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To: steve harris who wrote (593358)11/13/2010 8:00:45 PM
From: Tenchusatsu1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577529
 
Steve, on the flip side of Chinese construction, here's an example of "too big to fail" at work ...

Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall

pbs.org

Four years after its construction, the mall is still 99% empty. The documentary shots of the empty mall, deemed the "biggest in the world," are absolutely surreal, like an ultra modern ghost town.

This may be a warning of things to come in China. And perhaps a warning to the policy-makers here in America who think government should be responsible for "creating jobs" by building grand bridges to nowhere ...

Tenchusatsu