worldtribune.com — Rand Corporation ...came up with a figure of 23 percent of the workforce being without a job. So, faced with something like 300 million people without jobs, it is easy to see why, despite all the talk about inflation (and pollution), Beijing leadership will always go for growth and providing new jobs. That is true even when threatened by inflation.
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Closed AccountFeb 15, 2008
What was the point of communism again?
srobersonFeb 15, 2008Submitter
Mao/Deng/Zemin/Jintao: "No, really. We're doing it for you! It's really necessary to periodically subjugate x% of the population to 'protect' you from 'counter-revolutionaries', 'bourgeoisies', 'falun gong practitioners', etc.<a class="user" href="http://ninecommentaries.com/">http://ninecommentaries.com/</a>
st00f72Feb 17, 2008
300 million unemployed... hmm that's roughly the # of the entire US population!
hiscityFeb 17, 2008
Hugo Chavez, a Chinese puppet, caused this -- so no crying, eh.
Closed AccountFeb 17, 2008
A significant article on how China caught up with The Western World including the back lash of an overheated economy with a future of growing unemployment. After Beijing 2008 Olympics China’s biggest long-term problem for the central authority will have to start to address the issue in a radical approach to their structural reforms.