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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Wolfpack
Show me the moneyyyyyyyyy!!!!
Posted in: Wisconsin unions rush to get deals in place
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Wolfpack
Not possible for Reeves to be as bad a Cruise; even if he played the role as a California surfer dude - playing the role of an 18th century Japanese samurai.
Posted in: Ko Shibasaki celebrates Hollywood debut as Keanu Reeves’ lover in '47 Ronin'
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SushiSake3 says:
You can't shift the blame when President Obama and the Democrats had a filibuster proof majority for over a year. They just couldn't get it done. Obama can't even get Democrats to go along with his hair-brained ideas on dealing with terrorism. They spent all of their time pushing their socialist health care plan and put Guantanamo on the back burner. Let's face it, Liberals don't "really" care about those bad guys down there. They just used the issue to hammer Bush while he was in the White House. Now that they are in charge, they are going to talk in circles about what they promised before and quietly acquiesce to Bush's policy.
Posted in: Obama restarts Guantanamo trials
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Wolfpack
Sanity prevails for once. Everyone should know that government cannot spend a nation to prosperity. I hope the people in Washington and Tokyo can also find the courage to tell the people that the party is over and the bills have to be paid.
Posted in: Wisconsin approves anti-union measure
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Wolfpack
Obama, Clinton, and the "international community" are going to sit back and watch Gadhafi's slaughter from the comfort of their posh mansions and embassies.
Posted in: US, Europe pressure Libya but ease off militarily
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Wolfpack
The last I heard the Wisconsin Democrats are going to knuckle under and return to vote. Wasn't it President Obama that said elections have consequences when he slammed Senator McCain during the health care meeting in the oval office. Well, elections in Wisconsin have consequences as well. The voters are facing up to the fiscal reality that the states (and the country) are broke. Like it or not Liberals, it is time to pay for the spending binge.
Posted in: Wisconsin governor rebuffs Democrats' request for meeting
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Wolfpack
Wasn't it President Obama that said:
"Rather than keeping us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security. It is a rallying cry for our enemies"
So why hasn't he closed Gitmo yet? He promised he would when he campaigned for president. Oh let me guess - because Bush was right and he was spectacularly wrong. He is sadly naive and ill-equipped to be the chief executive of a tug boat let alone a country. He is in way over his head.
Posted in: Obama restarts Guantanamo trials
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Wolfpack
Maybe Obama can find some of the $3 trillion he blew on a failed stimulus and other reckless spending over the last two years. His ideology told him that that if he flew Air Force One over the country and dropped money by the bucket loads that the unemployment rate would never exceed 8%. Well, by his own definition this demand side gimmick failed miserably.
The federal budget should be set back to 2008 levels and left there until the budget deficit - and more importantly a large portion of the nations debt - is paid off. Then and only then should the government be talking about more spending - I mean "investment" - in public programs. People seem blissfully and in some cases intentionally ignorant of the seriousness of the nations debt problems.
Posted in: Obama offers deeper spending cuts, appeals for budget deal
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Wolfpack
I've always thought it more than just a little strange that when designers show their latest clothing designs accompanied they include such by odd "accessories". This head dress is over the top (in my opinion). People can figure out the design influences without being hit over the head with it. It also takes attention away from the clothing itself; which may be the real reason for such ostentatious displays.
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Wolfpack
Not so. Obama is basing his proposed budget on a reduction in increases on the phantom budget that the Democrats failed to pass last year when they had control of both houses of Congress. His budget is a dishonest political document. He is not leading and is definitely not serious about doing anything about a huge and unsustainable budget deficit and the government debt. He is obviously waiting for Republicans to take the lead with proposals that he will then just attack. He has no idea what he is doing and has no plan to get the country out of the huge fiscal hole that he is largely responsible for creating.
Posted in: Obama offers deeper spending cuts, appeals for budget deal
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Wolfpack
This is truly peanuts and look how tangled up in knots Congress and President Obama have been over this. It's pitiful that the Democrats are whining about even this tiny cuts.
What will really matter is what happens in April when the Republicans come up with their own budget. Obama's budget released last month was a joke - cut's nothing and adds over a trillion in debt each year well after he is long gone from office. He complained that he didn't want to suggest any cuts because he would just set himself up for criticism for doing so. Well, if he were a leader he could stand the heat - but his budget shows that he is not a leader at all. Just another run of the mill Socialist trying to force others to do his bidding.
Posted in: Republicans win first budget skirmish; bigger fight looms
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Wolfpack
What? That guy has lived the hard life - raised by a single mother in drug infested public housing just trying to survive life on the streets. Snoop Dog's lame rhymes ain't got noth'in on this dude.
Posted in: Making a spectacle of himself
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Wolfpack
Federal workers do not have collective bargaining rights and I don't see President Obama lamenting their pay, benefits, or working conditions. In fact, Obama just recently froze the pay of federal employees. I also find it interesting that you haven't heard much from him lately about the "union-busting" that he believes is supposedly going on in Wisconsin. The fact is that along with the Federal government, many other US states also do not allow collective bargaining for public employees. If FDR was against it, how can any self-respecting left-winger not agree?
BTW - there is a good chance that the person that wrote this article works in a union in the state of Wisconsin.
Posted in: Facts overshadowed in debate over union bill in Wisconsin
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paulinusa says:
Good point. These groups are supporters of the governor but still should not be exempted from the benefit restrictions on collective bargaining (there is no attempt to take away "all" of unions rights as implied by the headline of this afticle). I hope they are next.
The governor should be pushing for what Indiana did six years ago, and that is to become a right to work state. It's deplorable that a person has to pay a union (which in itself is a private organization) in order to get a job (especially in the public sector).
Posted in: Wisconsin Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
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jason6 says:
I find this to be an apt comparison. Since China is undeniably a much more socialist country than the US and is simply a workers union on a national scale, the idea that unions are beneficial to American workers is clearly false.
There was a time in place for unions. However, the ideas that were the original motivation for them (safe working conditions, 40 hour work week, vacation time, etc) have now been codified into law for both public and private workers. The idea that unions are needed to ensure that the average middle class worker has "rights" is false.
The role that unions play in American society today is as another interest group like the AARP, energy, civil rights, agriculture, and thousands of other groups that seek to gain benefits for themselves from government. Their pay and benefits are better if not very comparable with private sector workers. They have allied themselves with Democrats because they are essentially socialist - just like China.
So if you want America to be more like China, support unions. If you want your country to be free and allow it's citizens to choose their own path in life, oppose unions as they are currently formed in America today.
Posted in: Wisconsin Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
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Wolfpack
Unions are themselves coercive. They force you to pay them in order to work in certain jobs. In turn, public unions use this money to buy politicians that will do their bidding (ie. President Barack Obama). I'm with FDR on this one, public unions are just plane wrong. At a minimum, public sector unions should not be able to prevent people from getting a job just because they do not want to pay them to promote their socialist ideology.
Posted in: Wisconsin governor pranked by caller posing as donor
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smithinjapan says:
Gestapo? It just so happens that the state troopers being tarred as Nazi's are in fact members of a Wisconsin union. I suppose that due to the blitzkrieg that President Obama's pro-union (and pro-fiscal disaster) forces have thrown at a governor attempting to do what he told the voters he would do if he were elected, this word is an apt description.
FDR was against public unions for a reason - and this is it.
What's ridiculous is that these Wisconsin state senators were elected to do a job that they now refuse to do because they see that they will not be able to get their way. This is the kind of things that usually only happen on playgrounds and other places were petulant little children might gather. In a democracy, should should elected officials refuse to participate whenever they don't get their way? If this type of tactic spreads it will prevent anything from getting done.
These so-called "representatives" need to go do their job. Go vote and when they lose, take their case to the people and try to get more support in the next election. The Democrats set the groundwork for this showdown by creating the benefit crisis that is hitting the state and crippling the state budget. They have over promised benefits that cannot be paid for in the future. It's kind of like Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare. Something needs to change to break the cycle of spending in state and federal governments alike.
Posted in: Wisconsin Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
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Wolfpack
This just seems wrong. There is at least a tacit public acceptance of materials that go into the area of underage eroticism. The line seems to get crossed way to often in Japan.
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Wolfpack
@SolidariTea:
No, not really. This is chump change.
I do not believe that Americans have seriously thought about how truly damaging the deficits and debt accumulating under President Obama has become to the nations economic future. Obama is on pace to rack up more debt in one presidential term than all previous presidents combined.
Unless the three big entitlement programs are reformed or better yet - privatized - the US will go under economically much as the Soviet Union did in the late 1980's.
If America does not move back towards it's capitalist free-market roots than it will continue to decline and lose all that made it great. Socialism isn't what made America great - it is what got America in this fiscal mess. I include the corporate form of Socialism in this as well.
Posted in: Republicans promise $100 billion in spending cuts
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Wolfpack
A paltry $100 billion is nothing. With an annual budget deficit of $1.5 trillion, that's the best they can do?
That is exactly the kind of thinking that got America in the terrible financial situation that it currently finds itself in. The American dream is to be free to accomplish anything that your own determination and hard work will allow without government standing in your way. It's not about the government giving you a hand to do what it thinks you should do. In most parts of the world - and increasingly in the US - the government micromanages the lives of individuals and places limits on their aspirations. I can't stand how Socialist America has become.
Posted in: Republicans promise $100 billion in spending cuts