Taro Aso, current finance minister and deputy prime minister of Japan, has spoken of his annoyance with what he perceives as the negative impact of certain sections of Japan’s elderly population. His opinions chime with those of a significant body of commentators who feel that the allowances made for some older members of Japanese society are excessively generous and forgiving.
“The problem won’t be solved unless you let them hurry up and die,” said the 72-year-old former prime minister.
I do love his disclaimer though - "this is just my opinion".
ReplyDeleteApparently he was trying to argue that "this was just my opinion about myself if I was in that situation"...yeah right!
ReplyDeleteYeah, so long as he leads...
ReplyDeleteIsn't he old too?
ReplyDeleteMy dear friends,
ReplyDeleteI cherish you all utterly, value your contributions more than you will ever know, and have feelings for you verging on the unseemly, but please don't make me explain the joke here.
kisses,
kamo
xxx
Kamo & Ant, I just had a flash of inspiration! When you guys have put your kids through college, when you guys are done paying for it... I'll race you to the incinerator! Last one in is a rotten egg.
ReplyDeleteIncinerator? Those things don't come cheap, you know. Maintenance and fuel costs all add up. No, a bath of lime and a trip in a sack to a forest glade would be far less burdensome for everyone.
DeleteOh I get it now, pot called the kettle black and all that?
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Delete"My dear friends,
ReplyDeleteI cherish you all utterly,"
Ouch, like the blogger version of a "Dear John," letter :)
Meanwhile...he was the P.M. and now he's really at the wheel running the country deeper into the fucking ground.
Did CNN,MSNBC or anyone of remote merit give this any attention or are they busy doing "man reunited with his trash that floated across the Pacific" stories?
Well, I wouldn't want anyone to feel that I'm breaking up with them.
DeleteI did, however, spend literally minutes making sure the second half of each paragraph matched as closely as possible. I realise that subtler stuff might get missed in amongst all the cock stories, but still.
Minutes, I tell you.
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ReplyDeleteBTW...I appreciate not having to jump through hoops or push my face against the monitor to see fucked text and number codes just to have the comment await mod anyway.....I just noticed. You saved me 30 seconds of my life so I return it in the form of a "Thank you"
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I've missed the LDP. I had high hopes for Minshuto and even interned for one during the historic election, but they were sure boring. If you're going to fail spectacularly, at least make it amusing.
ReplyDeleteThere's a good deal of truth to that. Sadly, it's also the best I think we can expect :(
DeleteJust wish all these guys responsible for weakening the yen against the dollar would hurry up and die... I don't often pray, but when I do, it's for death to these guys.
ReplyDeleteI agree entirely. It doesn't help you, I know, but the one hope I cling to is that their counterparts in the UK seem intent on driving the British economy completely down the shitter, so for the moment at least it's kind of balancing out.
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