China golf: Communist Party bans club membership

BBC News ^ | October 22, 2015 | Sum Gai

[sparklite2]

The Chinese Communist Party has banned all 88 million of its members from joining golf clubs, in its latest update of party discipline rules.

The new rule on golf states that members are banned from "obtaining, holding or using membership cards for gyms, clubs, golf clubs, or various other types of consumer cards, or entering private clubs".

[sparklite2]

Someone must have been teed off.

[MeshugeMikey]

only the ELITE get to EAT...like this

[brownsfan]

Americans want this. They think it’s equality. Just wait until they get a real dose of equality, and they won’t be able to refuse.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Senator, I am not a Communist. And here is my Planet Fitness card to prove it.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Makes sense. How can they claim to be good communists, if they enjoy the special benefits of belonging to a private club of some kind???

[BatGuano]

My guess is that they are not proud of the few Chinese men and women who are on the PGA and LPGA tours.

88 million seems like a whole lot of party members but, when there are 1,312,000,000 Non party members, is appears as if they are in a very exclusive group.

Can those who are members of those dastardly golf clubs ask for a “Mulligan?”

[FreeAtlanta]

Remember when Hugo Chavez destroyed all those Venezuelan golf courses?

[NRx]

Does this mean Obama will have to give up golf?

[Zhang Fei]

This might be the final straw that gets Xi Jinping’s party rivals to send him off to pursue other interests in a re-education camp.

[sparklite2]

That would be Duffy’s Tavern,
where the elite meet to eat.

Yes, I remember the radio show,
and yes, I’m that old. :)

[MeshugeMikey]

Im almost certain that the chi com elite will continue golfing and eating what they want to...whenever they choose to.

Im older than I look...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Archie the bartender speakin’
Duffy ain’t here.

Way before my time, but I’m a radio history buff.

Interesting trivia: One of the sons of the creator of Duffy’s Tavern was a co-creator of Cheers.

More interesting trivia: The last few seasons of Duffy’s Tavern were transcribed in Puerto Rico (to take advantage of generous Federal tax benefits then in place to do business there)

[nickcarraway]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day...

[sparklite2]

Did not know that. Thanks.

[familyop]

Sex, gluttony and golf: Chinese Communist Party's deadly sins

[familyop]

88 million PLA VIPs, eh? We only have about 40 million commies,...

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

...and that's including the majority of ours, and according to themselves, the "conservative" ones.

OpenSecrets.org
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees [State/County/Municipal Employees]
[Total Contributions:] [$93,830,657 [To Repubs & Conservs:] $92,879,550 [to Dems & liberals $658,305 [Pct to Dems & liberals:] 99% [Pct to Repubs & Conservs:] 1%

[Trillian]

Oh, sure. Let's see... I'm an elk, a Mason, a communist. I'm the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance for some reason...ah, here it is. The Stonecutters.