Servants of the Public

The Daily Telegraph recently reported that China now has 46 million government employees. Somewhat reminiscent of Ottawa, the federal capital of Canada and a government town! However that is still 15 million more people feeding at the public's expense than the entire poulation of Canada. They say an excessive and corrupt bureaucracy brought an end to the Qing dynasty in 1911. Yet as a proportion of the population there are now 35 times more pulic servants. If imperial rule collapsed then for these reasons do you think China will collapse in on itself now while I am there?