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
Yes, both Democrats and Republicans are wrong. Instead of making tax policy with an eye towards creating a lasting expansion, they pass a paltry bill that will have zero effect on an economy the size of the US and whose miniscule benefits will end in a year. It simply adds $15 billion to the national debt and really no benefit.
I don't wish anyone to "die". But should the government be obligated to pay for every human need? I don't think so. There has to be a balance between charity to those less fortunate and creating unsustainable dependencies. The US government has done that through multiple programs that encourage people to not look for work, to retire early, etc. On ahd by the way, does anyone supporting more government programs realize the seriousness of the US deficit and debt? Obviously, they do not.
Posted in: House Democratas, White House push ahead on health care
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Wolfpack
The fact that the US government already has so many social programs that it can't pay for makes it even more nonsensical that the Dems are pushing ObamaCare - this after a full year of failure with a filibuster proof control on Congress. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are not sustainable and are a tremendous failure by government.
The reason why President Obama's approval ratings are under 50% and the Dems have lost a string of special elections for Senate and Governor is because the American people do not want another huge government program that we can't affort. How about fixing Social Security and it's trillions in unfunded liabilities? How about paying down our soon to be $14 trillion national debt? How about getting the annual budget under control - $1.6 trillion will be added to the national debt this year alone. All of these plush social programs won't do anybody much good when a Greek style bankruptcy grips the nation in a decade or two.
ObamaCare is a very short-sighted ideologically driven program that is based solely on Obama's ego and arrogant insistence on foisting his Leftist ideology on a country that clearly doesn't want it.
Posted in: House Democratas, White House push ahead on health care
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Wolfpack
adaydream:
Yeah, a $15 billion tax break for companies to fire then re-hire someone else so they can qualify for a tiny tax break that ends after a single year. Wow, that is just brilliant economic leadership. That will surely turn the huge (in the trillions) American economy around. Such lack of common sense is exactly why ObamaCare is so unpopular with the American people. American's want an improved health care system, they just don't want the government running it. Why not let people run their own lives?
Posted in: House Democratas, White House push ahead on health care
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Wolfpack
I think the issue comes down to the fact that Americans already have an unsustainable amount of government spending and President Obama's plan simply creates more unsustainable spending for an aging population whose health care needs will continue to grow. The US is running a $1.6 trillion "annual" deficit now. More spending and highter taxes for health care leaves less room for actually reducing the defict. What we need is less government spending on health care, not more.
The last time that the plans in Congress were "scored", it was determined that the plan as written would reduce spending over ten years by around $250 billion. First of all, this is a tiny amount of savings that would not stop current government health care spending from adding to the deficit. So the deficit will still grow even with the plan. Secondly, the plan used ten years of taxes to pay for six or seven years of health care spending. Therefore, the savings are an illusion. This is the underlying dishonesty of the Democrats legislation.
We are already seeing European countries on the brink of bankruptcy. Greece is just the first with Italy, Ireland, and others moving in that direction as well. The US is moving that way also even without an even greater government control over health care than it already has. Current spending on Social Security and health care (Medicaid and Medicare) are drowning the country in debt. ObamaCare does not solve these problems but simply compounds them by adding additional unfunded government obligations. Just ask the governments actuaries about future obligations and it's terrifying. No more government programs - cut them instead! It's the only way to avoid a coming fiscal disaster of the likes we now see in Greece.
Posted in: Obama, Republicans clash at heated health summit
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Wolfpack
I can never understand how someone can love a person so much that they would actually kill them.
Oh yeah, if only this mentally disturbed man wasn't able to get a gun I'm sure he couldn't have done any harm to Paulson. We all know that guns are the only thing that any human being has ever used in the history of the world to kill another person with.
Posted in: Infatuated man kills U.S. teacher outside school
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Wolfpack
I was impressed by the overall quality of the skating in this years Olympics. There were not that many huge mistakes and I don't think any of the top skaters fell down on the last day (but I'm not sure about that). There were some obvious bobbles here and there though.
The scoring system does seem out of whack to me. Kim was the best skater but not by such a huge margin. I think the one thing that works against Mao is her relative lack of length compared to other skaters such as Kim and Nagasu. That was something that always worked against Midori Ito even though she was an athletic dynamo. Elegance still counts a lot in skating and despite her superior jumping ability, her small mistakes and her shorter arms and legs worked against her. It's just one of those things that has to be overcome by some other skill or athletic ability (ie. Ito's great jumps).
I don't understand how Nagasu didn't score better on the last night because I thought she was perfect. However, I'm not a figure skating expert so how can I say what score she really deserved. I think it gets back to the new scoring system and the fact that it doesn't seem to do a good job of evaluating the skaters overall abilities. There are also those "subjective" things that make ice skating so frustrating for fans of one skater or another.
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Wolfpack
my2sense:
I used to be an avid runner but could never imagine running a marathon. Hope you get your best time and have fun. Best of luck.
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Wolfpack
If gays and lesbians are allowed to serve openly in the military then they will require separate facilities just as is the case currently for men and women. Or else put gays in the womens facilities and lesbians with the men. Otherwise, it wouldn't make sense to keep men and women separate either. There should be no separation what-so-ever. No mens and womens bathrooms, no separate bathrooms and showers.
Posted in: Top U.S. Army, Air Force warn against lifting gay ban too quickly
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Wolfpack
So much for bi-partisanship. On yeah, what about those jobs?
Posted in: House Democratas, White House push ahead on health care
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Wolfpack
President Obama has a strategy to force America to be socialists whether they want to be or not. He has gambled that his arrogant fillibuster of a meeting yesterday would allow him to make his central planning dreams come true. The problem is the public still hates his policies - especially his two major policy agenda items - health care and global warming. Even with 60 Democrat votes in Congress he couldn't get his health care boondoggle through Congress. A Republican won a special election for that arch Liberal Teddy Kennedy's seat in the Senate due to specifically stating that he would be the 41st vote against ObamaCare. Obama dawdled and blew it when he had a super majority in the Senate. Now he is desperate and will stop at nothing to ram a policy that even members of his own party down want down the throats of the America public. Marx and Engels would love Obama. The Founding Fathers would be mortified. The public is clearly against ObamaCare and his Machiavellian maneuvers in Congress will surely fail.
Posted in: Obama, Republicans clash at heated health summit
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Wolfpack
Don't do it! Both Democrats and Republicans will just put on a show for the cameras that could set back US-Japan relations. Although it would be a bad idea to go before the US Congress, it would be helpful for a high level representative to come to the US - the companies largest market - and make it clear that the company is doing all it can to resolve the various problems that they and their customers are facing. It wouldn't hurt to brush up on American culture and how to handle the PR is that country. Just bowing and apologies are not how to do it.
Posted in: Toyota undecided on president's trip to U.S.
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Wolfpack
There are actually 80,000 pro-North ethnic Korean residents in Japan? They must not have access to the internet or are unable to read the local Japanese newspapers. How else to explain how so many people could still support a repressive regime that has caused the deaths of millions of their fellow Koreans.
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Wolfpack
The US military will do their job professionally along with their Afghan and coalition allies. This is hard work that doesn't get done overnight. I support President Obama's efforts in Afghanistan. Despite the Nobel committee's overt effort to influence American foreign policy by giving the peace prize to a guy that obviously hasn't earned it, Obama has a chance to make good on this prize by defeating the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Posted in: Thousands of U.S. Marines, Afghan troops attack Taliban-held town
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Wolfpack
Yet another Leftist protest group that wants to impose it's opinions and values on the rest of the world. I find it to be very ironic that they would make the Olympics the target for their violent activities. I guess they got tired of hammering nails into trees in order to kill or injure loggers. I guess those nut jobs need to do something while waiting to disrupt the next G-8 Summit.
Posted in: 200 Olympic protesters smash Vancouver department store windows
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Wolfpack
Lovely lady and nice picture - though the size of the apple makes Aya look like a little person. I like Fuji apples, but never try to tell a Japanese person that Fuji apples are not the best. My wife cannot even comprehend it to be a possibility.
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Wolfpack
President Obama tried to ram his agenda through Congress while he had both a majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate - and he still failed. That's just plain feckless leadership!
He isn't serious about being bipartisan. He just wants to appear to be so. He lost just a single seat in the Senate and his most important legislative issue - health care - is dead. He refuses to compromise and negotiate with RINO's (Republicans in name only) like Senator Collins and Senator Snow. All he had to do over the past year is just give in a little to these Liberal Northeast Senators and he would have gotten just about anything he wanted. He just can't bring himself to moderate his Socialist tendencies.
President Obama could start by ceasing his unending backward looking blame shifting and get serious about leading. He wants to feed red-meat to his Liberal base and bash Republicans day after day and then wants to invite a few Republicans over to the White House expecting to charm them into buying into his ultra-Leftist agenda. The man is clearly out of touch.
Posted in: Obama meets with GOP to spur job growth
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Wolfpack
I'm not sure that you can say that Leah Dizon is a 'singer'. She made her name as a bikini model.
Posted in: Pachslot
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Wolfpack
Never heard of this lady before - but nice pose and nice suit.
Posted in: Imalu suits up for Aoyama
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Wolfpack
Will America have to bail out Europe yet again?
No - Europe you are on your own this time. America needs to worry about it's own debt crisis. I doubt that China would come to America's rescue so let's not get ourselves into that situation in the first place.
Posted in: Europe's debt crisis intensifies
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Wolfpack
What is so ironic is now President Obama is starting to talk about bipartisanship, open debate with C-SPAN television in the room involving all sides to bring their ideas to the table to come up with a consensus solution to the health care problems facing the nation. This is what he told everyone during the campaign he would do but didn't when it was time to make good on his promises. He just tried to ram through a total overhaul of American health care based on socialist principles. Now that he has failed he wants a second bite at the apple. Well, I think he should get a second chance. However, this time it should be focused on the 10 million Americans who can't afford health care and in re-connecting it's cost with the people that use it. America has a massive yearly budget defgicit and a huge debt. A socialist solution to any problem is usually not very rational given the many experiments with this ideology over the last century - but now it would be disasterous. Thank goodness ObamaCare is dead. Let's just hope that the Dems don't try to resurrect this Frankenstein of a policy.
Posted in: Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill