Sensible Erection | Chinese province orders government employees to smoke more to boost economy.

Monday, 4 May 2009

Chinese province orders government employees to smoke more to boost economy.

quote [ The edict, issued by officials in Hubei province in central China, threatens to fine officials who "fail to meet their targets" or are caught smoking rival brands manufactured in neighbouring provinces. ]

Talk about counterproductive. I can't wait to hear about the medical system troubles they will have in 20-40 yrs. Perhaps they figure they've got population to spare?

Thumb from here: Chain smoking turtle

[politics] [by sythe@9:20pmGMT] [+10]

Comments

rash1 said @ 9:29pm GMT on 4th May [Score:3 Funny]
It's the libertarians fault!

Hito said @ 1:00am GMT on 5th May [Score:1 Informative]
If they knew they had to smoke then it's on them to move out of poverty-stricken rural government-controlled China. Doy!

manoreason said @ 2:02pm GMT on 5th May
That's right. And clearly this is a failure caused by de-regulating the tobacco companies!

Naruki said @ 12:53am GMT on 6th May
Train rape. Always comes back to train rape.

KropperPrime said @ 9:45pm GMT on 4th May
Taxing fail!

A friend said @ 9:53pm GMT on 4th May
That's racist!

jaxtraw said @ 10:01pm GMT on 4th May
Well, stimulus is stimulus. Doesn't matter what people spend on, so long as they spend on something. Can't have people "hoarding" their money now, can we. It's nice to see the Keynesian revolution has made it through the bamboo curtain. No doubt they will now be rich beyond dreams of avarice as their economy blooms due to the glory of the multiplier.

Rich and dying of lung cancer, yes, but hey... omelettes, eggs, etc.

A friend said @ 10:02pm GMT on 4th May
Fix it again Tony.

ring riot said @ 2:26am GMT on 5th May [Score:1 Insightful]
Please. Jaxtraw. Seriously. Do you have to drop it into every post? Every one? Can't you just skip a couple? Really. You'd find a way to propagate Libertarianism in a post about paraplegic dwarfs giving sloppy head to manta rays. Just give it a rest for a while, okay? For the sake of all that's just and right and true? Please?

donnie said @ 4:51am GMT on 5th May
Well, to be fair, we have a lot of posts which centre around the state dropping itself into the lives of people with negative consequences. If the paraplegic dwarves were being subsidised to give sloppy head to manta rays, he may be justified in bringing it up then too.

ring riot said @ 5:51am GMT on 5th May
Oh, for Christ's sake.

Naruki said @ 10:42am GMT on 5th May
To be even more fair, your political ideology is fucked in the head and is as good for humanity as replacing the theory of evolution with creationism.

Keeping that fact in mind, post it accordingly.

mrcucumber said @ 1:42pm GMT on 5th May
To be more than fair, we also have a lot of posts about human greed, deception, and corruption dropping into the lives of people with negative consequences but we don't all advocate a statism and total redistribution of wealth(and don't even go there).

If the paraplegic dwarves were deceiving, manipulating and skimming profits from the public while pretending to give sloppy head to manta rays we aren't all proposing to ban manta ray head.

Give it up.

Naruki said @ 10:41am GMT on 5th May
Promote. Possibly promulgate. But I hope to grod he isn't actually propagating it.

joeyjoejoe said @ 10:06pm GMT on 4th May [Score:-3]
just reading dave barry's blog and posting links here is pretty lazy.

Homecoming Jester said @ 10:10pm GMT on 4th May
Only two sites on the internet in your neck of the woods?
Damn near every story on the internet comes from "somewhere else".
Or would you prefer that SE be nothing but "Ask SE" post?
Joey, joe, joe, joe ... you're missing the whole point of this "blog" thing ;)

arrowhen said @ 2:42am GMT on 5th May
Five of his last ten posts were either "AskSE"s or what were essentially personal blog posts.

ckfahrenheit said @ 3:06am GMT on 5th May
I DEPEND on material from other sites getting filtered here. I very rarely have time to read other blogs

theolypse said @ 10:16pm GMT on 4th May [Score:1 Underrated]
Who?

sythe said @ 12:15am GMT on 5th May
I haven't read his blog in ages, thanks for reminding me of it.

bruceski said @ 6:56am GMT on 5th May
I haven't read him since he was in the paper.

Silent said @ 9:39am GMT on 5th May
I haven't read his blog, ever.

ckfahrenheit said @ 2:56am GMT on 5th May
Who's Dave Barry?

KingPellinore said @ 4:07pm GMT on 5th May
A very funny man.

kymmy333 said @ 12:06am GMT on 5th May
wow

FifthSpango said @ 7:12am GMT on 5th May [Score:1 Informative]
On a half-related note. I read this the other day, and quite enjoyed it;

Smoking; Lowers Health care Costs?

In which case I want some of the taxes back. You bastichs.

FifthSpango said @ 7:24am GMT on 5th May
Oh, that missed capitalization is hurting now.

f00m@nB@r said @ 8:05pm GMT on 5th May [Score:2]
Cyanide: Lowers Health care costs faster

:D

Adam said @ 11:37am GMT on 5th May
Hubei cigarettes? Why smoke those when you can get sweet, sweet Hongtashan from Yunnan? I've heard that Yellow Crane Tower cigarettes are pretty good, but I was never able to get any.

Wait, what were we talking about? And why is that man letting his turtle smoke?