Not only the Iranians, but the EVEN MORE OPPRESSED Chinese have more guts than a lot of Americans (tea partiers excepted, of course).
Posted on 06/18/2009 10:31:57 PM PDT by FreeKeys
Protesters in the south-eastern Chinese city of Nankang have overturned police cars and blocked roads over plans to more strictly enforce payment of taxes.
Officials in Nankang said several hundred protesters blocked a major road while others delivered a petition to a local government office.
[...]China’s official Xinhua news agency said the local government’s plan to more strictly enforce payment of taxes from the furniture makers and dealers has been suspended in the face of the opposition.
Danwei has more details, including a video which seems to have been just recently pulled from the Internet.
Zuihulu has posted photos of the crowds and overturned police cars on Fanfou: Hundreds of people block the main roads and overturn police cars in Nankang in protest over new tax policy.
Hundreds of people block the main roads and overturn police cars in Nankang in protest over stricter tax enforcement on local furniture businesses. Link to Google Map
* Posted by dwang * June 16, 2009 1:58 PM * Category: Economy, Politics, Society, Top Article * Tags: furniture industry, Nankang, protests, taxes
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Not only the Iranians, but the EVEN MORE OPPRESSED Chinese have more guts than a lot of Americans (tea partiers excepted, of course).
Are you paying attention?
“Protesters in the south-eastern Chinese city of Nankang have overturned police cars and blocked roads over plans to more strictly enforce payment of taxes.”
The Western learning process will be delayed.
And we only had tea parties! Imagine if one of us turned over a car—the nets would be wall-to-wall about MORE VIOLENCE FROM RIGHT-WING HATE SQUADS. Just damn. Sad to think that we may have less freedom under Obama than the ChiCom subjects do.
Wow - look at that infrastructure. We should raise taxes and build roads like that.
-White House reaction to Chinese tax riots...
"Is it me, or is it getting warm in here..."
“Wow - look at that infrastructure. We should raise taxes and build roads like that.”
While I wouldn’t necessarily go that far (I know, sarcasm), that is clearly one nice looking highway...and that’s a bit scary considering that we keeping being told that China is a third-world basket case. I suspect that they’re able to build roads of that quality because they don’t have to deal with unions, greenies, and Democrats.
It’s only a matter of time (and not much) before China surpasses us as the world’s #1 economic power...especially if we forfeit that title via carbon credits, Obama care, and financial ruin.
possible ping
Somehow the Chinese get it. Why don’t we? Maybe because the Chinese don’t have time for government school?
Dunno who's got it worse!
Part of the Edward M Kennedy Serve America Act has provisions for large camps of 18-24 yo people in uniforms to work on a variety of things, “infrastructure” being one of them.
China can build nice roads because they can field a few thousand people with shovels for the length of the project. I think that’s one of the goals of this administration in re-creating CCC and WRA camps.
We’ve got such a sense of entitlement here that I fear we could not re-create the Golden Gate or Brooklyn Bridge. We’d spend 30 billion and not get it done a la Massachusetts and their Big Dig.
As for China’s world status, they just loaned us our operating costs for the next few years (we are broke), and they asked for and got more money for “green enterprises” or something. They are already the #1 economic power.
I owe you a great big, huge, apology. I think I had an aneurysm! I came back here to show someone the picture and I saw your post again and I swear I did not see the “White House Commentâ€. Sharp, short, hilarious, a true Freeper characteristic. You can see I do not even rate Boot Camp yet. Thanks for not dinging me I deserve it.
Unlike the China of Vinegar Joe Stilwell’s day, the road in that picture was not built by thousands of coolies with shovels.
I’m sure modern road surfacing machines were involved.
My point is that China can call up lots of people to man the machines, drive the trucks, shovel stuff when needed, get it done, with little fuss. I’ll bet that if a thousand people with shovels were needed for part of that work they were there.
Here, the people involved will demand lots of money and benefits and time off and health care and retirement and union dues and graft and skimming. The fedgov can’t simply demand that I show up ready to run a scarifier.
Another point I was making was that under Serve America, we’ll soon have camps with laborers specially trained to do “infrastructure work” like building roads or resurfacing bridges. I wonder how the unions will like that?
“Another point I was making was that under Serve America, we’ll soon have camps with laborers specially trained to do “infrastructure work” like building roads or resurfacing bridges. I wonder how the unions will like that?”
They unions won’t like it; they’ll LOVE it. Because none of these people will work on real projects until they are released from the camps, and then will be herded into the union, where dues will be collected. Union membership rises, dues increase, all paid by the taxpayer, more voters for the socialists. They all win under that scenario.
They are perfectly happy if we double or triple the number of slack-jawed bugger-eating morons leaning on their shovels next to an orange barrel.
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