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This year Vietnam will not shoot fireworks to celebrate Tet, to save that money for relief, although we do not know yet which projects to spend the trillions of tax money on, who to give it to, who is responsible,... but anyway, let's still applaud that noble spirit first. Otherwise, there are many people who are trying to combine Tet with Tet to save money, to drink less, to eat less, which is even more annoying. Our ancestors sadly watched their descendants not think of any new way to increase labor productivity, so that their children were born without debt to pay, so they had to follow others, saying that Japan is like this, that America is like that, forgetting that character and attitude are the keys.
But let's get off topic, we still have the flower street this year. The 'trillion' flower street is for fun during Tet, who knows, later on people will also 'save' for relief, so let's enjoy today, think about tomorrow. After a few days of fun, it's time to clean up, and we have to spend money to hire security guards and sweepers to collect and clean up. So people start to 'pick up' flowers again, as the press says.
A flower street guard said: "These flowers will all be thrown in the garbage truck, but they are high-tech flowers, they won't last long, so don't take them. The flower pots aren't worth much, but people will look at them and judge the consciousness of the people of the whole city!"
Some young people even sneaked into the flower street to take the flowers and then quickly ran away. Many people were also on standby, waiting for workers to put the flower pots on the garbage truck so they could quickly take the flowers. Many people took the opportunity to ask for flower pots to take home. When the flower street security force stopped them, many people explained: "We are intellectuals, we love flowers so we want to take a few pots home, otherwise it would be a waste to throw them away later."
Well, it's true, there were a few vases of flowers that were fighting and cursing.
But, it's a waste, thousands of billions to play for a few days, and they are the ones who spent money to build the flower street. Tax money paid all year, never received unemployment benefits, never touched the insurance card, now they bring home a few pots and are treated like robbers and cry out, why? The flowers are all withered, why don't you sell them cheap so people can come and get them. The poor don't have extra money to buy flowers, why don't you leave them for them, so they can come and get them. Make two areas, one area to sell them cheap, one area to take them for free for those who need them but don't have money to buy them. The money from selling the flowers is used for charity, why not?
Instead of belittling taxpayers when they rush out to pick up flowers, fearing waste, why not think of ways to make use of the flowers. For example, if no one wants to buy cheap flowers, and no one wants to take them, then it is not too late to destroy them.
