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2005-03-09 China-Japan-Koreas

China's bloated army of 46m bureaucrats worries ruling elite

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Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-09 10:44:42 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Communism by defin is an -ism of the weak and wannabe - true or pure Leftism is akin to ANARCHISM, NOT UTOPIANISM OR EVEN SOCIALISM. Leftists-Socialists and ultar-Left Commies are self-alleged "RIGHTISTS" [see DAN RATHER] because perennial prioritized Socialist-Big Govt. deficit spending and deficit maintenance won't allow them to afford otherwise. Russia is Communism-centric, and China still per se Communist, cuz they know the Clintons are for them - they like the anti-US agendists are waiting for America to be discredited and ult suborned to their -ism, MOSTLY FROM WITHIN, ala "America is making too many 'mistakes' or 'errors' to risk it NOT being over-regulated" with Big-g-g-er Govt and Betty Crockercrat-ism or PC "Protectionism"!? Commies are REGULATORS, GOVERNMENTISTS, and BUREAUCRATIST now, boyz, NOT "SOCIALISTS", "UTOPIANISTS", or even "LEFTISTS" for the time being!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-03-09 6:32:57 AM|| [http://n/a] 2005-03-09 6:32:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Lefties-Socies-Commies then, can be summed up, amongst other labels, as Regulated anti-Anarchy Anarchists. Can Anarchists = Government/Regulation, ...etc. - Now you know why LISA SIMPSON keeps losing and going to therapy!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-03-09 6:40:49 AM|| [http://n/a] 2005-03-09 6:40:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Bring in the emergency kit of Nested Parentheses and we will eliminate this (an)archy.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-09 8:25:29 AM|| 2005-03-09 8:25:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The irony here is that it's the central government that is bloated and corrupt, not the locals, who try to attract new investment by competing with each other via tax incentives and infrastructure improvements. The central government leeches off the developed provinces and directs tens of billions of dollars a year towards Shanghai and Beijing, where China's mandarins have their power base.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-03-09 9:04:05 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-03-09 9:04:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The central government also keeps on coming up with new ways to screw up domestic electronics producers, by coming up with stupid indigenous standards that nobody wants and that add to production costs. First they need to fire the morons with puffed-up titles who work in these ministries.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-03-09 9:08:00 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-03-09 9:08:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 If China is anything like my experience in India, then most of these bureacrats are more interested in their title than in their salary. Getting them into more productive roles, even with more money, will be difficult if they perceive a "step down" in any fashion.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2005-03-09 9:21:08 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2005-03-09 9:21:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Clean-up on isle 5 ...

Uh, Zhang Fei, doesn't "it's the central government that is bloated and corrupt, not the locals" directly contradict the article stating that the corruption is local? And really, Zhang Fei, you shouldn't be giving THEM hints on how to improve. :P

Wait, isn't the central government diverting to Guangdong as well? Or did something happen (read: Hong Kong) to make Shanghai more "pliable"? (Methinks that the Cantonese-Mandarin divide had something to do with this, is that true?)

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-03-09 9:22:43 AM|| 2005-03-09 9:22:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Old cycle in play. Empire, corruption, revolt, consolidation, empire, corruption, revolt, consolidation; repeat over numerous centuries. The problem for those in power is that with modern technology, everything is just sped up.

Posted by Thrainter Cliling3962 2005-03-09 9:49:50 AM|| 2005-03-09 9:49:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 ha! Good luck trying to fire even one of them.

Posted by 2b 2005-03-09 9:54:11 AM|| 2005-03-09 9:54:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I was chatting with one of my foreigner friends at the bar, and he said, "can you imagine what the Chinese would be like if they were efficient?" We both shuddered at the idea and took another sip of the crappy local KK beer.

Posted by gromky 2005-03-09 6:43:54 PM|| 2005-03-09 6:43:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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