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VanillaRhapsody

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9. China is now the Capitalist Utopia

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 10:13 PM

Feb 2013

they have a tiny group at the top that have most all the money....a handful in a middle class....and a vast vast vast underclass living hungry in poverty. No worker protection....36 hour shifts....living in dorms 12 to a bathroom...

wilth all that....who needs clean air and water?

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Wow- Another photo of Chinese Air pollution- The republican model for our future [View all] n2doc Feb 2013 OP

I have been in Beijing and seen the view in the right. liberal N proud Feb 2013 #1

Everyone breathes the same air badtoworse Feb 2013 #2

From personal experience... Niceguy1 Feb 2013 #3

Come on suck it up.... Historic NY Feb 2013 #5

Don't know Niceguy1 Feb 2013 #6

Please Evergreen Emerald Feb 2013 #8

China has so many people it's willing to let them die young for market advantage. aquart Feb 2013 #4

I was referring to this country in my post badtoworse Feb 2013 #7

Not everyone lives everywhere n2doc Feb 2013 #11

Do you actually know anything about air pollution and the efforts to control it? badtoworse Feb 2013 #12

Ah, the so called expert strikes n2doc Feb 2013 #13

I've developed and managed power plants for 30 years badtoworse Feb 2013 #14

What "broad brush"? Ask any republican their mantra and they will say 'Drill Baby Drill' or JaneyVee Mar 2013 #16

China is now the Capitalist Utopia VanillaRhapsody Feb 2013 #9

It never, ever, got that bad in Mexico City nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #10

Seems like the Chinese . . . Brigid Mar 2013 #15