Posted on 07/19/2015 1:59:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
YANJIAO, China Every morning at 5:30, Liu Desheng joins a dozen retirees waiting for the express bus to Beijing from this small city in Hebei Province. They stand at the front of the line but never board, instead waiting as bus after bus pulls up, each picking up 50 people from the ever-lengthening line behind the retirees.
Around 6:30, their adult children arrive. The line, now snaking down the street, has become an hourlong wait. People cut in, and a shoving match breaks out. But the retirees have saved their children this ordeal. When the next bus pulls up, the young adults take their parents places at the head of the line and board first, settling into coveted seats for a 25-mile ride that can take up to three hours.
Theres not much I can contribute to the family anymore, Mr. Liu, 62, said as his son waved goodbye from a bus window. He is exhausted every day, so if I can help him get a bit more rest, Ill do it.
The Liu familys commuting habit is a small but telling part of a megacity in the making....
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These people need to learn about advance ticket sales.
Good God, it would be he’ll on earth.
China is a House-of-Cards.
A vast, powerful, belligerent, nuclear-armed House-of-Cards.
This will not end well.
Pretty darn scary
If I were Chinese, I would walk up and down the line offering a rental gun so people could shoot themselves. Money up front!
This is the life city planners envision for us.
That picture of Yanjiao looked right out of some Orwelian science fiction movie. Rows of identical 30 story residence buildings as far as the eye can see of a sterile main boulevard.
I have to wonder China’s real suicide rate. Maybe that is their plan for population control. Encourage suicide by lifestyle.
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