A Moron(or group of) created this Oxymoron

[HurtinGuy]

Originally Posted by spaceboy761

True as this is, China still has a LONG way to go to bring its overall standard of living up to par with Canada and the rest of the developed world. They're making progress, but there's still a huge portion of the Chinese population that lives on very little. If you think the wealth gap is huge in the US, China's is ridiculous.

You can't compare them at all, Mainland China and Canada or the USA. First, it's still a hybrid communist nation so there isn't supposed to be distribution of wealth. Second, they have approx 1 billion people that still live in rural areas that haven't been touched by today's economic standards. These people grow their own food, make their own clothes, build their own houses, etc. Getting by on a few hundred dollars a years is quite acceptable. The West needs to stop being so arrogant that we compare our standards to other nations ad cultures.

You can only really compare us to Hong Kong but that's a different creature altogether from the Mainland.

[HurtinGuy]

Originally Posted by iluvrubies

John - are you telling me I paid too much for my eggrolls and Mongolian beef last night

I'm saying if you ate that last night someone's probably looking for their dog today.

[spaceboy761]

But hey, what the fuck do I know?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3488228.stm

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/20...16_167590.html

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/articl...parentid=30168

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FG21Ad02.html

http://english.sina.com/china/1/2005/0822/43237.html

[bluffmanxx]

Originally Posted by Moab

Or are you the type that lives in a "liberal" area and have your head so far up your ass that you don't see or understand that liberals like paying taxes.

If they like paying taxes so much, why don't they actually pay more when they can???

It's amazing how people want to tax other people for every idea they have, and they are not willing to step up to the plate themselves