Her Lao
2014-11-20 20:01:39 UTC
http://news.yahoo.com/former-top-china-military-officer-hoarded-cash-jade-110327707.html
Odd but unsurprising news.
When --- in some future time --- the Communist Party of China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, and North Korea have ceased to exist on earth, people would have a field day discovering giant mansions and other exclusive and hide-away treasures and vacation homes all over the world...
Remember, I am NOT saying leaders of PLURALISTIC societies --- leaders like Bush, Clinton, Obama, et al ---- don't own vast properties and riches; they DO indeed.
I simply wanted to point out the DIFFERENCE: if you live in PLURALISTIC societies, where very different people with different educational, political, economic, etc. IDEAS exist and compete with/against each other, AND YOU AMASS fortunes, using both legal and illegal means, we BITCH ABOUT IT, too, yes... but we hardly care or think interesting....
But when you live in a SINGLE-PARTY society, where ONLY ONE IDEOLOGY IS ALLOWED and that is that there is ONE CORRECT WAY, ONE CORRECT IDEOLOGY to operate by, and THAT IS THAT THE CITIZENS OWN ALL THE WEALTH AND LAND AND PROPERTIE ---- and those in government are there to HELP THE PEOPLE, not themselves ---- and you find very powerful generals or business men who are friends of the ONLY ONE PARTY ALLOWED IN THE LAND.... owning vast wealth.... not only the world's people laugh at you but YOUR OWN LOCAL CITIZENS think that is really a bad thing!
Because that kind of unsophisticated HYPOCRASY is too blatant.
Odd but unsurprising news.
When --- in some future time --- the Communist Party of China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, and North Korea have ceased to exist on earth, people would have a field day discovering giant mansions and other exclusive and hide-away treasures and vacation homes all over the world...
Remember, I am NOT saying leaders of PLURALISTIC societies --- leaders like Bush, Clinton, Obama, et al ---- don't own vast properties and riches; they DO indeed.
I simply wanted to point out the DIFFERENCE: if you live in PLURALISTIC societies, where very different people with different educational, political, economic, etc. IDEAS exist and compete with/against each other, AND YOU AMASS fortunes, using both legal and illegal means, we BITCH ABOUT IT, too, yes... but we hardly care or think interesting....
But when you live in a SINGLE-PARTY society, where ONLY ONE IDEOLOGY IS ALLOWED and that is that there is ONE CORRECT WAY, ONE CORRECT IDEOLOGY to operate by, and THAT IS THAT THE CITIZENS OWN ALL THE WEALTH AND LAND AND PROPERTIE ---- and those in government are there to HELP THE PEOPLE, not themselves ---- and you find very powerful generals or business men who are friends of the ONLY ONE PARTY ALLOWED IN THE LAND.... owning vast wealth.... not only the world's people laugh at you but YOUR OWN LOCAL CITIZENS think that is really a bad thing!
Because that kind of unsophisticated HYPOCRASY is too blatant.