China's latest challenge: swelling ranks of beggars

[Francesca9]

Source: Times of India

...The now second largest economy, however, sees beggars as an image issue. Beijing police rounded up 300 beggars in a crackdown this month...

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/Chinas-latest-challenge-swelling-ranks-of-beggars/articleshow/6573314.cms

[Hardrada]

1. Didn't Giuliani do something like that in NYC?

[billlll]

3. police refused orders to clear Madison square Garden of hmlss

IIRC. Paper called it a mutiny. Village Voice IIRC.

Heard brief radio NPR mention of Ch. economy changing soon to LW. Details?

[Frank Booth]

2. The capitalist road is glorious!

Down with social safety nets!

[4dsc]

4. 70% of the population lacks health care coverage too.

[alittlelark]

5. Gee, they sound much more similar to 'US' than I thought.

kinda sad.

[HEyHEY]

7. This place is facist, not communist.

There is NO social safety net here. No Welfare, no healthcare, no free education.... just a bunch of corrupt officials using a country of people as cheap labour while they get rich.

[gtar100]

8. Yes, they give communism a bad name.

Just a bunch of thugs who set the rules to benefit themselves and use the people for their personal gain. Communism my ass! Only when it suits them. Tragic, tragic, tragic.

[HEyHEY]

9. They are everything communism is supposed to be against

And their young people actually buy into their bullshit

[HEyHEY]

6. Well, begging here is different than home

Around Beijing, many beggars have been forced into it by gangs, especially the Children. It is disgusting. You see kids that are mutilated by some scumbag begging for money... yet the police allow them to keep begging instead of grabbing them and taking them somewhere safe.

You rarely see a fully grown healthy person begging here, it's always old people, disabled people or children. And they aren't drug addicts or anything either.

Truly you never see as many beggars as back home here.