JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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Alphaape
I may be able to buy that for a little, but another question remains in my mind. why didn't the mother follow up with a call to her son to see if he got the money? Seems kind of odd to me not to at least follow up. I guess the son has done this type of thing before asking money from the mother. It would seem that she is familiar with this type of behavior.
Also, I guess the mother must not have talked to the son much. I live around the world from my family, but I do take the time at least once a week to drop a line to see if all is well, and to just conversate with family. I guess that is one of the mysteries of Japan. You have a whole holiday period of going back to remember dead relatives and setting up candles outside the door for them, but you don't take the time to speak to them while they are living. Interesting.
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Alphaape
@Assago: The killing you mentioned in these places is being done by other Muslims to innocent muslims. In Libya, yes drones and bombs are falling from the air, but it is done at the request of the breakaway factions from Khadafi during their civil war. If both sides weren't fighting each other, there would be no bombing.
In Somalia, there may be a missile flown in, but most of the killing is from one faction against another. Not to mention the factions that are not letting relief supplies in for people starving from the famine.
Same inPakistan and Afg. Suicide bombers target their own fellow Muslims.
So, if anything, this guy should be saying he should be issuing a jihad against jihad.
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Alphaape
WEll, I guess Dave will not be telling too many more jokes about the war in the Middle East and standing behind the likes of Anderson Cooper and the rest of the media's "Arab Spring" rebellions.
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Alphaape
@paulinusa: Nothing wrong with the incentives to hire the unemployed, but what will he actually propose? Take a look at an article that has been posted on the web about the last batch of "Green Jobs" that were supposed to occur in Seattle in weatherproofing homes from grants from the first stimulus. To date, $21million has been spent, to hire 14 people (mostly administrators to oversee the project) and only an handful of homes have had the actual work.
I think the best thing Obama could do is say, that Obamacare will not be enacted until we show growth in the economy for at least 2 years, thereby businesses will not be hesitant to hire and not worrying about how they are going to be hit with higher taxes to pay for healthcare.
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Alphaape
@yabits: I suggest you read the book "Do as I Say, Not As I Do" about how some on the left are very hypocritcal when it comes to what they seem to fight for and how they live. My comments about ACORN are very relevant to this case. Community organizing groups and unions pay protestors to picket outside of local Wal-Marts to demand that they pay higher wages to their employees. However, those organizations only pay about $5/hour for the protestors. Wal-Mart, normally starts pay around $7.25 (or around that amount). So for groups to send people to protest about minimum wage jobs, and then doesn't even pay the people that they hire to do it smacks of hypocrisim to me. If they minimum wage is not liveable, then I would expect those groups to send people out paying them that amount or more. But they seem to not be willing to do so. I guess that would cut into their "donations" that they receive and would leave them with fewer money to pay their pensions (oh I forgot, the company pays employee pensions and not the unions) or to give to lobbyist.
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Alphaape
@Virtuoso: The Civil rights act of 1965, was passed to make sure that the rights that blacks had gained after the Civil War and the first civil rights act (passed in 1869 by Grant) were enforced. They were still on the books, but the Plessy v. Ferguson decision made by the Supreme Court in the late 1890's pretty much took away some of their effectiveness.
The Great Society had nothing to do with Civil RIghts in terms of Black vs. White, but trying to eradicate poverty by eacting social programs, that some at the time said would further continue the poverty. Take a closer look at some of the legislature that was passed in terms of welfare. Women who had no father in the home were eligible. If a man was in the home, then the family was not eligible. So what do you thing people will do in that case? Go for the option that will give them the money, and thus you have the situation that you have in America now. I know of people who have spent generations on the public dole, and do not see a problem with it. The policies that were inacted though they had good intentions, fell way short of what they needed to do.
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Alphaape
@Oracle: Let me give you a clue. If this had happened in a place like Japan, then your statement would be valid since there may have been other reasons why someone wanted this woman dead. But in Afg, you can assume that if a woman is killed in this manner, it is because some persons thought that she had violated the tenets of Islam. Whether she was doing something as simple as going to a school to learn to read, or visiting a medical clinic, or heaven forbid, seen walking with a male that was not related to her.
I say let the international community pull out of there, and let them sort out all of their problems themselves.
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Alphaape
I hate to sound grim, but I hope that they check out his family to make sure that everyone is ok. This nut case sounds liket the type that would off his parents, and then try some stunt like this to go to jail to get taken care of.
If not, he will soon be on the World's Dumbest Criminals show.
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Alphaape
The topic is how economic competitiveness is impacted by a minimum wage and/or collective bargaining.
I understand why you want to go back out into left field since you can't offer anything that's relevant.
@yabits: My comments do add to the discussion. The countries that you name don't have the same social issues that the USA does. They can afford to offer higher wages, simply because they tax heavier than the US and give more benefits to their citizens. The USA can't. We take on a massive immigrant community who get paid minimum wage (if they are lucky) and who also drain our social services system. Sure we can increase the minimum wage, but then those same people will be required to pay more to taxes, if we are to be able to give them the same lifestyle as you say those two countries have.
I am for increasing the workers right to get better compensation. But you must realize you just can't make money appear and spread it around evenly.
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Alphaape
I wonder does Denmark or Switzerland have to deal with gangs like MS13, and turning what used to be poor areas in the US into worser hell holes and combat zones like the ones I see now in some areas of the US. Does Denmark and Switzerland have a huge uneducated population of immigrants and natives that can't do high tech jobs, and thus rely on the public dole to support them.
So, if they have those problems, and manage to make their societies a socailst haven, then good for them. But the US is a differnt place, and those pie in the sky dreams that you keep expousing will not work here.
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Alphaape
RIP in soldier!
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Alphaape
I wonder did she pose with that idiotic "peace" sign with her fingers. Can her relatives sue her traveling partners for negligence under Japanese law?
Sad for her to die this way, but when you stradle a fence above a steep fall, you are taking the risks all on your own.
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Alphaape
@yabits: What are the low cost Finnish and German products that are flooding the world's markets today?
Also, go back andre-read my post. How many of those companies that the left seems to believe are "good" (i.e. big financial supporters) actually pay more than the minimum wage?
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Alphaape
Will someone give me an example of a company that has a well known CEO who gives to the Dems and other Far Left organizations that pays well above the minimum wage and gives their workers generous benifits?
Look at the trouble the Huffington Post had when she sold it to AOL, and the bloggers are now saying that they didn't get paid and are trying to sue for back wages. Or look at ACORN, who led strikes against Wal-Mart because of their pay practices, but yet was paying the crowds that they bussed in to picket stores below what the hourly wage was working in Wal-Mart. Better yet, take a look at the movie industry itself. Without a doubt is is pretty left of center, and though some in the industry do make it rich, and I am glad for it, but look at what those who are not so lucky get paid, even with a union like the SAG and other trade unions. The same industry that goes to D.C. to get funding and laws passed so that they can get tax relief, and still ship production of a lot of shows to places like Canada.
So, I don't think that it is just a "conservative" thing, but also liberal businessess too. Just check where that latest Apple gadget was manufactured, and ask Jobs why he would rather ship work overseast to get done than here in the USA.
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Alphaape
@yabits: How are the collective bargaining rights in China doing today? The main reason why China can mass produce is that don't have a minum wage law, and so they can afford to pay very little to get workers to do the work. It puts an unfair advantage to places like Japan and the US who have to pay more.
I started off working at $3.35/hour many years ago. It was small but I made do with it. Yes some employers may be able to pay more, but keep in mind, the more they pay, they have to also pay the corresponding amout of payroll taxes to the government. I say, get rid of some of those taxes employees have to pay for their workers, and maybe then theymay be able to pay a larger salary.
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Alphaape
The Chinese should respond: "It's none of your business." Just because Japan continutes to believe that the rest of the world will honor their constitution and not go to war is foolish thinkng on Japan's part. China wants to be able to one day protect their access to fuel and other resources from places like Africa and the Middle East on their own, and not rely on the UN or the US.
If I were Japan, i would ask the question, why don't we have one, and can we really depend on the USA.
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Alphaape
@tkoind2: What about the treatment of "W" by the far left. I remember people like Cod Pink protesting W at his ranch for being in the wars in Afg and Iraq. I don't see them up at Martha's Vineyard doing the same to Obama.
I don't think so. Not sure whom I will support, but it is probably more the opposite. The Dems will not make a step across the aisle to compromise. Just like Obama, he is such an ideolouge that he is the one that can't reach across the aisle, since he is afraid of losing his base support. At least Bill Clinton, who was an ideaolouge was able to reach across the aisle and push items like Welfare reform.
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Alphaape
@zurcronium: So when Axelrod and the Obama campaign machine say that the way they are going after Romney is to attack him and not talk about the gains made under Obama, I think the real winner was anyone of the persons on the stage. No matter who the Rep nominee is, they can expect dirty politics from the same person who urged us all to be civil in the political arena.
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Alphaape
@soundandthefury: So help me understand, you say that Perry is violating the division of church and state, I guess you are basing this on his recent Pray for America meeting. Then I guess Obama is just as guilty, since yesterday he celebratged the Iftar Dinner celebrated by Muslims during Ramadan. He even went so far as to say that Muslims have been an intergral part of the American history (that's another story). So, hosting a dinner like that, in the White House, is that violating the seperation of Church and State in your opinion, or is that only reserved for Christians? Just curious>
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Alphaape
At least we don't have to worry about an armed populace in Japan since personal firearms are not allowed. Where are all of those posters who keep saying that everytime a disturbance involving gunfire in the USA, that we don't need guns since you can easily disarm someone with a knife a lot easier.
Point well taken.
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