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And you thought we had bad traffic jams
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:16 am
by Steve in Golden
No "open road" on the way to Beijing!
China's nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km
Can you imagine being stuck in a 62-mile long traffic jam for nine days?
Re: And you thought we had bad traffic jams
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:16 pm
by Jeff in W.C.
The state-run newspaper said the jam between Beijing and Jining city had given birth to a mini-economy with local merchants capitalising on the stranded drivers' predicament by selling them water and food at inflated prices.
Nice to know capitalism/entrepreneurialism is going strong there.
Re: And you thought we had bad traffic jams
Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:17 pm
by Major Softie
Yeah, they are the weirdest excuse for a "communist" nation. I'm sure the eggheads have cooked up some new title for their odd conglomeration of laissez-faire capitalism and totalitarian socialism. Maybe "Paradoxism."
Re: And you thought we had bad traffic jams
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:03 pm
by enigmaT120
It just totalitarianism. I can't tell it apart from facism, really. They never were really communists in the original meaning of the term, where everything was owned in common.