Give the Republicans complete control of every branch of government and we citizens will experience the same!
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Republican health care.
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The English internet site of Lanzhou states: Over the past 57 years Lanzhou Jiatong University has made great achievements in teaching, scientific research, management and personnel training.
http://www.lzjtu.edu.cn/english/english.htm
It would seem that they have a way to go in their relationship to their faculty. I would hope, although I am not optimistic, that the Chinese higher education system provides some type of health benefits for their faculty, and if not they should.
Ms. Liu was an English teacher, providing the 30,000 or so students at this university with the springboard to success in the world. She deserved better from her university and employer.
http://www.lzjtu.edu.cn/english/english.htm
It would seem that they have a way to go in their relationship to their faculty. I would hope, although I am not optimistic, that the Chinese higher education system provides some type of health benefits for their faculty, and if not they should.
Ms. Liu was an English teacher, providing the 30,000 or so students at this university with the springboard to success in the world. She deserved better from her university and employer.
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Bittersweet. On one hand, the legal system worked and is improving; a dying woman sued her employer, a powerful University, and won. But on the other hand, she died, the apologies came too late and an old school mentality that lagged the law prevailed. I am certain that thousands of similarly heartbreaking stories exist, with most never getting resolution nor gaining widespread attention.
I remind myself that most people in China didn't have a refrigerator until the mid 80s and that the current legal system started not much earlier. Tremendous progress has been made. But is it fast enough and thorough enough? Life in China is a strange juxtaposition of extreme wealth and luxury and those grasping for justice on society's edge.
I remind myself that most people in China didn't have a refrigerator until the mid 80s and that the current legal system started not much earlier. Tremendous progress has been made. But is it fast enough and thorough enough? Life in China is a strange juxtaposition of extreme wealth and luxury and those grasping for justice on society's edge.
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I read articles daily in the NYT about children in Syria and other countries being killed by bombs . But this story struck an emotional chord for me more profound than what I have felt for those poor children .
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Why? What about the death of a teacher from cancer is more profound than the murder of children by their own government? The behavior of her employer is immoral and scandalous and its hard to compare tragedy, but it seems like we ought to be bothered more by the murder of innocents by their own government than by the death of someone to cancer who was badly mistreated by their employer.
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No need to beat up Don. It is actually understandable. Those of us fortunate enough to avoid civil war might identify more with a cancer patient being bankrupted by medical expenses and losing one's job, rather than being maimed by exploding bombs and bullets. The atrocities of a war zone is too scary and too remote for deep emotional response, unless one has been a first-respond-er or a war veteran.
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Firing of Teacher Battling Cancer:
This is typical of why i don't support communism & never have. China is now a very rich country and spends zillions on the Military & Science, it's about time they looked after their people more. It's as if they don't care because they have all the people they need. Russia is not far behind either under Putin.
This is typical of why i don't support communism & never have. China is now a very rich country and spends zillions on the Military & Science, it's about time they looked after their people more. It's as if they don't care because they have all the people they need. Russia is not far behind either under Putin.
Well, I'm no fan of communism but the PRC isn't really a communist state today and Russia is not either. And let's not throw stones in our own glass house -- their are millions of Americans without healthcare and Americans die every day from inadequate health treatment and are abandoned by their government. There are also many stories (though perhaps they are the exception) of sick Americans denied care by insurers in the service of the insurance industry's bottom line.
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As a lawyer, I can tell you unfair and inhumane things like this happen in the west all the time.
I can give you a personal example. My grandmother, suffering serious dementia, died a lonely death in an NHS hospital in your country because of a refusal by my country's government (Australia) to allow her a visa to be reunited with her family in Australia - and before you ask, at the time my family didnt have the funds to send my mother back to the UK to look after her on a full time basis). As a law student at the time I fought an endless round of successful appeals against that decision until it came down to the minister's (unreviewable) decision - and he said "no". My mother had to fly to the UK and essentially abandon her mother - with whom she was very close, but who by then often didnt know who my mother was - to the NHS.
Since then I have seen many worse situations.
The problem isnt communism - the problem is the human spirit, or lack thereof.
I can give you a personal example. My grandmother, suffering serious dementia, died a lonely death in an NHS hospital in your country because of a refusal by my country's government (Australia) to allow her a visa to be reunited with her family in Australia - and before you ask, at the time my family didnt have the funds to send my mother back to the UK to look after her on a full time basis). As a law student at the time I fought an endless round of successful appeals against that decision until it came down to the minister's (unreviewable) decision - and he said "no". My mother had to fly to the UK and essentially abandon her mother - with whom she was very close, but who by then often didnt know who my mother was - to the NHS.
Since then I have seen many worse situations.
The problem isnt communism - the problem is the human spirit, or lack thereof.
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Cancer is a horrible disease, there's a worldwide epidemic of it, and its getting worse -- much worse.
Google worldwide cancer epidemic.
Its long past time for mankind to declare an all out world war against Cancer -- that's the level of effort its going to take to defeat it.
We need to start by putting real money behind the war on Cancer here in the US.
Google worldwide cancer epidemic.
Its long past time for mankind to declare an all out world war against Cancer -- that's the level of effort its going to take to defeat it.
We need to start by putting real money behind the war on Cancer here in the US.
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Pity the parents... they just lost their beloved child (this report did not indicate whether or not Ms. Liu was an only child), a person whose suffering was compounded by the callousness of her employers.