Chinese rural migrants to the tune of TWENTY MILLION are jobless.
This is a picture of crowds waiting to get into an unemployment office in China.
Twenty MILLION. ruh roh
Good thing they have us to buy their stuff.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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Soon they'll be able to live off the interest of the stimulus package alone.
Papa Frank is right.
What is that? Two percent of the total population? Pfffft.
Mustang, that's true! But, it's still a BUNCH of people!!
Papa and Always.......
of course, if we default on any of the Chinese loans we're dying to get (Rense's piece on some State Dept people saying Hillary signed Eminent Domain agreements abuot ruined my whole day, AOW), they can always have Manhattan; there are a lot of OUR jobs there, huh? After they've kicked Americans out into some "American Zone" ..impoverished, behind barbed wire to keep the good stuff away from us.
Oh, won't the Harvard grads LOVE that? "Divine retribution for that pig capitalist greedy stinking America", huh?
By the way, I just saw a Jewish American young attorney fighting for al Marri, an Arab who had Osama lectures on his computer, had made numerous phone calls to Al Hawari and other really incriminating evidence that he'd been plotting a terrible attack on American soil shortly after 9/11. This attorney was SO in earnest.."got to charge that guy so we can finally defend him"
YOu just grit your teeth, don't you? He'd never had charges...maybe they just didn't have ENOUGH but knew they could never let him go with all they'd found. So, AGAIN, here's a Harvard type SO bent on erring against OUR SAFETY.
that is the craziest picture I've seen in a while. at first I thought it was a new piece of art. i can't even imagine standing with those folks...a little scary.
Mustang: That is 20 million of the 130 million migrant people (they migrate from the rural areas to cities, leaving their families behind) - almost like long range commuters. So that would be approx. 15%. There are additional people who live in the cities who out of work, but I don't know how many.
Normally, I would say like you: Who cares. And may be this whole economic problem convinces some people again in the US to start again doing something which had previously been outsourced to China. On the other hand, if large amount of people in China don't have work, the danger exists that there will be increased emigration - and guess what their preferred country would be..... But one needs to consider also that the Chinese family is much more likely to still be functioning (unlike the U.S. and other Western countries), and that, therefore the tendency would be there that people would take care of each other in large families.
Anyway, enough of that. It is still interesting to note the amount of impact of the economic problem on China.
Mr.Z
They have 1.33 billion people. According to this site,
http://www.indexmundi.com/china/unemployment_rate.html
That's about 4%.
10%, 15%, 4%... 20 million is still a lot of people, but they can sell us back Manhattan once they own it outright and that should help, right?
I thought it was an artsy photo at first, too.
Blessings.
It SURE is a lot of people, no matter what the percentage it represents.
I loved the photo and, since I'm not a big crowd fan, was perversely attracted to it....I love the umbrellas!!
When I first saw the picture, I didn't have my glasses on yet. I thought it was a plate full of jelly beans. Everything reminds me of sweet food, guess that's why I need to shed 25 pounds.
Average, you crack me UP!
You're right about them looking like that!!
Give up sweets for Lent!!
Good thing they have us to buy their stuff.
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Point is they don't have jobs because we aren't buying much. We're broke for a good long time.
If I were the small upper middle class in China, I'd be a little frightened.
You either crack down on human rights (standard move for Kapital or these folks are going to pull you out of your cars and sap you senseless.
The struggle is eternal.
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