JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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sailwind
Yes "People's Capitalism"
Modified capitalism in which exploitation is tolerated on condition that the people's exploiters profess and support the socialist ideology and return most of their immoral profits to the people through taxes. People's Capitalism and allow small amounts of greed and selfishness to create capitalist wealth that we later confiscate for The Greater Good™. A thoroughly cultivated atmosphere of guilt associated with profiteering, forces capitalists to donate even more money for progressive causes. Such symbiosis between wealth creators and wealth consumers has been achieved in most European countries and to some extent in the United States.
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sailwind
Redistribution of Wealth:
Act of returning world's resources to rightful owners, the People. Must be performed regardless of one's input in order better to erase the false concept of private property. It is constantly under attack by the right-wing ideologues for threatening capitalism's vile celebration of self-interest and individualism. The equitable society of the future will have no redistribution of wealth because there will be nothing to distribute.
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sailwind
The "Greater Good"
A metaphysical concept designating anything that undercuts capitalism and the frivolous American way of life, and/or promotes the new, progressive mode of being. Any action taken with altruistic intentions in mind, regardless of its practical result or purpose, or of the misery that it may produce, is considered a contribution to The Greater Good
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sailwind
Please stop with the false information.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a U.S. Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It requires hospitals to provide care to anyone needing emergency healthcare treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay.
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sailwind
oginome,
And just for the record judging how the U.S runs Medicare for our elderly I'm pretty sure we'll turn out out like Ireland instead of Germany...
A four month "Nightline" investigation into Medicare fraud makes one thing perfectly clear: this is a crime that pays and pays and pays. The federal government admits that a staggering $60 billion is stolen from tax payers through Medicare scams every year.
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sailwind
They control costs through the very ways the article points out. Strange that America should do that first and foremost before anything else, control costs before embarking on your "nirvana" of socialist health care for the U.S.? I think not.
And secondly if socialized medicine has turned out to such a nightmare for your country of Ireland what makes you think the outcome won't be the same in the U.S? Since your willing to put yourself as some sort of all knowing judge as to what is best for America and health care reform in my country what guarantee can you give me that our system will be more like Germany's than like Ireland's is now if we embark on that path?
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Actually I am more dumbfounded that when you have a socialized health care system that has turned out so crappy that your own countrymen would rather emigrant and treat strangers then their own fellow citizens...........That this is still being held up as some sort of "success" and role model system for America to emulate is just..... well in my humble opinion not making a very strong case for it at all.
So No thanks, I think I'd rather get back to what was being proposed before Obama got his Govt mitts into things. Repeal Obama-care and reform our American system this way.
A Real Health-Care Fix Would Save You $7,100
http://www.smartmoney.com/invest/markets/how-much-could-health-care-reform-save-you/
A better group to do the math is the non-partisan National Academy of Sciences. Its Institute of Medicine ran the numbers in September. It found $210 billion waiting to be saved from unnecessary services, like branded drugs used where generics would do. It also found $85 billion in overspending on doctors and hospitals that are overpriced relative to benchmarks. And there was $195 billion in unnecessary insurance administration costs. And a lot more. The total: $810 billion a year in health-care spending that doesn t make us healthier. That s 10 times the savings Congress is arguing over, only delivered every year instead of being spread over a decade. Per household, it s $7,132 a year.
Article goes more in depth but to summarize:
In short, American spends 16 percent of her GDP on health care. France spends about 12 percent. Cut the costs first through implementing what the article lines out to do (and after Obama care is repealed) and get the costs the same as France 12 percent GDP, then since Americans are used to spending 16 percent after we hit the target of 12 percent we can raise it to 14 percent GDP using the two percent in revenue to help the uninsured obtain coverage.
We have not only made insurance more affordable by going after costs first we could then afford to hike it 2 percent to cover for the less fortunate and provide them a subsidy to buy PRIVATE insurance and still save two percent on what we are forking out now which is still................200 BILLION a year in savings. That's money that we could then put toward paying down Obama's deficit and get away from Government run nightmares. That's how you do it the.
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sailwind
Germany's system is in dire straits also with its "free healthcare".
Final approval has been granted by the German parliament to reform the country’s mandatory health insurance scheme. The overhaul of the healthcare system is seen as vital for Germany to stem increasing costs associated with its public healthcare system, which covers more than 72 million insured people in the country. The move by the German government comes at a time when the country, with the largest economy in Europe, struggles to contain raising healthcare costs and seeks to avoid a predicted €11 billion (US$13.2 billion) shortfall in German public healthcare finances, expected to occur in 2011. The German public healthcare system is calculated at being one the most expensive in the world, with the new reform on mandatory health insurance coming into effect in 2011 in a bid to curb the ever growing cost of health costs on public finances.
Your running out of other peoples money quite quick in Europe to keep socialized medicine a success story.
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sailwind
Well next time your back home you can pass that on to your new Pakistani doctor.
The Irish health agency called for help from Pakistani and Indian doctors as local doctors immigrate because of long working hours and poor career prospects, reported the Irish Times.
According to the report, the shortage of junior doctors has become a serious problem in the country.
On a recent trip to India and Pakistan, Irish health officials found more than 420 experienced doctors who, they said, are willing to work in Ireland.
However, the Irish Medical Council said that only 30 of these doctors have applied to register in Ireland
http://tribune.com.pk/story/193351/ireland-looks-to-pakistan-to-help-solve-doctor-shortage/
So you have crappy system that going broke, Doctors that beating feet because they can't stand the working conditions and is now outsourcing your primary care givers to Pakistan and India.
Yet you gripe about the U.S system??????
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sailwind
Ummm...Healthcare isn't free and with Ireland going bankrupt It will soon not even exist as there isn't any money to pay for it. This is the model you want to the U.S to follow?
And second of all and no offense..........73% of your Countryman knows that your current healthcare system is a mess and healthcare costs are unsustainable also.
The link,
http://www.irishtimes.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=yesnopoll&pollid=9813&subsiteid=326
And some comments on the poll,
we are in the middle of the worst recession since 1935 but yet we pay our consultants the highest wages for consultants in the world, i think this answers the question also, if the big players in the HSE didnt fear the unions so much and cut the huge wages of our health services emploeeys insted of closing beds, then the health service in this country would be so much better :) John Mulcahy Ireland
If the private sector, can do a cheaper job than the public sector and with quality. Then there is something seriously wrong with the HSE. Its over-beuracratic, too many overpaid mangers and secretaries at each desk, nurses are still able to make appointments and why do we need secretaries for that? Emmet Murphy Ireland
No. And let me be the first to say it - nurses (those of whom we can speak no evil) are overpaid and underworked. My most recent experience of the public health system was of waiting more than an hour for a glass of water while a gaggle of nurses hung out in the nurses¿ station down the corridor gossiping about x-factor. Like the rest of their public sector cohorts, I think if they worked in a real job they would realise how good they have it. They don¿t even have to make the beds or clean out the bedpans anymore like in the old days ¿ they have underlings to do that for them now. And as for doctors, consultants, porters, etc¿..don¿t get me started. TaxUnit101 Ireland
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sailwind
Your fellow countrymen do not all hold the same views as you do and have been voting by using their feet lately leaving your vaulted Irish health care system and social safety net with a good many heading to that horrid U.S of A.
Irish emigration rose to the highest since the 19th century with an estimated 76,400 people emigrating in the year to April 2011; an increase of 11,100 on the 65,300 recorded in the year to April 2010, according to the Central Statistics Office of Ireland.
The population continues to dwindle as more and more individuals choose to leave the country in search of jobs and steady income. Common emigration destinations were the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia; Australia is experiencing an increased shortage in skilled labourers.
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sailwind
President Obama has done such a rotten job since he took office that even The Daily Kos had to admit it. This is his record he owns it.
Median income has fallen more since recession ended than it did during the recession
by Laura ClawsonFollow for Daily Kos Labor
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/11/1025265/-Median-income-has-fallen-more-since-recession-ended-than-it-did-during-therecession#comments
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Nah....Just the truth
3 p.m.: Rick Santorum holds a town hall at Beaufort Yacht & Sailing Club in Beaufort, S.C.
I guess that was the best place to hold a public meeting.
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sailwind
The article is textbook bias. To wit, it starts off "When Rick Santorum stood in front of voters at a yacht club", a yacht club? Nice lead in to get that "rich fat cat Republican meme going. As pointed out doesn't even mention South Carolina's small population and the most egregious part.
Kedrowski's university recently polled South Carolina Republicans to ask about reducing the deficit by making cuts to government programs: 73% of voters said they weren't willing to have their current Social Security or Medicare benefits reduced to address budget concerns. More than half said they weren't willing to cut defense spending either.
Define more than half? 51% 59% 75%???? If it's 51% or 52% that means it's pretty much a tie and that a huge chunk of those Republicans, that the article is just trying to paint as hypocrites by omitting facts and details are more than willing to consider defense cuts after all, let's say 49% and that is from a population heavily dependent on the military for jobs and income. It isn't as if the L.A Times doesn't know the exact percentage but felt compelled not to publish it and let readers assume it also 73%.........Textbook Bias.
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sailwind
Which means that not only does South Carolina have a small population less than 1/2 of Los Angeles county. 20 percent of the small population is over 65 and collecting Social Security. Which as pointed out you have a small state with 7 military bases and 20 percent of population retired and on Social Security your going to get a higher percentage of federal dollars going to to the State. Your bias article could have saved their readers a lot of trouble and included South Carolina's total population so we could say........."Duh".
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sailwind
Personally, I can see why he decided to go with Mitt as his top moniker.
Laguna,
Your biased LA. Times article omitted a real important fact. South Carolina's population is only 4,561,242. You throw in the seven military bases that the article does mention on top of a very small population and of course they are going to get more federal spending per capita.
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sailwind
Mitt is his given middle name and he prefers to go by it.
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sailwind
Under Obama.........Real median annual household income has dropped 5.1% since the recession ended, more than the 3.2% decline during the recession itself
Familien,
Just for your information: The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has given over 26 Billion dollars to charitable endeavors since its inception.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Number of employees: approximately 980 Asset trust endowment: $33.5 billion Total grant commitments since inception: $26.19 billion Total 2010 grant payments: $2.6 billion*
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sailwind
The number of Americans living in poverty rose to 46.2 million last year, nearly one in six people, according to the US Census Bureau's annual report.
The 2010 data shows the poverty rate at 15.1%, from 14.3% in 2009.
From a BBC article on Obama's time in office.
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sailwind
Not sure where your getting your information but it's totally wrong. Medicaid is the joint federal / state program for providing care for the poor along with:
The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – later known more simply as the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)[1] – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children. The program was designed to cover uninsured children in families with incomes that are modest but too high to qualify for Medicaid.
Consolidated Health Care Centers Program: Health Care, Insured or Not The Consolidated Health Care Centers Program is a federal benefit program providing comprehensive primary and preventive health care and social services to medically unserved and underserved populations. Essential medical services are provided without regard to an individual's ability to pay or health insurance
National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program helps low-income, uninsured, and under-insured women gain access to lifesaving screening programs for early detection of breast cancer and cervical cancer.
Public housing, Foodstamps, Public assistance payments (welfare), Federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Rural Housing Repair Loans and Grants program, Unemployment Compensation , Tax breaks.........The list goes on and on . No offense, but as a non-American you really do not understand that American system. It may look like to an outsider that there is no cohesive one stop fits all safety net, but that is totally wrong.
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