. IOW the corruption and organized crime arm of the democratic party. The arm financed by folks who share allegiances to Israel.

 

[rdean]

Spin? Hilarious. You think China "doesn't have the kind of corruption that plagues the Americas and Europe"?

Obviously they don't, they hang their Madoffs.

I keep telling right wingers to DO SOME RESEARCH!

The darker the red, the worse the corruption.

Sorry, tuna breath. Subjective determinations of transparency do not = corruption.

If all you know is right wing lies and bullshit, it's impossible to "debate".

spoken like a complete hypocrite. I don't "know" any rw lies or bullshit. But you don't have a byte of data in your processor that isn't owned and operated by the DNC. IOW the corruption and organized crime arm of the democratic party. The arm financed by folks who share allegiances to Israel.

Subjective Transparency? Funny, I work at a company that makes it mandatory for everyone to attend classes on "World Wide Corruption". This is the map they use. The class is presented by a team of lawyers.

I'll be sure to tell them they are wasting their money because you know better. Gee, you must have a lot of experience doing business with China.

 

[skeptic]

I will be sure and pick up a corruptamometer at the hardware store today to verify your lawyer's data, friend.

Meanwhile stay yellow. Like only a nation of self serving, white, christian men can.

You did notice that your fantasy map correlates corruption as being relative to the number of white people, vs brown folk, in each nation right? The more brown folks, the more corruption. What a thing of beauty.

 

[rdean]

I will be sure and pick up a corruptamometer at the hardware store today to verify your lawyer's data, friend.

Meanwhile stay yellow. Like only a nation of self serving, white, christian men can.

You did notice that your fantasy map correlates corruption as being relative to the number of white people, vs brown folk, in each nation right? The more brown folks, the more corruption. What a thing of beauty.

Chinese are "brown"? I will be sure to tell them that. Meanwhile, they continue to sell tainted milk and carcinogenic sheet rock. Oops, sounds like "corruption". Have a drink on me. Here, use this, a new glass, straight from China.

Chinese-Made Drinking Glasses Contain 1000 Times Allowable Levels Of Lead

How Do You Know If You Have Toxic Chinese Drywall?
Important Information About The Chinese Sheetrock Recall

Powdered Milk Crisis
Sanlu Group Powdered Milk Crisis timeline | Timetoast timelines

 

[skeptic]

Lead glass is a variety of glass in which lead replaces the calcium content of a typical potash glass.[1] Lead glass contains typically 18–40 weight% lead(II) oxide (PbO), while modern lead crystal, historically also known as flint glass due to the original silica source, contains a minimum of 24% PbO.[2] Lead glass is desirable owing to its decorative properties.

Technically, the term crystal is not applied to glass, as glass, by definition, lacks a crystalline structure. The use of the term lead crystal remains popular for historical and commercial reasons, and originally stems from the Venetian use of the word cristallo to describe the rock crystal imitated by Murano glassmakers. This naming convention has been maintained to the present day to describe decorative hollow-ware.

It has been proposed that the historic association of gout with the upper classes in Europe and America was, in part, caused by their extensive use of lead crystal decanters to store fortified wines and whisky.[9] Lin et al. have statistical evidence linking gout to lead poisoning.[10]

Items made of lead glass may leach lead into the food and beverages contained.[11][12] In a study performed at North Carolina State University[13], the amount of lead migration was measured for Port wine stored in lead crystal decanters. After two days, lead levels were 89 µg/L (micrograms per liter). After four months, lead levels were between 2,000 and 5,000 µg/L. White wine doubled its lead content within an hour of storage and tripled it within four hours. Some brandy stored in lead crystal for over five years had lead levels around 20,000 µg/L.[14][15] To put this into perspective, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's lead standard for drinking water is 15 µg/L = 15 parts per billion.[16] Citrus juices and other acidic drinks leach lead from crystal as effectively as alcoholic beverages. When lead-glass beverage containers are used in the ordinary usual way they do not pose a health risk.[17][18] Under conditions of repeated use of the decanter, the lead leaching steeply decreases with increasing use. This finding is "consistent with ceramic chemistry theory, which predicts that leaching of Pb from crystal is self-limiting exponentially as a function of increasing distance from the crystal-liquid interface."[18] Lead leaching still occurs, but the quantity that leaches into a glass of wine or other beverage let stand for a few hours is much smaller than the quantity of lead consumed daily in ordinary diet. An ordinary diet contains about 70 µg of lead per day.

Lead glass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[skeptic]

Chinese are "brown"?

Yes Chinese are brown when in the context of the classic White man/brown man dichotomy.

Speaking of dichotomies, doesn't this thread entirely undermine your recurring meme that the GOP wants the kind of economic prosperity that China is cultivating?

 

[Polk]

Obama want's to be President of China because they're Communist. Quite telling I think.

Congrats on making shit up.

 

[konkon]

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NPCWorkReportEng.pdf

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NDRCReportEng.pdf

China's National People's Congress 2011: The Reports (Full Text) - China Real Time Report - WSJ

Daniel K. Gardner: China Announces Priorities for Next Five Years

GDP is to grow by 7% annually over the next five years.

Prices are rising too quickly and should be stabilized.

Government funding for rural areas, farmers, and agriculture must be increased.

The widening income gap must be closed: the government will raise the minimum wage of workers, increase the subsistence allowance for urban and rural residents, reduce the tax burden on low- and middle-income people, and control wage scales in industries where incomes tend to become disproportionately high.

The social security system must be expanded and improved and the benefits raised: basic pension insurance and basic medical insurance systems should cover all urban and rural residents; and low-income housing should be made available to 20% of the country's urban households.

Conserve natural resources and protect the environment: the country must increase the proportion of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to 11.4%; reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16%: and reduce CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 17%

The government must combat corruption and promote clean government. Officials who abuse power for personal gain, neglect their duties, or infringe upon the rights of others will be prosecuted and punished.

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The GDP aim is interesting. Surely many will be aiming for much higher GDP (again).

So how should prices be stabilized? I can't see this happening any time soon.

Actually the rest looks highly unlikely too.

 

[Lyte]

Obama want's to be President of China because they're Communist. Quite telling I think.

First rule of communism is the destruction of private property. No such thing exist in a communist state, everything is owned "by the people".

China is a totalitarian capitalistic state.

 

[editec]

China is probably beginning its progressive phase -- rather like that progressive phrase of national development the West went through from the last 19th century through the early 20th century.

Unlike our masters, of course.

Masters of the WEST have been slowly abandoning any sense of national pride or concern for the people of the nations that they've controlled in the last 50 years or so.

Our WESTERN ATLASES are shrugging off nationalism in favor of higher profits for their international corporations.

Guess which nation is going to rise to a dominant position in world affairs, and which nations are going to become irrelevant as a result of those two different types of leadership?

Here's a hint...teach your children to speak Mandarin.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NPCWorkReportEng.pdf

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NDRCReportEng.pdf

China's National People's Congress 2011: The Reports (Full Text) - China Real Time Report - WSJ

Daniel K. Gardner: China Announces Priorities for Next Five Years

GDP is to grow by 7% annually over the next five years.

Prices are rising too quickly and should be stabilized.

Government funding for rural areas, farmers, and agriculture must be increased.

The widening income gap must be closed: the government will raise the minimum wage of workers, increase the subsistence allowance for urban and rural residents, reduce the tax burden on low- and middle-income people, and control wage scales in industries where incomes tend to become disproportionately high.

The social security system must be expanded and improved and the benefits raised: basic pension insurance and basic medical insurance systems should cover all urban and rural residents; and low-income housing should be made available to 20% of the country's urban households.

Conserve natural resources and protect the environment: the country must increase the proportion of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to 11.4%; reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16%: and reduce CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 17%

The government must combat corruption and promote clean government. Officials who abuse power for personal gain, neglect their duties, or infringe upon the rights of others will be prosecuted and punished.

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Fucking hilarious. Public option? Narrowing the "income gap"? Tightening regulations? Expand Social Security? Green energy? Low income housing? Pensions?

And USMB Right Wingers think we should be "more like China"? And China is stealing American "liberal ideas"?

Come on people. Surely you can see the humor.

You mean because Progressives have been trying those ideas out in America for 70 years and they still don't work? Yeah that's a fucking riot you Moron!

 

[Quantum Windbag]

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NPCWorkReportEng.pdf

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2011NDRCReportEng.pdf

China's National People's Congress 2011: The Reports (Full Text) - China Real Time Report - WSJ

Daniel K. Gardner: China Announces Priorities for Next Five Years

GDP is to grow by 7% annually over the next five years.

Prices are rising too quickly and should be stabilized.

Government funding for rural areas, farmers, and agriculture must be increased.

The widening income gap must be closed: the government will raise the minimum wage of workers, increase the subsistence allowance for urban and rural residents, reduce the tax burden on low- and middle-income people, and control wage scales in industries where incomes tend to become disproportionately high.

The social security system must be expanded and improved and the benefits raised: basic pension insurance and basic medical insurance systems should cover all urban and rural residents; and low-income housing should be made available to 20% of the country's urban households.

Conserve natural resources and protect the environment: the country must increase the proportion of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to 11.4%; reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16%: and reduce CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 17%

The government must combat corruption and promote clean government. Officials who abuse power for personal gain, neglect their duties, or infringe upon the rights of others will be prosecuted and punished.

--------------------------------------------------------

Fucking hilarious. Public option? Narrowing the "income gap"? Tightening regulations? Expand Social Security? Green energy? Low income housing? Pensions?

And USMB Right Wingers think we should be "more like China"? And China is stealing American "liberal ideas"?

Come on people. Surely you can see the humor.

Does this mean you no longer hate China now that you know they do not support capitalism, believe that the government should be in charge of every part of a person's life, and hate rich people unless they are party members?

By the way, who is it that has been saying we should be more like China? The only one I know of who said anything like that is Barrack Obama.

Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, “No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/world/africa/11policy.html

Please, so not let facts deter you from making wild claims, you never have before.