The People's Republic of Capitalism

In the beginning we took about five minutes to talk about an assembly tomorrow from someone’s name that is Gerry Sandusky, but spelled with a "G", not a "J" like the stupid pedophile. (Luckily, I've heard that all the pedophiles in prison are looked as like dirt by all the other prisoners, so they are just tortured until they die!)  Anyway, he will be telling us about how the other Jerry, has changed his life.  If we ask a good question to him, we get 10 extra credit points.  After that we talked a little about how Egypt's old dictator was thrown out of office and replaced with Ben Netanyahu and now he is sadly starting to become more of a dictator than the people would like him to be.  After this we watched a movie about China, the title of this was called the People's Republic of Capitalism.  It was basically about China, and their life in comparison to America's.  It talked about the earthquake and how it struck schools, and good, prosperous land.  The schools and buildings collapsed because they were made out of wood and not concrete like most all buildings in America are.  Also, 55,000 people died in the earthquake lots of them were children because they were in school.  There is only the one-child rule in China so all of the parents lost their only child.  If you are caught in the city with more than one child it is a huge fine.  But the government allows parents to try again if the can prove their child has died.  There is a city call Chongqing, and it is along the Yangzi River, this is known to Americans as the “Biggest city Americans have never heard of”, there are a lot of rich people here.  There is a larger amount of poor people in China then there are in all of America.  There are 1 ½ million people working on construction, and the men only get paid 3-4 dollars a day, not an hour a day.  The women only get paid 1 or 2 dollars an hour.  This is because there are so many Chinese people and a ginormous amount is poor, so they are willing to work for just about anything since it is better than none at all.  We also saw how American companies are being “taken over” by the Chinese because of how cheap it is costing for them.  For example, Briggs and Stratton 480 people were laid off last year because it is less costly to ship it around the world and have the Chinese work, than just the Americans.