ChiComs praise Yao as ideal soulless cog : Lone Star Times

ChiComs praise Yao as ideal soulless cog

by Matt Bramanti · 04/29/2005 6:29 pm

The godless repressive Beijing government has declared Rockets star Yao Ming a "model worker," just in time for May Day:

"Before, I thought model workers only recognized ordinary people who worked tirelessly and without asking for anything in return," the 24-year-old Yao said through his agent. "Now the award also includes someone like me, a special kind of migrant worker. That’s a sign of progress."

Yao went on to say, "There, I said it. Now please don’t execute my family."

Now let’s hear from average folks in that enlightened workers’ paradise:

"What’s the point of understanding it? They will never pick one of us," said Wei Yanzhou, 42, a welder from Hubei province who is helping to build what is expected to be the tallest building in Beijing.

Wei works about 12 hours a day, seven days a week for about $100 a month. If he takes a sick day, the boss deducts the day’s wage from his pay.

Wei considers himself lucky. Many migrant workers receive no wages at all from employers who claim to be bankrupt or disappear with laborers’ hard-earned money.

At the end of the day, workers like Wei are shuttled back to factory dorms where they sleep more than a dozen to a small room. There is no hot running water, no heat or ventilation and little food.

"We eat cabbage three times a day. Sometimes the rice has sand in it," said bricklayer Zhu Zhou, who looks a decade older than his 40 years. "We see meat maybe twice a week. We don’t even get enough drinking water, never mind a shower."

Happy May Day.

[Hat-tip: Kevin Whited]

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4 Responses to “ChiComs praise Yao as ideal soulless cog”

craig crawford on April 30th, 2005 at 9:34 am

You have to ask yourself why the powers that be, give China , most favored nation trade status. Not to mention the fact that they use slave labor over there, and from the sound of this article, even if you have a job, you are worked like a slave. Ships loaded with Chinese goods are unloaded in our ports everyday. They are cheaply made and for the most part, poorly made, yet we buy them because they are inexpensive. Walmart is chock full of cheaply made Chinese junk and they pay sorry wages to illegal aliens, and some out of place white people that might happen to work there, yet we think they are great and as American as apple pie. This country is dying and China is growing. What’s wrong with this picture? Does anyone see it? There is something I have always wanted to know though and that is if Yao Ming is a member of the Communist Party. Chances are he is. I wonder if such information would be the least bit important to us as Americans since we are so infatuated with professional sports, and our own lives. Our country is dying, the middle class is dying right before our very eyes, yet we make time for basketball. As Don King would say, only in America. Well stay tuned ladies and gentlemen, act 2 is about to begin. If you loved 911, you will like this one even more.
Jeff on April 30th, 2005 at 10:53 am

I mean come on … stories about migrant workers toiling away on tall buildings in wretched conditions? Where’s their equivalent of Ellis Island?
Ron on April 30th, 2005 at 11:26 am

Yeah so what if Yao is a commie? How does that impact your day-to-day life? All I know is that the Rockets are up 2 to 1 over the Mavs.

All far as Wal-Mart is concerned well all I can say is “Welcome to capitalism.” Wal-Mart has access to cheaper products and therefore sell us cheaper products. Why should I go out and pay $30 for a hammer, toilet paper and some aspirin when I can get all that for less than $10 at Wal-Mart? The “mom and pop” stores have been overcharging us for years an now things are now beginning to even out.
gregg on April 30th, 2005 at 1:20 pm

I really get a kick out of people who put down Communist China for taking most of Yao Mings money. The average US NBA player pays the US government 60% of his money. What a laugh. The Chicoms are building a nuclear arsenal and military with our money. Our CEO’s are knocking each other over to kiss the rears of the Chicoms. What a country!

The heck with learning spanish we should be learning to speak Chinese, that is what our grandkids will be speaking. Thank Wal-Mart and the $1 dollar hammer. I would rather pay the mom and pop shop $3 for the hammer and have the money stay here. But since Wal-Mart put mom and pop out of business we have no choice but to send our money to China.

Rush always said Communism fails wherever its tried. Well, he didnt count on a willing US to make it work.