China to crack down on official partying

[tabatha]

BEIJING — China is expected to announce a crackdown on lavish parties and seminars organized by officials in the coming year in the latest effort to curb corruption seen as undermining the government.

China's ruling party met Tuesday to address excessive spending on official functions as well as public money spent on cars for officials, the China Daily newspaper reported. Communist Party officials will hold a news conference later Wednesday to release a paper on efforts to fight corruption in 2011.

While bringing vast improvements in quality of life for most Chinese, economic growth has also brought massive corruption and a widening rich-poor gap. Ordinary Chinese frequently complain about the misuse of government money for elaborate banquets and sightseeing trips attended only by bureaucrats, and the Communist leadership have frequently said graft is a major threat to political stability.

In recent years, China has launched numerous anti-graft campaigns. One of the biggest scandals involved the powerful party boss of Shanghai, Chen Liangyu, who was sentenced in 2008 to 18 years in prison for his role in a pension fund scandal.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40836274

[HEyHEY]

1. Pff, I heard this shit last year.. too

[Zanzobar]

2. Sure. Fox, meet henhouse.

[Speck Tater]

3. times 14.2.84 miniplenty malquoted chocolate rectify

... As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a 'categorical pledge' were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984.

[tabatha]

4. I did not comment on this article intentionally.

to see what the responses would be...............

[Zanzobar]

6. And what did you find?

[tabatha]

7. Answers as nonsensical as the article.

[HEyHEY]

8. how is the article nonsensical?

[Zanzobar]

9. Seems straight forward.

"Psycho nutbars restrict people for common good".

Schweet.

[HEyHEY]

10. "And, yet again, pretend to clean up lavish spending"

[Zanzobar]

5. Delete

[OutNow]

11. I'll take China's approach

Chen Liangyu gets 18 years for pension fund scandal ....

Meanwhile, back in the USA, how many years did Lou Gerstner did for the IBM pension fund scandal?

http://www.djurdjevic.com/Bulletins2002/08%28IBM-Pension%29.html

http://www.ibmemployee.com/PDFs/Nashville%20Leas%20Speech.pdf

http://www.mcpressonline.com/analysis/commentary/pension-problems-hold-ibm-in-the-crosshairs-of-controversy.html



Hmmmmmm. Zero.

[tabatha]

12. Yep, that is one view I had considered.

Then one has to consider what China does in other more benign cases.