The invested interests spend so much national wealth in preparing the Olympic Games to blandish the international, launch so much propaganda about the 2008 Olympics to gloss over official corruption and social inequality! At the last National People's Congress session, China's Wen wowed discretionarily for the "Chinese's enthusiasm for the 2008 Olympics" - ignoring the voices of naysayers. Many feel the GDP comes from inflation. houses and food are all more expensive. China is falling into the capitalism seen in the 1800s, before the October Revolution. Most recent and upcoming college graduates from all over China squash in fancy metropolises, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc, while other provinces remain stagnant. Next spring, Chinese colleges and universities expect a record 4.95 million graduates, up 820,000 from this year. More than a million of them will wind up jobless, according to estimates. The proportion of people's salaries to GDP has been falling year after year.The M2/GDP ratio is unusually high, 200% in 2005. No participate in it! No watch the games! No buy the mementos! Socialist Party China
With any luck, the air pollution will be cleaned up sufficiently that the participants won't suffer asthma attacks !!!
With regard to pollution levels they are where the US was in the 1970's. Check out photos of LA, NYC and Chicago in those days. A yellowish brown haze hovered over the metro areas. NOTHING close to the haze that can be seen today. Chemical filled rivers smelled and were full of trash, oil and sewage. If you hung your laundry out to dry in Pittsburgh it would turn black from the steel mills belching smoke into the air. It took a forward thinking Clean Air Act to get us where we are today.
With any luck the Chinese Communists will show the world how evil they are by introducing a "shoot Tibetan pilgrims" contest in the 2008 Olympiad.
Reactionary and silly, reckless remarks like this are what keep Americans looking like buffoons to the rest of the world. If the US were hosting the '08 Olympics would the US open fire on all the teams coming from Islamic countries? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Would a US '08 Olympics target Muslim men for rape and torture? Waterboarding for the Uzbek team? Electric shock for the Iraqi team? Or would the US sweep all the Muslims up upon arrival and send them to secret prisons?
Big deal - they just stay home and commit their atrocities... Or does Human Rights Watch.org have this "Beijing Olympics Watch" going for shits & giggles ? http://hrw.org/campaigns/china/beijing08/ Heck - the joint is a regular Utopia ! http://hrw.org/doc/?t=asia&c=china
The 2008 Olympic games will be the best and brightest ever. The only problem I have is that it's in horribly different time zone as mine, ARGH! BTW, do you have any sources to your "facts"? I just want to see them.
I believe the socialists. They said that North Vietnam was a Utopia. They said that North Korea was a Utopia. They said that Cuba was a Utopia. They said that the U.S.S.R. was a Utopia. With that track record, China MUST be a Utopia!
I read somewhere that electric scooters were banned in Beijing becaue the government didnt want the citizens to 'look' poor...or some such. That alone would be enough for a boycott. Seriously, Im all for a boycott for a number of reasons...its an enormous waste of resources for any nation.
Every Socialist/Communist apologist claims all life has been wonderful in said nations, or conversely, discusses the magical "Communism/Socialism that never existed but was corrupted by those Evil Russians!"
