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wolf 07-22-2003 12:28 AM

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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce

Hmmmm.....Community service?;)

Why do I find myself thinking that this is the kinder, gentler modern communist party's euphemism for "forced labor."

Compulsory cooperation for the joy of the people, maybe?

Griff 07-22-2003 06:26 AM

he he I was thinking Amerikorp myself.

Hubris Boy 07-22-2003 11:09 AM

<blockquote>
<p>Workers, Peasants and Party Cadres, as the Vanguard of the Revolutionary Proletariat, Must Move Decisively to Criticize Rightist Deviationism.*
<p align="right">*Title of the latest bestseller from the People's Daily Review of Books </blockquote>

I think Wolf was pretty close to the mark. After all, the enforced relocation of urban populations to rural areas was such an overwhelming success the last time the ChiComs tried it, how could they be blamed for wanting to try it again?

elSicomoro 07-22-2003 07:39 PM

Like Sam Kinison said about Africans not so long ago...move to where the food is.

xoxoxoBruce 07-22-2003 09:20 PM

God, I hate being old. What the hell was that in country (ours) Peace Corps called?:confused:

99 44/100% pure 07-23-2003 07:00 AM

McDonald's


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