It's about Time

In some ways they are not comparable with Ben Bernanke, the United States economic overlord and Time magazine's Person of the Year 2009.

In some others, they are beyond comparison.

Thank you Time magazine, for honoring The Chinese Worker as one of the only four runners-up. The accolade is something they deserve but perhaps do not get at home. That they have made it to the list, leaving Bernanke's Chinese counterpart far behind, may be more or less a surprise to some. But to us, if it is, it is a pleasant one. The true hero behind all of our nation's recent economic miracles finally emerges from obscurity.