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  GW at 08:09 AM JST - 1st May

  wud be nice if it were true, hey nice to notice there is a lotta wasteful spending, NO BLOODING KIDDING, if you really want to be the man who did something about this mess than here is what you need to do.......

  You need to cut ALL ministries budgets by 20% & freeze it at that level for 10yrs & then review a decade later. It is abundantly clear to anyone who has been on these rocks for a bit that with all the waste, out right stealing of our taxes ALL Ministries cud easily make do with 20% less funding, now get to it!

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  Scrote at 08:42 AM JST - 1st May

  "We have decided to immediately stop inappropriate spending of road-related taxes and introduce competitive bidding.” : i.e. inappropriate spending and bid rigging are endemic and nothing has been done about it.

  I thought competitive bidding was mandatory, but the government ignores the rules as a matter of course?

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  GW at 09:04 AM JST - 1st May

  Scrote

  its bid rigging & kick backs that are mandatory in Jpn, competitive bidding is a buzz word to be used to assure the J-pop their Govt is doing them right all the while wasting & stealing from them.

  I dont fret about it too much other than to sound off here for fun & entertainment, Japanese are only slowly starting to realize that their re-voting of the LDP & allowing the beaurocrats to fleece them actually is going to have a price to pay, just ask the seniors they are starting to get their just rewards by having the health benefits lowered, thye are reaping what they have sown

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  some14some at 09:06 AM JST - 1st May

  Nothing is wasteful ask any bureaucrat, also nothing is going to change ask any LDP member what leads to Roads to Success !

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  presto345 at 11:49 AM JST - 1st May

  Well, the nonsense road 'repair' projects in my area are still in full swing. Inappropriate spending? Right. Fukuda is admitting it exists. The issue has come up time and again for decades, the government promising change every time. Who are we going to trust and when?

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  GW at 01:59 PM JST - 1st May

  presto

  bottom is you simply cannot trust the LDP & the beauracracy, they are totaly in it for themselves, the rest of Jpn they cud care less.

  You have to save for yr own future & take care of yrself, anything you get back from govt etc shud be considered a surprise bonus, its the only way you survive

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  smithinjapan at 05:09 PM JST - 1st May

  Here's a start: walk into EVERY City Hall in the country and fire 70% of the male staff (since the women do all their work anyway AND have to serve them tea!); stop wasting money at the end of March on unnecessary crap just because 'we were allotted it and there's still lots left over'...

  I could go on and on, but won't bother, since nothing at all is going to change.

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  Nessie at 05:27 PM JST - 1st May

  Or they could just lose the pension records. Oops, already tried that.

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  redacted at 06:11 PM JST - 1st May

  "I could go on and on, but won't bother, since nothing at all is going to change."

  Why do you stay?

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  GW at 06:45 PM JST - 1st May

  smithinjpn

  yeah city halls & their branches, swarms of people with little to do, these are way overstaffed & at the end of the rows of desks is the oyaji sitting at his desk covered in sports shimbuns, sitting there like god & probably cud get their work done for the week by around noon monday if they wanted to.

  redacted

  ah the why do you stay, go home reply........lame

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  usaexpat at 12:10 AM JST - 2nd May

  I'll believe it when I see it. There is so much waste, fraud and outright theft that we could probably not pay any tax for a year if the government were cleaned up.

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  medievaltimes at 02:30 PM JST - 2nd May

  introduce competitive bidding

  Competitive bidding doesnt exist in Japan. As much as I would like to blame the government, I think the public is as much if not more to blame. They are so docile, submissive and easy to manipulate.

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