China has 800 million middle class?

[below_freezing]

It's actually more or less mandatory gardening too, because your neighbours expect you to maintain a certain standard of care because otherwise the whole neigbourhood would look bad and that could affect the real estate price of the area.

that's no problem. they can just hire blacks at minimum wage to do it.

this way, they can recreate the feeling of living in pre-civil war US, without the trouble of even housing their slaves.

 

[oceanx]

that's no problem. they can just hire blacks at minimum wage to do it.

this way, they can recreate the feeling of living in pre-civil war US, without the trouble of even housing their slaves.

I see you at least displayed enough sense to edit out the "white men" part ...

Pay attention friend, CardSharp lives in Canada!

Even in the US, from what I saw and what I was told, it's been a while now that more Mexican migrants carry out these menial tasks.

The bits about "antebellum South and slavery" were purely gratuitous.

Just my two cents.

Otherwise informed discussion - pls carry on by all means ...

 

[gpit]

In the U.S. Job and employment statistics are public record. And with a free press that is not hindered in criticizing the Government. There is never a lack of investigative journalists willing to put the Governments feet to the fire. Not so in China, and as a result it is much harder to definitively prove exact figures. However the experts, economists, researchers, intelligence experts, ECT. can get fairly close.

Take a look at this report from 2004 and it will explain how some of those figures are derived in comparison to official state ones. It also tells how the state arrives at it's figures and why it is not accurate.

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/albert.park/papers/unemployment.pdf

Sometimes the under reporting can lead to tragic consequences. Such as when China under reported how sever the flu was in years past.
Is China Cooking the Books on H1N1 Cases? - CBS Evening News - CBS News

Other examples of under reporting is the Chinese defense budget. Though this is done more out of secrecy.
Military budget of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tell us which government doesn't cook data, US democracy or Chinese "commies"? On US side, for instance, reputable rating agents would put AAA on companies that collapse the second day. Yeah, you right, the sub-mortgage shits. Thanks to Wall Street coalition of liars.

US unemployment is 10%? True only for the gullible...

US Unemployment rate already at 20%

... The headline rate only jumped from 9.4% to 9.5% because of a drop in the number of people in the workforce. The more inclusive “U-6″ measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers, jumped from 16.4% to 16.5%. But even this doesn’t adequately capture the situation on the ground: Back in the Clinton Administration, the definition of discouraged worker was changed to only include those that had given up looking for work because there were no jobs to be had within the last year.

By adding these folks back in, William’s SGS-Alternate Unemployment Measure rose to a jaw-dropping 20.6%. Separately, the Center for Labor Market Studies in Boston puts U.S. unemployment at 18.2%. ...