Social Security in Japan

[StuUnderPressure]

TOKYO - At a government panel to discuss social security reforms,Taro Aso, the former prime minister, called the elderly who are unable to feed themselves "tube people," then proceeded to say the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" to reduce the burden on a country tasked to pay for their medical expenses.

[chunkyfrog]

Venerate your elders--until it gets too expensive, inconvenient, messy, etc.
It was too good to last; welcome to the rest of the planet!

[DreamStalker]

TOKYO - At a government panel to discuss social security reforms,Taro Aso, the former prime minister, called the elderly who are unable to feed themselves "tube people," then proceeded to say the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" to reduce the burden on a country tasked to pay for their medical expenses.

Uhhh ... so what's the point of your quote?

[qmx]

We (on this site) are ALL "tube people". Our tubes are simply air tubes. I hope Obama doesn't sentence us all to euthanasia, to "decrease the surplus population"! DEAN

[DreamStalker]

We (on this site) are ALL "tube people". Our tubes are simply air tubes. I hope Obama doesn't sentence us all to euthanasia, to "decrease the surplus population"! DEAN

Huh?

I must have missed the part where Obama became the prime minister of Japan. For some reason I thought he was inaugurated to the POTUS. I must have got faked out like I did with the national anthem.

[qmx]

We (on this site) are ALL "tube people". Our tubes are simply air tubes. I hope Obama doesn't sentence us all to euthanasia, to "decrease the surplus population"! DEAN

Huh?

I must have missed the part where Obama became the prime minister of Japan. For some reason I thought he was inaugurated to the POTUS. I must have got faked out like I did with the national anthem.

Nope. Just applying what's happening in Japan to what COULD happen in the good old USA. I don't mean to offend. DEAN

[cosmo]

Bumping up the retirement age here is a start.

[DreamStalker]

We (on this site) are ALL "tube people". Our tubes are simply air tubes. I hope Obama doesn't sentence us all to euthanasia, to "decrease the surplus population"! DEAN

Huh?

I must have missed the part where Obama became the prime minister of Japan. For some reason I thought he was inaugurated to the POTUS. I must have got faked out like I did with the national anthem.

Nope. Just applying what's happening in Japan to what COULD happen in the good old USA. I don't mean to offend. DEAN

I was not offended -- at all. I was in fact being facetious.

What is happening in Japan is that their currency is in free fall. In fact, there is a world-wide currency war happening right now and all currencies are in free fall as a result. What that means for most everyone in a country with declining currency values is that their lifestyle cannot be sustained and won't be.

The vast majority of people simply have no clue how the monetary systems of the world work or the fact that all fiat currency based monetary systems have built into them a flaw that eventually results in a collapse and death of that currency. We happen to be living at a time when the global economy is so connected that all the currencies are collapsing simultaneously. People try to blame economic problems on the GOP or the DEMs or conservatives or liberals or socialists or capitalists or what ever their opposing team is on. Those are all non-issues that have nothing to do with the world's flawed monetary systems, which by the way, enables a fraudulent financial system for the 1% at the top to control the transfer and flow of wealth from the bottom up.

I think the chic financial term for this fraud is called "austerity". Mr. Aso just defined it a bit more cudely and bluntly ... "hurry up and die".

[johnthomasmacdonald]

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
~ Mahatma Ghandi

"A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members"
~Pope John Paul II


"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. "
~Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey


"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members".
~Pearl S. Buck


"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members -- the last, the least, the littlest."
~Cardinal Roger Mahony, In a 1998 letter, Creating a Culture of Life

"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."
~Samuel Johnson, Boswell: Life of Johnson

"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life."
~James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.

[cosmo]

"We're so screwed"
~Cosmo

[johnthomasmacdonald]

"We're so screwed"
~Cosmo

I did try to find some equivalent republican sentiment, the closest I could find was Romney's " at least 53% of you aren't total moochers "

[BlackSpinner]

TOKYO - At a government panel to discuss social security reforms,Taro Aso, the former prime minister, called the elderly who are unable to feed themselves "tube people," then proceeded to say the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" to reduce the burden on a country tasked to pay for their medical expenses.

Oh well I guess that is on par with American politicians saying a woman who is raped can't get pregnant.

[johnthomasmacdonald]

BlackSpinner wrote: "American politicians saying a woman who is raped can't get pregnant." -what an odd coincidence that the highest abortion rate in human history occurred in Germany in the wake of the Soviet Red Army who raped an estimated 1.4 million women ( that number BASED on the number of abortions when every nurse and doctor of any sort was taught how to perform an abortion given the number of pregnant women "claiming" they were raped by russian soldiers

[DreamStalker]

"We're so screwed"
~Cosmo

You'll be fine as long as you stay out there in outer space.

[qmx]

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
~ Mahatma Ghandi

"A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members"
~Pope John Paul II


"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. "
~Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey


"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members".
~Pearl S. Buck
Wow, Great quotes ... and great reminders of what civil societies should value. God bless. DEAN

"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members -- the last, the least, the littlest."
~Cardinal Roger Mahony, In a 1998 letter, Creating a Culture of Life

"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."
~Samuel Johnson, Boswell: Life of Johnson

"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life."
~James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.