* Extremes of Two Nations *
US and China are two countries of extremes to each other. It could be the difference in their cultures, their wealth, and/or changing of wealth. It would be best for both countries to move at least 10% away from their extremes.
Spending.
US. Like no tomorrow.
China. Saving for fear of begging in the street.
Health Care.
US. Encourages folks to be lazy, so they get free health care.
China. If you do not pay in yuan, you die.
Foreign countries.
US. Either my puppet or my enemy.
China. Non interference.
Environment.
US. Our pollution is not too high (translation: pollution per capita is).
China. My pollution per capita is not high (translation: total pollution is).
Human rights.
US. Killing for the name of liberty! or keeping our weapon suppliers rich.
China. Lifted 300 millions from poverty. Is this basic human right?
Military might.
US. New carrier with two nuclear generators.
China. 0 carrier.
Justice system.
US. Spent millions and let the guilty free.
China. One bullet for 99.99% guilty and warn millions.
Sports.
US. #1 in all sports. Get them at all costs.
China. Let's get 100 Walmart shoppers and have a race to see which nation is fitter.
Natural resources/farm land.
US. Can support double the current population.
China. Can support half the current population.
Politics.
US. Do everything for votes.
Capitalists act like communists by providing generous welfare.
China. If you do not listen, you disappear.
Communists act like capitalists by giving prime priority to business.
Education.
US. We've most Nobel's prize winners.
China. Our 6th graders can beat your college graduates in science and maths.
Model for youths.
US. If you give me one good model, I give you 10 bad models (like married politicians with outside affairs).
China. If you give me one bad model, I give you 10 good models.
Gun control.
US. Need guns for the wild, wild cities.
China. Thanks NRA for allowing us to sell them to your citizens.
View each other.
US. Job snatcher, banker.
China. Job provider, loaner.
My ridicule.
US. Nothing.
China. Me and my ridicule 'evaporate' from earth.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
A nation of no losers
* A Nation of No Losers *
We do not let you be a loser!
Your mistakes will be rewarded handsomely.
When you bought a clunker that you should not have, we give you $4,500.
When you bought a mansion that you cannot afford, we're going to bail you out.
When you bought any inefficient appliance or anything, we'll pay you no matter how old they are.
When you lost your job, we extend your benefit.
When you do not have saving, we give you free health care.
When you have saving or a job, we take away your health care.
Teenagers, the more babies you have, the more benefits you have.
Drunk drivers, no one will prosecute you as the entire jury and even the judge are drunk.
Old ladies, your driver's license is also a license to kill.
Black kids, special pass to go to college and jobs.
Prisoners, you will get the flu shots first and free dental care.
Fatsos, do not worry as our up-coming drugs will melt all your fat while you sleep.
All athletes are rewarded with millions for taking drugs.
We voice loudly and disapprovingly on foreign athletes doing same.
It is an America invention!
When you cheated billions, you can retire in a resort-like 'prison'.
Also, the billions your wife hid is hers - no questions asked.
No other developed country lets their citizens own guns.
NRA and his puppet politicians will give you millions of funny 'reasons'.
When your company fails, we bail it out.
The executives are rewarded with bailout money for bringing down a company.
You die penniless, we give you $500.
You die with millions, we share your wealth.
The small catch.
We need you to re-elect us in 4 years.
The children cannot vote today, so let's pass our debts to them.
China does not have a voice here, so let's pass all the blames to them.
Even the entire world agree with us.
Our president is awarded the Nobel prize for doing nothing for peace, so why you need to work hard?
We do not let you be a loser!
Your mistakes will be rewarded handsomely.
When you bought a clunker that you should not have, we give you $4,500.
When you bought a mansion that you cannot afford, we're going to bail you out.
When you bought any inefficient appliance or anything, we'll pay you no matter how old they are.
When you lost your job, we extend your benefit.
When you do not have saving, we give you free health care.
When you have saving or a job, we take away your health care.
Teenagers, the more babies you have, the more benefits you have.
Drunk drivers, no one will prosecute you as the entire jury and even the judge are drunk.
Old ladies, your driver's license is also a license to kill.
Black kids, special pass to go to college and jobs.
Prisoners, you will get the flu shots first and free dental care.
Fatsos, do not worry as our up-coming drugs will melt all your fat while you sleep.
All athletes are rewarded with millions for taking drugs.
We voice loudly and disapprovingly on foreign athletes doing same.
It is an America invention!
When you cheated billions, you can retire in a resort-like 'prison'.
Also, the billions your wife hid is hers - no questions asked.
No other developed country lets their citizens own guns.
NRA and his puppet politicians will give you millions of funny 'reasons'.
When your company fails, we bail it out.
The executives are rewarded with bailout money for bringing down a company.
You die penniless, we give you $500.
You die with millions, we share your wealth.
The small catch.
We need you to re-elect us in 4 years.
The children cannot vote today, so let's pass our debts to them.
China does not have a voice here, so let's pass all the blames to them.
Even the entire world agree with us.
Our president is awarded the Nobel prize for doing nothing for peace, so why you need to work hard?
Being a Chinaman
Hi Ding Bai,
Wow! Just one day, you learn a lot about the rest of US outside your NYC village. Welcome to America finally!
(Please see the refreshing post by Ding Bai above)
Prejudice and ignorance come hand-in-hand and your experience is a living proof of that. I do not blame the old generation in an isolated part of US as their image of a Chinaman is some one with a pigtail working in railroad, laundry or a Chinese restaurant that serves cat meat.
Denny’s had a poor reputation in racial harmony. They suffered from a lawsuit of not serving black and lost. They never learn. I skip going to Denny’s for life even for their free breakfasts!
A Chinese professor at U. Mass. at Amhert wrote in the college newspaper 35 years ago, “If you do not believe a Chinese can teach in college, please come to room 1234 in Engineering Building.”
I have my share of discrimination experience:
* When I was in beautiful Calgary 25 years ago with my American female co-worker in the annual Stampede Festival, every one starred at us like we’re UFOs.
* After I got the highest award in my department, some managers treated me very rudely and had a lot racial remarks on me behind my back – and the remarks came back to me (intentionally?). My work place was a phone company in Mass. with a lot of uneducated Irish playing politics all day long.
* I never play my Chinese card except once. When I got a bad table (even I was the first one in) in a Vegas show. It could due to no tips to the guy leading me to a table but it could be racially motivated. They’re scared to hell when I shouted for seeing their supervisor and they gave me the best table. I could have too many drinks and that scared my wife. From then no, no more Mr. Nice guys to racists.Effective health care delivery
-- Effective health care delivery --
1. Basic treatments for all. Better coverage is paid by individual. We encourage folks to work hard and there is no more free lunch. It is abnormal for the poor to have free health care while the middle class cannot afford to have same.
Low incomers and/or those without a house most likely can receive free nursing home care, free drugs and free doctor visits in most states like Mass. Those in borderline cheat by giving their houses to their children, hide their incomes or just quit.
2. The government should spend an agreed % of GNP on public health care - you cannot ignore other spending like education... or let the budget unbalanced irresponsibly.
When we over spend in any entitlement, we need to hike taxes, and then we're no longer competitive globally and hence our unemployment will be increased.
3. Prevention: voluntary and non-voluntary (via taxes) on smoking, fast food, soda... It is fair for the citizens to take care of their own health. You can select to live recklessly in unhealthy life style, but the rest of us should not pay for your bad decision.
When we ban smoking totally, we would not need so many hospitals and use so much resources. In addition, the second-hand smoke kills too. Why we die for your bad behavior?
4. Limit lawsuit award on malpractice. Our health care cost is being jacked up due to part of it goes to lawyers.
Most do not realize those awards will pass back to us. It is also why the doctor would hesitate to care for you when you fall and lie in the street or why your clinical charges are so high.
5. State-of-the-art treatments are less effective than prevention such as a low-dosage aspirin for all over 50 years of age and shots for babies/children.
6. Outsourcing expensive treatments to foreign countries and drug development/clinical tests. Our costs are outrageously high. Try Thailand and Shanghai. The money we save pays for a free vacation, not mentioning the free massage every day for the entire trip.
This is a temporary solution until we solve our cost problem.
7. Cut down expensive drug marketing (like giving money/goodies to doctors).
Personally I know doctors receiving free golf trips to the most expensive golf course for the entire family. They also got unlimited lobsters in doctors' conventions I know. Should the doctor receive the 'lecture fee' giving lecture or sales pitch to one or two attendees with at least one from the drug company?
Guess who end up paying for these goodies eventually?
8. Stop illegals and foreigners from using our medical systems free. Their employers should pay for their expenses.
Emergency room is the most expensive delivery method and its usage have been abused.
9. Importing foreign doctors and nurses is the worst we can do to a poor country. They are seeking a better economic life for themselves, but forget their original purpose of seeking their careers.
10. Before we send soldiers abroad or explore space (both have some merits but not cost effective to the average citizen), should we solve our home problems such as health care first? Get our priority straight.
11. The average last two years of one's life would be the most expensive health care cost. Many do not want to live thru pains and sufferings. Should we let them pass away in peace if they want to?
12. Stem cell is proven to be promising. We should not let our politicians dictate the policy for religious reasons. When some have no choice, they will go to foreign countries to receive the riskiest treatments. Why let them know their risk and let them do here in a better environment?
1. Basic treatments for all. Better coverage is paid by individual. We encourage folks to work hard and there is no more free lunch. It is abnormal for the poor to have free health care while the middle class cannot afford to have same.
Low incomers and/or those without a house most likely can receive free nursing home care, free drugs and free doctor visits in most states like Mass. Those in borderline cheat by giving their houses to their children, hide their incomes or just quit.
2. The government should spend an agreed % of GNP on public health care - you cannot ignore other spending like education... or let the budget unbalanced irresponsibly.
When we over spend in any entitlement, we need to hike taxes, and then we're no longer competitive globally and hence our unemployment will be increased.
3. Prevention: voluntary and non-voluntary (via taxes) on smoking, fast food, soda... It is fair for the citizens to take care of their own health. You can select to live recklessly in unhealthy life style, but the rest of us should not pay for your bad decision.
When we ban smoking totally, we would not need so many hospitals and use so much resources. In addition, the second-hand smoke kills too. Why we die for your bad behavior?
4. Limit lawsuit award on malpractice. Our health care cost is being jacked up due to part of it goes to lawyers.
Most do not realize those awards will pass back to us. It is also why the doctor would hesitate to care for you when you fall and lie in the street or why your clinical charges are so high.
5. State-of-the-art treatments are less effective than prevention such as a low-dosage aspirin for all over 50 years of age and shots for babies/children.
6. Outsourcing expensive treatments to foreign countries and drug development/clinical tests. Our costs are outrageously high. Try Thailand and Shanghai. The money we save pays for a free vacation, not mentioning the free massage every day for the entire trip.
This is a temporary solution until we solve our cost problem.
7. Cut down expensive drug marketing (like giving money/goodies to doctors).
Personally I know doctors receiving free golf trips to the most expensive golf course for the entire family. They also got unlimited lobsters in doctors' conventions I know. Should the doctor receive the 'lecture fee' giving lecture or sales pitch to one or two attendees with at least one from the drug company?
Guess who end up paying for these goodies eventually?
8. Stop illegals and foreigners from using our medical systems free. Their employers should pay for their expenses.
Emergency room is the most expensive delivery method and its usage have been abused.
9. Importing foreign doctors and nurses is the worst we can do to a poor country. They are seeking a better economic life for themselves, but forget their original purpose of seeking their careers.
10. Before we send soldiers abroad or explore space (both have some merits but not cost effective to the average citizen), should we solve our home problems such as health care first? Get our priority straight.
11. The average last two years of one's life would be the most expensive health care cost. Many do not want to live thru pains and sufferings. Should we let them pass away in peace if they want to?
12. Stem cell is proven to be promising. We should not let our politicians dictate the policy for religious reasons. When some have no choice, they will go to foreign countries to receive the riskiest treatments. Why let them know their risk and let them do here in a better environment?
US permissibility
This is my theory of permissibility (for lack of a better term). When a country is getting too rich, she tends to be more permissible. US has a lot of examples:
* Obesity, drug, liquor abuse are acceptable in the society. Drunk drivers have mild punishment - the jurors (drunk themselves) let them go easy. Actors with drug abuse are still be idolized. The society needs to adapt to fat folks like wider seats in the air planes and buses instead of eating healthier food and doing more exercise.
* Failed businesses are not allowed to fail by bailout money.
* Instead of training our kids to harder education in science, just hire foreigners.
* Encourage folks to be lazy. If you have a job at McDonald's, you are not qualified to free medical delivery. Encourage 3 generations of teenage mothers by our generous social system. Hire foreigners for jobs no one wants to do as total compensation will be less if s/he works.
* We encourage to borrow money and spend like no tomorrow. With less taxes due to less employment and less income from corporations, we just print more money, and/or borrow more from our trader partners, even they're many times poorer than us.
* How easy to blame all our problems on others than ourselves? China should spend more, buy more from us, float their currency... and learn our bad habits!
On the bright side, most US problems can be fixed easily compared to most other countries. It is still a rich country in term of natural resources/farm land per capita. We need to tighten our belt and not to fight wars we cannot afford. Let them fight for their own freedom.
* Obesity, drug, liquor abuse are acceptable in the society. Drunk drivers have mild punishment - the jurors (drunk themselves) let them go easy. Actors with drug abuse are still be idolized. The society needs to adapt to fat folks like wider seats in the air planes and buses instead of eating healthier food and doing more exercise.
* Failed businesses are not allowed to fail by bailout money.
* Instead of training our kids to harder education in science, just hire foreigners.
* Encourage folks to be lazy. If you have a job at McDonald's, you are not qualified to free medical delivery. Encourage 3 generations of teenage mothers by our generous social system. Hire foreigners for jobs no one wants to do as total compensation will be less if s/he works.
* We encourage to borrow money and spend like no tomorrow. With less taxes due to less employment and less income from corporations, we just print more money, and/or borrow more from our trader partners, even they're many times poorer than us.
* How easy to blame all our problems on others than ourselves? China should spend more, buy more from us, float their currency... and learn our bad habits!
On the bright side, most US problems can be fixed easily compared to most other countries. It is still a rich country in term of natural resources/farm land per capita. We need to tighten our belt and not to fight wars we cannot afford. Let them fight for their own freedom.
Generous social welfare
To me, welfare is a temporary fix and a safety net. In US, we have three generations of teenage mothers. When the system is too generous, people tend to be lazy (I believe laziness is human nature - leave it for another topic some day) and take advantage of. A lot of abuses. Our local newspapers and friends always point out these abuses.
My friend told me there were a gang of young folks playing the motor cycles the entire day. I knew some but not all are collecting ‘disability insurance from the government.’
The newspaper reported last month that a ‘disabled’ fireman participated in a body builder contest. We had one incident almost every month.
The aliens (most illegal) know how to take advantage of our welfare system which is not connected to immigration system. Steve mentioned some in his previous post. There are books teaching folks in Taiwan how to have a rich life in US without spending their own saving.
As I said before, China and US are extremes. I do not see many homeless in China as folks there take care of themselves and depend on themselves more as they do not have a safety net like US. That’s a good thing. I bet every beggar in Beijing has a sad story behind.
US becomes a permissible society with the riches. I’m pro sharing the riches of the society and that’s what the high taxes are for. But, the generous welfare could discourage folks to work hard. As in my last post, who wants to work when your total benefits would be reduced when you work? Same for saving. If you have over 1,000 in a bank account, you’re not eligible for the $800 monthly social security supplement.
Sorry the state is confusing to folks outside US. The entitlements come in two parts: federal government and the state (like California or Mass.). The state like Mass. tries to balance the budget by releasing mental retards from the hospitals earlier than necessary. The drunks are addicts are the products of permissible society to me. They have to help themselves first and the state has to take some action to solve their root problems. Giving them money is not a solution but help them to buy the next drug or liquor. With the generous housing subsidy, free medical help, food stamps…, I wonder why these folks cannot survive in US.
I’m not in social science but just use my common sense. It is over-simplified for discussion via my observation. I see government wasted a lot of money in the welfare projects that did not fare well. Examples abundant: dismantle the housing for the poor due to no security police, best equipment to schools with students who do not want to learn… Not OK when we do not learn from past mistakes.
My friend told me there were a gang of young folks playing the motor cycles the entire day. I knew some but not all are collecting ‘disability insurance from the government.’
The newspaper reported last month that a ‘disabled’ fireman participated in a body builder contest. We had one incident almost every month.
The aliens (most illegal) know how to take advantage of our welfare system which is not connected to immigration system. Steve mentioned some in his previous post. There are books teaching folks in Taiwan how to have a rich life in US without spending their own saving.
As I said before, China and US are extremes. I do not see many homeless in China as folks there take care of themselves and depend on themselves more as they do not have a safety net like US. That’s a good thing. I bet every beggar in Beijing has a sad story behind.
US becomes a permissible society with the riches. I’m pro sharing the riches of the society and that’s what the high taxes are for. But, the generous welfare could discourage folks to work hard. As in my last post, who wants to work when your total benefits would be reduced when you work? Same for saving. If you have over 1,000 in a bank account, you’re not eligible for the $800 monthly social security supplement.
Sorry the state is confusing to folks outside US. The entitlements come in two parts: federal government and the state (like California or Mass.). The state like Mass. tries to balance the budget by releasing mental retards from the hospitals earlier than necessary. The drunks are addicts are the products of permissible society to me. They have to help themselves first and the state has to take some action to solve their root problems. Giving them money is not a solution but help them to buy the next drug or liquor. With the generous housing subsidy, free medical help, food stamps…, I wonder why these folks cannot survive in US.
I’m not in social science but just use my common sense. It is over-simplified for discussion via my observation. I see government wasted a lot of money in the welfare projects that did not fare well. Examples abundant: dismantle the housing for the poor due to no security police, best equipment to schools with students who do not want to learn… Not OK when we do not learn from past mistakes.
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