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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sailwind
I've been looking over Governor Perry's record. Pretty darn impressive on the economic front. Have of all job creation in the entire nation during the past three years has been in Texas. It blows away anything President Obama has managed to accomplished. Unfortunately, he is also going to the full Palin treatment from the media if he gains real traction now that he is in. They are not going to promote his actual record and will start the dirt hunt. I hope he's ready for that and understands that the Media is not going to be his friend in anyway shape or form. I also think if he does start to catch fire based on his record in Texas the next couple of weeks, Palin will not make a run after all. His overall economic and tax policies along with regulation reform to promote job creation that he has implemented in Texas, pretty much mirrors her policies and positions and I think now that he is in the race she will not feel the need to throw her hat in the ring. I believe she will start working behind the scenes on throwing her support behind him.
Posted in: Bachmann wins Iowa straw poll; Perry enters GOP race
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That is of course an exceptional example, but more conventional ones clearly abound: that is why productivity has exploded as it has. Sadly for the foot soldiers who have driven this, their gains have gone in others' pockets. A company is no more a "person" than is a car or a school; a company is a means to an end - or, more precisely, to ends: that of providing goods of value to society,and that of providing a living to employees. It is unfortunate that the latter has been so neglected in our modern world.
Got it.
Cornerstone of progressive economics and ethics. Collectively, all losses and gains sum to zero. Your loss is our gain, and your gain is our loss. Whatever you own, it is at our expense. You owe your property to us by the virtue of you owning it. Losers contribute to the society and winners take away from it. Being a winner is immoral and selfish. A society of losers is happy and moral. In this sense, the United States is the worst society in the world. Americans eat because other people starve. On our planet with limited resources, the most ethical thing one can do is stop eating and starve to death. Bourgeois ideologues will lie to you that economy is a non-Zero-Sum game and that capitalism creates wealth without making others poor.
Posted in: Republicans hit hard at each other in debate
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sailwind
As a firm believer in human potential, it is my opinion that any human being can rise far above the dregs of the conservative mindset. So Tim Scott is quite likely much more than the token he's allowed himself to play for the moment.
Agreed, just a useful Idiot.
I should hope he is intelligent enough to realize that his blackness gave him a distinct advantage so that any white could point him out as an example of their inclusiveness -- just as you have
I'll let this just stand for what it is.....
Posted in: Republicans hit hard at each other in debate
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Yabits,
Got it. Tim Scott is nothing more than an African American who was entrusted by the voters of his district to represent them as long ass he tows the line. I sure he does not get uppity and actually think he was voted in because his district actually liked what he stood and campaigned for. I also hope he does not wake up and realize that the voters on his district played a big joke on him and are just using him.
Posted in: Republicans hit hard at each other in debate
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sailwind
Hey, It gets even better than that: South Carolina representative Tim Scott-- a token
Yabits,
A token what? Please clarify.
Posted in: Republicans hit hard at each other in debate
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sailwind
The point I was trying to make is that you can't expect all journalists to suddenly get undritically behind government policy just because that government is choosing to go to war.
No offense, but I do expect professional journalists to report uncritically whether positive and negative on whatever the facts may be falling on a story and leave their personal opinions and political leanings out on the stories they cover.
There is a reason newspapers have Op-Ed sections and the media also has plenty of commentators that fulfill the function of showing their particular viewpoints outside of the original reporting of a story.
Surely you wouldn't deem it "unbelievable" that some (few) parts of the Japanese media are crticising the current government over Fukushima?
Not now, But right after the quake. The focus was more on getting the Nuclear plant under control and the herioc efforts of those tasked with doing it. Until the plant was stable do you think reporting how crappy the J-GOV was and its policy during that critical time would have been helpful? Plenty of ink on that afterwards but not during the actual crisis..........Context again.
Posted in: Republicans hit hard at each other in debate
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sailwind
You ever read 1984?
Read it? I read when I was a young lad at 16 and it molded a lot of my political beliefs that have stayed with me my entire life. One of the main lessons from the book I have carried with me all my life is that context is important. The ability of a political system to change the context on its whims to suit "the current truth" such as the meme that the Tea Party is now "extremists". And also it is also totally off topic to the germaine point your trying to counter with by using 1984 as an example as you failed to mention anything to do with the context in your original post.
Context: The U.S was brutally attacked as a complete suprise on Sept 11th just as she was on Dec 6th 1941. The nation was united just as it was after that fateful day in Dec. Our press reflected that unity just as they did with FDR they extended that same coverage under the umbrella of national unity to GWB. The press was putting national unity ahead because that was exactly what was happening in the country to report. It should come as no suprise given the context of the times that "ace reporter" Jessica who seems to have wanted to report her bias instead of objective reporting given the context of the events, that her editors would have been a little more disposed not to run with her negative slanted stories.
Posted in: Republicans hit hard at each other in debate
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sailwind
Here is CNN correspondant Jessica Yelling speaking to Anderson Cooper about her time at MSNBC, the self proclaimed "Anti-Fox News", in 2002-2003 :
Yellin: And my own experience at the White House was that, the higher the president's [Bush's] approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives -- and I was not at this network at the time -- but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president.
2002-2003......Right after Sept 11th and the whole world was behind us, as we gearing up for war in Afghanistan to oust the Taliban and Jessica wanted to write 'negative stories' about George Bush at the time, unbelievable.
Posted in: Republicans hit hard at each other in debate
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sailwind
Nothing, but nothing, would see President Obama's ratings surge like him starting to kick the idiot TeaBgParty to the curb where they belong with the rest of the trash.
Nobody cares if he polls low in Arizona or South Carolina, as nobody expects ignorant, delusional white people to hold him in much esteem.
I see that 'civility' thing is still strong in Liberals. South Carolina Freshman Rep. Tim Scott was endorsed by the Tea party and was elected there. Since race seems to be so important to you, he is of African American descent.
Posted in: Republicans hold off Wisconsin Democrats
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sailwind
Protecting their own self interest through their union racket had nothing to do with it I suppose.
Posted in: Republicans hold off Wisconsin Democrats
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sailwind
I see once again that the Democrats have spent a ton of other people's money and have achieved mediocre results.
Posted in: Republicans hold off Wisconsin Democrats
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sailwind
Was Chrysler a good investment at $1/share back in 1980? A: Darned right it was. (Gold was also peaking then too -- to around $1000/oz -- before retreating back to below $300. Silver hit over $50/oz. before settling under $3.)
Got it......Buy the cheap stocks now. Just a small question, if they don't pan it. Can count on a taxpayer bail-out? To big to fail and all that. After all your a taxpayer and your cash is good as mine.
Posted in: Obama seeks to reassure faith in U.S. credit
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sailwind
Yabits,
Got it....Sell gold right now. What should I buy now after I sell?
Posted in: Obama seeks to reassure faith in U.S. credit
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sailwind
Interesting Yabits,
Investment analysts don't follow the advice or trends of a good economist? The difference being the advice of a good economist to an investment analyst is to what to actually invest in. interesting disconnect you have there.
Posted in: Obama seeks to reassure faith in U.S. credit
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Yabits,
Got it. Start digging a hole. Not enough to keep digging? Heck, borrow cash, keep digging. Still not enough cash , borrow some more keep digging hole.........Finally breakthrough and see daylight........Meet the landord......China.
Posted in: Obama seeks to reassure faith in U.S. credit
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sailwind
Laguna,
Boy that Paul Krugman is sure an economic genius. Heck this guy promised an unemployment rate under about 7 percent after his first Keynesian flush of about 800 billion of borrowed money in the stimulus.
I guess it since that did not quite work out it has to be Bush's fault.
Honest question, would you actually trust a dime of your money to Paul Krugman to invest for you?
No thanks on my part to that guy.
Posted in: Obama seeks to reassure faith in U.S. credit
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sailwind
Bill Clinton signed it into law, I suppose we can say it's all his fault.
Directly from the S&P's reason for the downgrade.
It appears that for now, new revenues have dropped down on the menu of policy options. In addition, the plan envisions only minor policy changes on Medicare and little change in other entitlements, the containment of which we and most other independent observers regard as key to long-term fiscal sustainability…
Just to be sure folks understand what the real reason was for the downgrade.
Posted in: Obama seeks to reassure faith in U.S. credit
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sailwind
Fail.... then and now.
Posted in: U.S. credit rating cut for first time ever
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sailwind
No offense but....Duh......They sheltered their money, as if that was some kind of a shocker. The " Rolling Stones" did the same thing to avoid Britain's tax rate. Do you really think if tax rates went up for the wealthy they haven't already sheltered the money?
Posted in: U.S. credit rating cut for first time ever
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Raising tax rates on the rich is useless unless the revenue raised goes directly to paying off the debt. Which means revenue raised does nothing for the Democrats if it was put that part of our fiscal mess. Republicans and those that are part of the Tea Party understand that. They also understand that giving Govt more cash in the form of a tax increase results in Govt squandering the cash and spending it on exactly what it promised not to. The last thing you do is give an alcoholic more booze, or a spendaholic a cash and expect a different result. The issue is pretty simple when you get past all the political talking points. We as a nation have lived on easy credit for to long and bluffed our way to pay it back. The folks that lend us money are tired of "I will gladly pay back Tuesday for a hamburger today" to qoute Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons. Until we show as a nation that we are really serious about getting our spending under real control and our Govt back to being a responsible steward of the revenue it receives we deserve a downgrade in our credit rating, why............Because we earned it.
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