Friday, December 4, 2009

The LDP Acting Like Spoiled Children

Funny thing about elections people tend to vote in them and not always in the way one would like. On 30 August of this year Japan held its first general election in four years. After more than five decades in power the Liberal Democratic Party lost in a huge landslide victory for the Democratic Party of Japan.
It was an historic event as this would be the first time a true opposition party would take power in Japan with a clear majority in the Diet. Elections as Americans say have consequences one day your party controls government and the next day it does not that's how politics works.

For the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan losing its grip on power has been a burden they are unable to deal with or comprehend. Instead of acting like an opposition party which they now are they have acted like spoiled children who have decided to take their ball and go home. Yet their failures fall squarely on their shoulders. Japan Post Privatization: Which has led to nothing but problems from the closing of post offices in rural areas to their attempt to sell holdings at less than market value in an attempt to enrich directors and the companies they were doing business with. Passing of the Temporary Worker Dispatch law: Which allowed Japanese corporations to hire thousands of workers on short term contracts thus avoiding having to give them all the benefits that would be afforded those with full time status along with making it quite easy to fire them. Which happened after the financial crisis last year leaving literally hundreds of thousands out of a job. National Pension Plan: Because of poor or shoddy record keeping 300.00 people in Japan had no actual records of their having paid into the system because they were either lost, erased or thrown away. Those are just some of their recent failures.
Yet, these fools can't understand why they are no longer in power and no one will listen to them.

Given 5 decades of chances the Japanese voter finally threw the bums out just what they deserved. So now they are boycotting the current Diet session. Please don't stop the country can't handle any more of your stupidity or disastrous decision and policy making.

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