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To: ApplegateRanch

Additional.

“Last Monday night, students who went to the cafeteria after classes found prices had jumped by almost 50 per cent on a range of items.”

http://www.speroforum.com/a/43970/China-—In-Guizhou-students-go-on-a-rampage-after-cafeteria-raises-prices?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+speroforum%2Fnroq+(Spero+News)


13 posted on 11/26/2010 2:18:34 PM PST by bigheadfred (mind like a steel trap---rusted shut...)
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To: bigheadfred
Thanks for the additional source! To bad The Guardian couldn't be bothered.

Yuan Guozhong blamed price hikes on soaring food prices. “Some students” are “from low-income families,” he explained, and are very price-sensitive.

So much for that ...and to each according to his need" stuff they were always bragging about. :-)

17 posted on 11/26/2010 5:09:28 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: A Satanically Transmitted Disease spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus)
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