Japan's Election: Landslide for Koizumi | 9 comments (9 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Unfortunately this trend of "free (slavery)market" , privatization of everything on/under/above Earth and tax cuts for rich is going great in these USA allies states...It will not going to change any time soon. We'll see how it's going to end but I just hope that Europe is not going to go that way under the pressure...
I wonder if one day we'll have to pay toll for breathing the air when we step out of our property (if we have one) on private streets and footpaths...Do you think it's a fiction?...I don't think so.
Who cares..."We'll all be rich"...

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein

by vbo on Mon Sep 12th, 2005 at 12:34:29 AM EST

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The West seems so blindly confident in privatising everything, even if objectively this is a huge historical experiment. Is this "government for the people, by the people"?

Living in Japan, I haven't noticed or understood much of this election. Apparently, there was big enthusiasm for reform and little visible crituque against. In Osaka, Koizumi was greated like rock star. It's all so PR.

This election is not good for countryside. Post-office is the last government agency which covers all corners. Tokyo profits from Koizumi's policies enormously. Even people or companies from Osaka (third largest city, after Tokyo and Yokohama) start to move there.

I wonder how Koizumi's "small government" will affect emergency agencies.

by das monde on Mon Sep 12th, 2005 at 01:27:32 AM EST
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The West seems so blindly confident in privatising everything, even if objectively this is a huge historical experiment.
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You are so right. I have lived one experiment, so called "communism" Eastern Europe style that failed catastrophically and am not keen on living this one, but it looks like it's in my cards being a citizen of Australia right now.
Even more then a first one this one looks like a "house of cards" to me...

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein

by vbo on Mon Sep 12th, 2005 at 11:15:03 AM EST
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Japan's Election: Landslide for Koizumi | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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