The Chinese government yesterday launched their first ever space mission.
The Shenzhou V space vehicle was successfully launched at an estimated cost of $1 billion. ($1,000,000,000)
"China has today joined the exclusive club of countries able to spend a billion dollars to catapult a heap of useless and un-reusable junk into space." Chinese premier Wen Jiabao told BIGfib.
In Xian Diong BIGfib asked local peasant farmers living in mud huts without running water, sanitation, electricity and insufficient income to buy the basic necessities of life such as soap and salt whether they thought that their communist government was making good use of China's resources.
Win Lang, whose wife and child died earlier this year of Typhoid told BIGfib. "I love my Motherland and whatever the beloved leaders decide is surely in the interests of the ordinary working man."
Ling Moan who works 18 hours a day in a Nike factory in Chen Yang for the equivalent of 4 dollars a week agreed wholeheartedly.
"Everyone in China is very excited about this, our glorious leaders have acted with godly perfection to produce a miracle which is surely going to change our whole way of living." <<< back
