JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥10,000 ~ ¥15,000 / Day Depending on how many days a week are worked
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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skipthesong
elbuda, you didn't read the bill did you? And if you are expecting everything stamped medical, why do you support the fact that foreign firms get peddle their medical devices in the US while US companies have to NOW pay a higher tax?
Easy for rich, white Republicans to play with our tax dollars, they have the best health care system in the world!" I'll go with you on the rich and white, but least you not forget dems are on that same system and that is in fact NOT the system we are paying into. They themselves won't move over to it. Maybe Dennis Kucinich will, but I doubt anyone else would.
Face it, repubs played us before and dems are playing us now.
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skipthesong
If there isn't going to be any sort of personal responsibility rules in place, this thing will surely fail. They are already pushing to have abortions (that is a personal responsibility last I checked), we've got people feeding kids complete junk, we've still got a lot of smokers and drinkers, and half the population are junkies... And people ask why am I a crude person.
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skipthesong
So why the hell are they building up their navy and making stealth fighter jets if they don’t plan to challenge US hegemony? Naaaaah… it will never happen." IMHO, China is capable of really hurting the US, especially on the ground should it come down to that.... remember, fear works and you/we have a habit of respecting those who we fear.
Posted in: Obama, Hu spar over human rights, hail economic ties
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skipthesong
Zenny 11, I wish I had your confidence but I don't... and its not just insurance that is going to cost. I just told everyone what's happening at the medical device level, then there's the unionization of health care workers. Those low cost and free clinics are going to hve a lot of regs placed against them adn they are virtually going to have to close.
Posted in: U.S. House votes to repeal Obama's health care law
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skipthesong
I'm telling you, let this repeal go through see really who's for it and against it. Just heard there is like two or three dems who may cross over. We really should find out, for once, what is really in the health care legislation. If you look above, "The healthcare reform law is not even fully applied yet (2014). It is the fault of the insurance companies that keep rising the premiums." Is a point blank reason why people need for it to be opened up. Clearly, the poster lacks basic understand on how insurance works. Least we not forget, it was passed behind closed doors and that Nancy Pelosi ranted that once its passed you'll know what's in it, yet most health care workers still can't even give you answer. IMO, a nationalized health care is not going to work with private insurance!
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skipthesong
sushi, did you just gaf my question? I asked you if Bush had given Hu such an elaborate welcome, would the then dem controlled congress and senate have clapped as much as they are now?
TKOID: Interesting conclusion that shows very little grasp of the realities of modern China. Sure, urban and industrial China is moving, making money etc... " I firmly believe everyone on this board has traveled to China a few times and are fully aware of its problems and fully understand that at least half the fear mongering is unwarranted. But, they are moving unlike they have ever. They are moving a lot faster than Japan at least.
But did you know that most Chinese still live in conditions unchanged since Mao?" yes, I know. Or that labor and political unrest is a growing problem there?" Yes, fully aware
Or that repression, captial punishiment for a wide range of crimes and the suppression of thought are still the standard?" why put repression in the same sentence of capital punishment? I personally feel they deserve praise in many areas of CP
I am not bashing China any more than I would be critical of any country that violates human rights."\ Then you should welcome ALL criticism not just selective
I am simply saying that we may well be building a monster by not tying human rights revisions and economic benefits together." That monster was built a long time ago. All we can do now is deal with it whether you like it or not. Look how they act: if we were to say boycott them in anyway, they'd come out with some harsh words.
We risk creating a wealthy repressive state that may eventually try to extend that repression outwardly." Widely known and that's not limited to China.
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skipthesong
cleo: I know about the earnings, but I think you are incorrect on the location...
Being self-employed and living in an area with a high oldies population, I'm paying through the nose." now that is a very true statement and one reason not to like The national health care in the US as it is going to hurt people who are self employed and as I am sure you are well aware, people are already paying more for their insurance. To force someone to pay into to something is not good. A self employed person may want to take a certain risk and forego buying int on insurance, even for a short bit, but now won't be able to even take a calculated risk.
Moderator: Readers, please note that Japan's health care system is not relevant to this discussion. Please stay on topic.
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skipthesong
timtak: you raise a good question. But one of the problems I hear is that the US's system is being compared to other countries system which is not good. As you are aware, prices change from state to state on everything where as in Japan, from Hokaido to Kyushuu prices don't. So, being against a national system in the US is a good thing IMO
I don't know what the repubs are proposing, but if you recall, "you'll know what's in it once its past" well, our company get get hardly anything sold at the moment and our prices are now almost twice that of foreign companies' products forcing the makers of the products we push to move factories outside the US - thus one area where job killing is not a wrong term.
doctors are the people with the key to the antibiotics" Doctors are also a sales, research and marketing for the pharmaceutic companies too... a doctor in Japan is forced to give you xyz while ABC is clearly a better option and more cost effective. Docs in the US have more options.
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skipthesong
taj: it is bureaucratic and mostly due to government regs. For example, the "being able to use insurance across state lines" is a government trap and to be simple in the short, its mostly due to who gets to keep the taxes. So, if you live in say NJ but a better doctor and cheaper clinic is in NYC 10 mins over the bridge/tunnel, you most likely won't be able to use it. As for pre-existing conditions, hey, even the Japanese insurance, the UK insurance, the Canadian insurance won't roll you over if you are not a citizen but on a work visa or recent immigrant. Procurement: this is a very big problem. I can not sell a scanner in Fla for the same price I can sell it in Iowa; but an overseas company can have a flat price. If you are poor in the US, there has always been medicaid and in many states, such as Tenn. there have been free clinic which were funded through church charities and facing a gov regulation to be shut down.
There are a lot of good reasons to at the very least look what was put through and perhaps start over. Personally, I can't see why a person from Tenn should have to pay the same as someone in Cali, which is what it is looking like will happen.
For the US, a nationalized health care NO, for a state health care Yes, like Mass, Tenn, Cali, Hw
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skipthesong
While the repeal isn't going to go anywhere, all should welcome the discussion. There are a lot of socialistic and job killing elements to it. Why do so many support the idea that foreign medical device makers can enter the market, while my company has to pay taxes and high health care costs thus making our products cheaper? Why do you support the idea that several large companies and large unions get a free pass? Why should we simply hand over business the the "evil" insurance companies guaranteed business? Why should I pay for a full medical insurance when my wife, a doctor can take care of almost every ailment I may have and anything on the low end, including dental up to root canal can be handled by me? A person at the age of 26 is NOT A KID! And why should those of us in Japan while already FORCED to have med insurance have to buy US Medical insurance?
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skipthesong
despite the regular-as-clockwork anti-China venom that emanates from the U.S. Congress." Yo Sushi, can you elaborate on that last sentence?
You mean to tell me, had Bush, under the recently Dem controlled congress that just left like two weeks ago, would have been commended for having such a lavish ceremony for China?
For those bashing China, you gotta admit, they got their country moving.
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skipthesong
“Amending the Act of Succession is a complex and difficult matter that requires careful and thoughtful consideration,”"
They have a Queen.... how the heck does this rule even stay in place?
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skipthesong
of all things to argue about!
Posted in: U.S. Congress tones down the rhetoric after shootings
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skipthesong
All of these bastards, NRA etc..have lots and lots of BLOOD on their hands!" el: diablo!, just who's hurting our communities? I highly doubt any one of the perpetrators in my above post were NRA members, much less legalized gun owners.
Here's something, and as cleo points out, "there are far too many Loughners" I was just watching American Gangster last night and I thought what is the reason that this film is so liked? Was it the fall of a bad man (he certainly was not portrayed as one), was it about the cop who took him down? What is that everyone liked about it? It was about the power of being a gangster! Gangsters don't care about the law and Mexico is proof of that.
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skipthesong
smitty: " I honestly believed that some day the United States would grow up, but it seems not only do they NOT learn from their idiocy" You know, you're right and its that immaturity that keeps me worried enough to keep a gun around to protect me from the idiots. Get rid of the idiots, I'll get rid of my guns. Thanks for agreeing with me of sorts.
And far too many weapons that they can easily get heir hands on." And I could easily roll right down to Yokosuka and buy chucks, throwing stars, knives, swords, stabbing pins, choke ropes and I can do that too in most cities across the US.
None of the over educated here has offered any logical reason why I should feel safe by guns being completely banned.
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skipthesong
Many communities have deleted large parts of their police forces = crime is on the rise and people are buying guns." My family's been a victim to two people getting guns illegally and those two are now well out of jail. I've seen people shot and killed, by punks with guns illegally obtained in just two short years. I've been held up in Newark, car jacked in Philly, and my mom's house back in Miami has been robbed three times. You figure out a way to prevent the above from happening and find a way to give the common person a sense of safety and I will invite you to my house and we can watch me melt my guns and I will even help you bring down the NRA. Until then, you are really focusing on the wrong group.
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skipthesong
The former, obviously." Well, I don't know, you guys scare me sometimes. Oh, and I'm sure it wasn't a tea partier nor a non-white. We just aren't into things like that.
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skipthesong
we had a standing rule that the kids could not go play at any house that had firearms" I can completely understand that, I had that rule as a kid. However, until you guys come up with a valid idea of lowering crime, doing your best to guarantee that I would never be a victim of a gun crime from someone who has one after fire arms are made illegal, if you please don't mind, I'm gonna protect myself even if I have to make one by hand.
Now, back to the topic, guys, I've seen more than a few dead kids and parts being pulled. Its sad when you see parents go through this and its really hard for the staff to ask the parents for these parts just as their kid has died.
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skipthesong
Agreed. Hotness is way more important to American voters than politics." Well, Obama was voted a lot on looks. Face that fact and hotness makes a lot more sense to me these days than politics. I mean, if I ran, my good looks would propel me. We are talking about a society that is glued to the TV 100 fold for American Idol than voting for the president. Video killed the radio star but also killed the good leaders too.
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skipthesong
I thought blood libel was a Sidney Sheldon book. Palin is a good looking Canadian and even as a vegetarian, I think her hunting from a plane is kind of sexy.
She's not gonna run Sushi, but I think if you look at her base with your eyes open and then switch back to whats on the progressive side, you'll see a lot more hot ladies on the TP side and that is what she brings to the table.
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