Hard questions for ministers

"ONE OFMYFAMILY MEMBERS FAILED TO GET A CAR plate number for three years too," said Yang Chuantang, minister of transport, when answering a question about the license plate lottery policy of Beijing. In the discussions and interviews at the ongoing National People's Congress, several ministers were asked questions concerning the difficulties people experience in their daily lives, and they have answered they have similar problems. Comments:

By emphasizing that they have similar difficulties as ordinary people do, the ministers appear not so cold as before. However, their answers imply a cunning logic that ordinary people should not protest about the difficulties they meet in life, which is against modern political principles. They are responsible for solving these problems and difficulties people meet, and their difficulties should not be used as excuses to delay, or even avoid, performing their duties.

yzdsb.com.cn, March 7