China: Olympics side-effect on industry · Global Voices
Bob Chen

What will be the cost of presenting an unprecedented Olympics?
Blogger Dailu, an author listed in Bulloger.cn, recorded one of his dialogues with a few workers in a chemical factory, which suffered from an unexpected side-effect of the Olympics.
中午吃饭，有搞化工的人，听到他们谈论，奥运期间，北方很多化工、医药工厂都要停产。
我说：“那是好消息呀，你们南方不受影响，赶紧加大生产，抢占市场。”
人家说：“好个屁呀，我们原料是山东的，没有原料，生个屁产！”
Having lunch today, I heard several workers talking that, during the Olympics, a great many chemical and pharmacy works in the north were shut down.
“What a great piece of news,” I said, “it’s the right time for you works in the south being unaffected to promote production to take over the market!”
“What a hell good news is it?” answered them, “we all have our raw materials from Shandong, and what a shit could we make without them!”
The blogger plotted again, “Then just stock up the material! It’s right the time since it has still one months left before the Games!”
“那赶紧囤积原料啊，还有一个月，备战备荒还来得及。”
“咳，就你聪明？政府已经规定，7月1日到10月18日，全国范围内危险品都不准运输，高速也不能上，长江也不能进，我们原料是剧毒物品，已经运不出来了，你就等着停产吧。”
“You are not the only guy wise! The government has regulated that from 7.1 to 10.18, no cargo of dangerous goods should be shipped or get on to the highway, or even go along the Yangtze River. What we need are all poisonous materials, already forbidden. Just wait for the black-out!”
After checking online, the blogger found:
笑完了，回去上网一查，果然查出禁令无数，大禁如梳，中禁如箆，小禁如剃，凡是不朝气不蓬勃不和谐不向上的行业，几乎全都着了道
The prohibitions during Olympics, countless in number, were really like combing and raking over across the entire industry, all those not positive, and not “harmonious” enough on the hit list.
He further commented:
记得当初申奥时，专家们出来算经济账，纷纷都是一个“赚”字。如今各项预算大大超支，于是经济账就再也没人提了，换季流行的是政治帐。一方面对外高喊：奥运不能政治化，一方面又对内宣传：我们只算政治帐！奥运是一只爱国奶牛，吃进去的是钱，挤出来的是大国形象。
I was reminded that “bonanza” was what the experts yelled out when just starting to compete for the Olympic hosting. However, the calculation of economy has already been replaced today by that of politics, because of the overspending on budget. No one mention how much we can earn now (but only what a great name we can get — translator). We proclaimed to the world of no getting the Game politicized, while in the other hand we are speaking to ourselves that we only consider the political impact!
The Olympics is like a patriotic cow, with money flowed in, the profile of a great nation squeezed out.
其 实，以我之见，算算政治帐也无可厚非，心理满足本来就是人的最高需求嘛。问题主要是，现在似乎是完全靠政治开路。要知道经济成本不会凭空消失，在政治帐的 口号下，必然会以政治压力的方式呈现出来，中国人经济上失去的越多，政治上期望就越高.
In fact, I don’t think there’s much worng with political consideration; isn’t the psychological satisfaction the highest pursuit of human? But the problem now is that, politics seemed to be used to solve every problem, while we know that the economic cost won’t just die out. Pressured under political slogans, it will finally burst out in the form of political pressure. The more we Chinese lost economically, the more we anticipate on politics.
His conclusion has a grey color:
8月之后，要么是高高摔下，要么是高高高潮。
After August, we'll either fall badly from the high, or reach the real climax!