Dragondick's Collection - Economics & Politics

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Below is an amalgamated collection of Bro Dragondick's valuable contributions!

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奇文共賞: 貪官-長治久安之計


與君一席話  勝讀十年書!


這篇真是讓我腦袋開竅....歪理中的真理耶..!! ------政客一定懂這真理.





  宇文泰者北周開國奠基人也。


當他作北魏的丞相模仿曹操“挾天子令諸侯”之時，遇到了與諸葛亮齊名的名士蘇綽。宇文泰向蘇綽討教治國之道，二人密談了三日三夜，留下了如下極具現實意義和可操作性的不朽答問。


為便於廣大讀者閱覽，謹將歷史典籍中原來的文言文翻譯成如下白話文





宇文泰問：國何以立？


蘇綽答：具官。
宇文泰問：如何具官？


蘇綽答：用貪官，反貪官。



宇文泰不解，問：為什麼要用貪官？
蘇綽答：你要想叫別人為你賣命，就必須給人家好處。而你又沒有那麼多錢給他，那就給權，叫他用手中的權去搜刮民脂民膏，他不就得到好處了嗎？


宇文泰問：貪官受惠，又會給我帶來什麼好處？
蘇綽答：他能受惠是因為你給的權，所以，他為了保住自己的好處就必須維護你的權。這樣，你的統治不就牢固了嗎？如果沒有貪官維護你的政權，那麼你還怎麼鞏固統治？


宇文泰恍然大悟，問：既然用了貪官，為什麼還要反呢？
蘇綽答：這就是奧妙所在了。只有反貪官才能欺騙民眾，才能鞏固政權。

宇文泰大惑，說：愛卿快說其中的奧秘。
蘇綽答：這有兩個好處：
其一，天下哪有不貪的官？
對於官，不必怕他貪，怕的是他不聽你的話。以反貪官為名，消除不聽你話的官，保留聽你話的官。這樣既可以消除異己，鞏固你的權力，又可以得到人民對你的擁戴。


其二 官吏只要貪贓枉法了，把柄就在你手中。他敢背叛你，你就以此為由滅了他。貪官怕你滅了他，就只有乖乖聽你的話。所以，反貪官 ’是你駕禦官的法寶。如果你不用貪官，你就失去了這個法寶。如果人人皆是清官，深得人民擁戴，他不聽話，你沒有藉口除掉他；硬去除掉，也會引來黎民騷動。對於貪官，你一是要用，二是要反，使官僚隊伍成為清一色擁護你的人。


蘇綽突然回問：如果因為用了貪官而招致民怨沸騰怎麼辦？
宇文泰一驚，便問：愛卿有何妙計可除此患？
蘇綽答：祭起反貪大旗，加大宣傳力度，證明你心系黎民。讓民眾認為你是好的，而不好的只是那些貪官，把責任都推到他們的身上，千萬不要讓民眾認為你是貪官的後臺。你必須讓民眾認為，你是好的。社會出現這麼多問題，不是你不想搞好，而是下面的官吏們不好好執行你的政策。


宇文泰問：民怨太大的官吏，拿他們怎麼辦？
蘇綽答：宰了，為民除害!把他們搜刮的民財放進你的腰包。這樣你可以不負搜刮民財之罪責，而得搜刮民財之實惠





蘇綽最後總結說：
　　用貪官來鞏固政權，
　　縱貪官來培植死黨，
　　除貪官以消除異己，
　　殺貪官來收買人心，
　　沒收貪官錢財充實國庫!
       這將是長治久安之計。

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好人真的難做?
Last OCT, a 2-year-old Chinese girl was knocked down by a car but nobody offered to help which puzzled a lot of Chinese.  We started to ask ourselves “Where is our conscience?  What happened to the Confucious teaching which we were brought up in?”
The following documentary videos explain why:

十月中，廣東佛山發生了一宗轟動全國的慘劇。兩歲女孩小悅悅連遭兩車撞跌及輾過，意外發生後，十八個路人行經小悅悅身邊，卻竟無一人伸出援手。直至最後一位拾荒婆婆路過，  才把小悅悅救起。視而不見的路人，反映了怎樣的中國現況？

早在小悅悅事件發生前，內地近幾年經常討論一個常識問題：「在街上見到老人捽倒，扶還是不扶？」。因為內地陸續發生攙扶老人後被誣陷的情況，有好心扶起老人的路人更被要求  賠償高達十萬元。因此，扶起一個捽倒的老人彷彿風險極高。華南師範大學教授談方為此成立了攙扶老人風險基金，專幫忙一些攙扶老人後惹上官司的路人，為他們提供法律援助。 相 信沒有人願意當冷漠的路人，但為什麼在中國要當一個好人要思前想後？好人真的難做？
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aaxFYqQ8p0&feature=g-vrec
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uh_zyvPkbQ&feature=relmfu

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World's Largest Economies:

http://money.cnn.com/news/econom ... gdp/?source=cnn_bin

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The next major players are from China.

CORRUPTION IN CHINA:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video ... uption-in-china.cnn


FORMER CHINESE OFFICIAL’S SON RECEIVED TICKET IN PORSCHE:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/27/wo ... html?iref=allsearch

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20 MOST PROFITABLE COMPANIES

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2 ... une/?source=cnn_bin


20 BIGGEST STOCK GAINERS

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2 ... .html?iid=galleryrr

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ALIBABA BUYS BACK YAHOO SHARES

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/bu ... ndex.html?hpt=hp_t3




CHINESE FIRM BUYS AMC THEATRES

With Chinese economy getting stronger & stronger, you will be reading more about Chinese purchases overseas:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/21/bu ... ndex.html?hpt=hp_t3

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毋忘今日 - 寫於七七蘆溝橋事變七十五週年前夕
Tomorrow, JUL 07 2012, is the 75th anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident which marked the beginning of the last Sino-JapaneseWar.
It was a war which the Chinese did not want, but was forced to take up arms to defend against Japanese aggression.
It was a war which revealed the true nature of  Japanese ambitions and the cruelty & atrocity used to achieving it goals; it was a war which saw 40+ million Chinese perished, millions of families dislocated; it was a war which truly tested the courage of the Chinese people.
It was also a war which disrupted China’s road to modernization by at least 50 years.
Younger generations of both countries may not know what happened 75 years ago, while older generations’ memory start to fade, I wish to bring this up so that we will never forget.
In the past 2 months, I have research, dug up, & posted a series of videos under the name of  “國殤” and  “一寸河山一寸血”  both of these videos are worth spending time to review.

FORGIVE BUT NEVER FORGET!

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President Chiang Kai-Shek's Diary

Those who are interested in modern Chinese history would be interested in reading this.

Like people of the previous generation, President Chiang kept a diary.  Throughout the years, he reported/recorded all of his daily activities, sometimes in great detail.  Due to his position in China's modern history, this diary is significant, particularly in verifying events in Chinese history.

President Chiang passed away in 1975 (?), the diary was kept by his decedents, & in recent years there was even a lawsuit among the decedents to decide who should own the diary.  The last I heard was that this set of diaries was donated to a renown library (I did not follow on this, so can be wrong), but only for limited viewing.

As a result, privileged historians gained access to the diaries.

The following write up & video (40+/-' in length) are very interesting & are worth spending time on:

http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... jieshi/1365140.html