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dagon
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.
Cricky
This ministerial position for revitalisation, has anyone got one example of it being involved in a positive outcome for more than 10 people?
Mickelicious
An honest politician. How refreshing.
bokuda
That's a good assessment of Japanese politics.
Alfie Noakes
Comedy gold. Once in a while the mask slips and the LDP's contempt for democracy is revealed.
englisc aspyrgend
They never have, but it’s rude to actually say so!
antifun
Whoops, said the quiet part out loud. No steak and kyabakura for you this week.
Mr Kipling
Should read....
Cabinet minister draws fire for stating the obvious.
Coulda been
A politician who says what he thinks? That's a bolt out of the blue!
GillislowTier
Got criticized for spitting the truth. Amazing that the other parties even jumped on the dog pile sensing a chance for LDP clout
Yrral
LDP Foot in mouth disease
juminRhee
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?
virusrex
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.
fxgai
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.