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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on January 21, 2012, 01:00:02 PM
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The Secret Document That Transformed China
"Back then, even one straw belonged to the group," says Yen Jingchang, who was a farmer in Xiaogang in 1978. "No one owned anything."
At one meeting with communist party officials, a farmer asked: "What about the teeth in my head? Do I own those?" Answer: No. Your teeth belong to the collective.
In theory, the government would take what the collective grew, and would also distribute food to each family. There was no incentive to work hard — to go out to the fields early, to put in extra effort, Yen Jingchang says.
"Work hard, don't work hard — everyone gets the same," he says. "So people don't want to work."
In Xiaogang there was never enough food, and the farmers often had to go to other villages to beg. Their children were going hungry. They were desperate.
So, in the winter of 1978, after another terrible harvest, they came up with an idea: Rather than farm as a collective, each family would get to farm its own plot of land. If a family grew a lot of food, that family could keep some of the harvest.
National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/20/145360447/the-secret-document-that-transformed-china?ps=cprs)
The headline itself isn't the eye-opening part. The interesting part of the story is that it serves as documented evidence that communism, social control, and central planning DOES NOT WORK. But liberals don't let that stop them, because they know better. They're always the smartest person in the room. Just ask them... they'll tell you.
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Sounds like an almost verbatim retelling of the Pilgrim's original experiment in Communism. Why is it liberals say they're smarter than conservatives, but insist on repeating failed experiments?
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Sounds like an almost verbatim retelling of the Pilgrim's original experiment in Communism. Why is it liberals say they're smarter than conservatives, but insist on repeating failed experiments?
If at first you don't suck seed, try, try again", Bonnie Fwank.
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That is the Rush Limbaugh true story of Thanksgiving, if you've never heard it you should look it up.