Cabinet minister draws fire for saying gov't won't listen to opposition

Daishiro Yamagiwa, minister in charge of economic revitalization:

We will not listen to any of these scurrilous suggestions by the opposition that subsidies to oil companies, subsiding electric power suppliers with the consumers' tax money to provide electric conservation "points ", and even more subsidies to hotel owners and recruiting companies are not the golden road to a New Capitalism™!!! My plan for economic revitalization is the law!!

Let no opposition question that giving the taxes of economically stressed taxpayers to companies is not the road to economic freedom

He didn't apologize, and his comments were "misleading" in the sense they are exactly what the LDP intends.

This ministerial position for revitalisation, has anyone got one example of it being involved in a positive outcome for more than 10 people?

An honest politician. How refreshing.

"Listening only to the voices of the ruling parties is dictatorship by intimidation," Osaka said.

That's a good assessment of Japanese politics.

Comedy gold. Once in a while the mask slips and the LDP's contempt for democracy is revealed.

They never have, but it’s rude to actually say so!

Whoops, said the quiet part out loud. No steak and kyabakura for you this week.

Cabinet minister draws fire for saying gov't won't listen to opposition

Should read....

Cabinet minister draws fire for stating the obvious.

A politician who says what he thinks? That's a bolt out of the blue!

Got criticized for spitting the truth. Amazing that the other parties even jumped on the dog pile sensing a chance for LDP clout

LDP Foot in mouth disease

Is japan at the level of american politics yet where one refuses to negotiate, calls the other deep state and communists, and refuses to prosecute the former president because he is on THEIR team?

Yamagiwa is a victim of the echo chamber he choose to live in, when everybody you talk with considers positive and desirable to ignore the opposition there is a huge risk of forgetting common people consider this something negative.

A painful lesson for him but at least now the people got a glimpse of what the politicians actually think but usually don't say.

"Listening only to the voices of the ruling parties is dictatorship by intimidation," Osaka said.

Well, no, that is actually democracy basically.

Majority rules.

That is why it is critical that government power be restricted, so that each of us retains a very high degree of liberty over our own individual affairs.

We should only resort to democracy in limited circumstances, for this reason.

Sadly western democracies have been resorting to democracy far more than they should.