[LINK] Australia and China

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Rick writes,
 
>> A county in central China has ordered officials to smoke nearly a
>> quarter of a million packs of cigarettes ever year, in the hopes of
>> raising tax revenues.
>>
>> Gong'an county told civil servants and teachers to smoke 230,000 packs
>> Those who do not smoke enough .. face being fined, or even fired .. 
>
> $ date
> Tue 5 May 2009 20:00:09 EST  I'm confused with 1 Apr 2009. cheers rickw


Agreed, Rick .. it's astonishing .. and same thought . it must be a joke.

Apparently not.  How can Australia deal with such a govermnent in future?

Kill people painfully, for money? So, capitalism is bad & communism good? 

Simply astonishing.

Cheers,
Stephen