Japan To Slash Welfare Benefits In Attempt To Root Out "Comfortably Poor"

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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1130777 Japan 01/29/2013 11:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Japan To Slash Welfare Benefits In Attempt To Root Out "Comfortably Poor" Say what you like about Japan, its never been a place that "coddles" people. You won't find Obamaphones here. [link to www.zerohedge.com] As Japan Times reports, "welfare benefits will be slashed by ¥74 billion over a three-year period starting from fiscal 2013, after a government panel found that some people are making more on the dole than the average low-income person who is not spends on living costs, it was learned Sunday." We await with eager amusement as this attempt to impose austerity on the comfortably poor takes place in the US next. Considering there was nearly a revolution in California a few weeks back when EBT cards malfunctioned for a few brief hours, the outcome of a comparable belt-tightening in the US would have truly hilarious, not to mention lethal, consequences.
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1130777 Japan 01/29/2013 11:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Japan To Slash Welfare Benefits In Attempt To Root Out "Comfortably Poor" Japan's Deputy Prime Minister Has A Modest Proposal For The Elderly: "Hurry Up And Die" ...Earlier today, Taro Aso, 72 years young, and the deputy PM of the man set to unleash Abenomics on Japan (for the second time, only this time it will be different), suggested that the elderly in Japan should just "hurry up and die."...Describing patients with serious illnesses as "tube persons", Aso said they should be allowed to die quickly if they wanted to, Kyodo News reported. "Heaven forbid I should be kept alive if I want to die. You cannot sleep well when you think it's all paid by the government. This won't be solved unless you let them hurry up and die." [link to www.zerohedge.com]
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