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Election puts spotlight on reviving economy

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By Elaine Kurtenbach

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it's hard for him to get married or have a family

Up here in Tohoku, I know lots of people got married and now are having babies since 3/11. This country just needs a 'Hey, that was a big earthquake. Lets get married and have kids' moment.

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America has its economy locked in the grip of the parasite class of govenment workers and welfare recipients. With a president who has been in one parasite group or another since birth. So we are not gettting out of our malaise anytime soon, I cannot belive that the Japanese economy cannot breakout without the shackles of listlessness that will hold America back for decades.

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From what all the polls and most people I talk to indicate ... the Liberal Democratic Party will be roaring back into power following Sunday's election.

I was talking with a well-to-do friend the other night, and he said he has already voted. I didn't ask him who he voted for, but he volunteered the choice. "I voted for the LDP all across the board," he said. I said, "but that means Abe will come back ... and he was a loser once before." My friend replied, "But this time everything will be different." I then said, "Well, the LDP lost your money, my money and everyone's money when they were last in power. They stuffed it in their pockets and just threw it away." Replied my friend with a big smile, "Well, things will be different this time." " It seems my friend is just repeating what Abe has offered as the main part of his election platform: "Well, we (the LDP) will do things differently this time."

And what are we already seeing? Abe wants to make former Prime Minister Aso (who has trouble reading and writing) a minister. He wants to make power-hungry Ishiba the foreign minister. And Abe wants to recycle other former members of the corrupt LDP in some form or other. In other words, Abe is bring back the old LDP gang that led Japan down the road to destruction over the last 10 years of their reign.

As it seems these rascals will once again be ruling Japan ... I certainly do hope they "do things differently," as promised by Abe. But those "different" things better be for the better ... and not the worse. If the LDP continues its corrupt ways, then Japan will sink even deeper into the trough of depression.

So it is indeed the big question of the moment ... and future ...

Paraphrasing the opening paragraph: It's the $6 trillion question: Can the LDP jolt Japan out of its 20-year economic slump? We have no choice on that answer, do we? Let's just say we hope so ... we hope things will be different this time around. For the better, of course ...

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America has its economy locked in the grip of the parasite class of government workers and welfare recipients.

Add to that parasite defense contractors (for excessive military spending), parasite bankers and parasite corporations that get money from the government in various ways and you have a better balance.

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