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2009-02-02 China-Japan-Koreas

China: Up to 26 million migrants now jobless

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Posted by ed 2009-02-02 11:28|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 the tinder accumulates

Posted by liberalhawk 2009-02-02 12:32|| 2009-02-02 12:32|| Front Page Top

#2 "that allocates less than 5% to public works."

I thought you guys preferred tax cuts.

Posted by liberalhawk 2009-02-02 12:33|| 2009-02-02 12:33|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not a tax cut: In its centerpiece tax cut, single workers would gain $500 and couples $1,000, even if they don't earn enough to owe federal income taxes.

Posted by ed 2009-02-02 12:41|| 2009-02-02 12:41|| Front Page Top

#4 the tinder accumulates

Along the lines of what I was thinking.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-02-02 13:21|| 2009-02-02 13:21|| Front Page Top

#5 LH: we kind of prefer actual tax cuts, as opposed to one-time welfare grants wearing novelty glasses and a fake mustache. Not that Bush didn't repeatedly pull the same crap stunt...

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-02-02 13:31|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-02 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd put them to work putting out coal mine fires.

Posted by Penguin 2009-02-02 14:08|| 2009-02-02 14:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Huge digital TV orders will soon be arriving from the US. Until then, think roads, bridges, and dams, infrasture development.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-02 14:13|| 2009-02-02 14:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Yah, but all have rural roots. Moving back to the farm isn't really a tragedy. And 26 million isn't a large number in China.

Posted by Tsin Tsin 2009-02-02 16:54|| 2009-02-02 16:54|| Front Page Top

#9 True public works like real infrastructure development in the interior versas dig a hole - fill in a hole would let off a lot of social steam and would improve China as a whole. As for 26 million not being that many people in China, who many did Mao start out with in the 1930s?

Posted by Shieldwolf 2009-02-02 17:24|| 2009-02-02 17:24|| Front Page Top

#10 I read many years ago that the main purpose of wars was to eliminate the excess male population.

Posted by Rednek Jim">Rednek Jim 2009-02-02 20:16|| 2009-02-02 20:16|| Front Page Top

#11 How ya gonna keep em, down on the farm
After they've seen Beijing?

*rimshot*

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-02-02 22:45|| 2009-02-02 22:45|| Front Page Top

#12 "How ya gonna keep em, down on the farm
After they've seen Beijing?"

How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen the farm, AP?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-02-02 22:54|| 2009-02-02 22:54|| Front Page Top

#13 WORLD MIL FORUM > BRITISH SCHOLARS PREDICT COLLAPSE OF "CHINESE STATE/ECONOMIC MODEL" DUE TO HEAVY ECONOMIC FOREIGN-DEPENDENCY; + CHINA LENDS THE USA AN AVERAGE OF APPROXIMATELY US$40,BILYUHN EVERY DAY???

* SAME > THE NEW OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL DIG THE GRAVES OF AMERICA AND US-WORLD CAPITALISM; + AMERICA OR AMERIKA: WHAT KIND OF USA WILL SURVIVE AND EMERGE FROM THE GLOBAL RECESSION?

POTUS OBAMA + ADMIN [Bam-Man's POTUS Policies] will lead the way and "MAKE OR BREAK" the USA into the OWG World-conquering USSA, or the weak Global SSR USRoA!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-02-02 23:08|| 2009-02-02 23:08|| Front Page Top

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