tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207049570287329796.post4606680901653129692..comments2008-06-16T21:55:48.964-04:00Peter Trachtenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12460301931113593248noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207049570287329796.post-24147814741692012122008-06-16T21:55:48.964-04:002008-06-16T21:55:48.964-04:00I'm not sure China qualifies as a communist country any more. It's more fascism in which the corporations are spin-offs from the communist nomenclature. And of course it's precisely because of that cronyism that various construction firms were able to build schools in Sichuan out of cream of wheat. <BR/><BR/>And communist governments aren't exactly well-known for their solicitude for the people. Mao is estimated to have killed 50 million of them.Peter Trachtenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12460301931113593248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-207049570287329796.post-84945007834536992882008-06-16T09:25:00.000-04:002008-06-16T09:25:00.000-04:00As if anything is NOT better than Bush, this is where communism is better than our system. The huge public works the Chinese have been building like worker bees for so long help the people. Besides that, no one's starving, literacy is up. In a crisis, the government has huge resources to call on. OTOH, they don't want to ruin the Olympics.Erin C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07863103315444922206noreply@blogger.com