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Leanan on May 31, 2007 - 8:44am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

But look at what they rioted over:

The latest riots erupted Tuesday in rural parts of the southern region of Guangxi, apparently in the mistaken belief that the government was reducing its fines for violating family size limits, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

(Emphasis mine.)

They were upset because they thought the government was lowering the fine for having extra kids.

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dinopello on May 31, 2007 - 8:48am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

That's amazing, protesting the lowering of a fine. It must be that children are viewed like pollution. I could see protests here if fines for dumping toxins in the rivers was lowered.

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Leanan on May 31, 2007 - 9:24am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Or...it could be that they paid the higher fine, and are upset that others won't have to.

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Substrate on May 31, 2007 - 9:31am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Or... that the poor people who wouldn't even be able to afford the lower fine don't want to the rich to get off easy, and to have their own One kid swamped by a bunch of rich kids because their parents could pay the reduced fine.

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BobCousins on May 31, 2007 - 1:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Or...it could be that they paid the higher fine, and are upset that others won't have to

You are correct.

See http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK95542.htm

Never believe the MSM! ;)

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Hindmost on May 31, 2007 - 9:30am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I believe that the riots occurred when the people realized that the fines were not, in fact, going to be lowered. The 'mistaken belief' got their hopes up, and they rioted when they were told they were mistaken...

CW
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Global decline rate, Post peak: 2%
Economic response: Severe global recession, ~5 years, then slow recovery

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jturpin on May 31, 2007 - 9:41am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The reason was that they weren't reducing the fines enough:

In the latest case, the catalyst was a purported government document said that fines for having a second child would be reduced to a few dollars from the current minimum of $1,300.

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