‘Hurry up and die’ Taro Aso, Japan’s Finance Minister
Japan’s Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Taro Aso—age 72—seems to want the public to put him out his senile misery…
Japanese Finance Minister: Government Should Let Old People ‘Hurry Up And Die’
heraldsun.com.au (AFP) | Jan. 21, 2013
Japan’s finance minister Taro Aso said Monday the elderly should be allowed to “hurry up and die” instead of costing the government money for end-of-life medical care.
Aso, who also doubles as deputy prime minister, reportedly said during a meeting of the National Council on Social Security Reforms… “[problems] won’t be solved unless you let them hurry up and die” …and referred to “tube people” when talking of patients who cannot feed themselves.
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Read further about Japan’s greatest douchebag, Taro Aso, in our previous reports:
• Most hated leader in the developed world (3Yen / 2009-02-16)
• ‘GONE’ vs ‘Change’ (3Yen / 2009-03-12)
• Japan’s Mickey Mouse government (3Yen / 2009-04-21)
• ‘SOCK AND AWE’ on Japan’s PM Aso (3Yen / 2009-02-09)
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January 22nd, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Why all the venom for Taro Aso? (What he said was right but just a bit too blunt.)
January 22nd, 2013 at 2:36 pm
He’s a real Aso.
Read:
japanprobe.com/2008/09/22/meet-taro-aso…
January 22nd, 2013 at 6:43 pm
1. Aso is a complete idiot, the result of generations of inbreeding.
2. Aso is right in the sense that many old people are staying in medical facilities without any meaning and purpose. Wife’s great grandmother died at the age of 102 after 2 years of being confined to her bed without any possibility of movement without the ability to communicate besides incoherent sounds. A few years ago she said she doesn’t want to live anymore but no one had the guts to grant her that basic wish and show real respect. The medical center have no interest to shorten the suffering since it’s its source of income and the family afraid to do anything which might be accepted in the wrong way in their town.
There is a problem here and the answers are not simple. Japan will have to deal with a tsunami of such cases in the next 25 years.
January 22nd, 2013 at 11:18 pm
So… as a third-generation politician whose entire life has been paid for by the government, how well do you sleep, Taro?
Actually, I take that back, only the second two-thirds of his life has been paid for by the government. The first third, of course, between his dad’s POW workers and Taro’s own stint at a Sierra Leone diamond mining operation, being paid for by slave labor.
So I’m sure he sleeps just fine.
January 23rd, 2013 at 8:34 pm
Around here, 72’s not that old. I think 70 is the age that Japanese men hit the point of “hell yeah, I’m gonna stop giving a shiat and say whatever I goddamn please. Also, I’m gonna use the hell out of my hazard lights. Just pull around me, motherfarkers.”
Japanese women get to start at age 60.
January 23rd, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Yoko Ono is going to be 80yrs in a couple of weeks—Taro Aso should send her an invite to the Aokigahara Forest.
January 24th, 2013 at 4:03 pm
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February 16th, 2013 at 1:09 pm
Every individual have different cases. Not all were enforced to work as the comfort women. some were kidnapped physically I don’t challenge this. But it is very difficult to keep an employee who do not wish to continue working in the post and any employer would want to avoid that.
Besides comfort station was built usually right next to the garrison.If one of them escapes it could potentially damage the security of the troops,therefore officers were very reluctant to hire such women. People deny this now, but it was not so difficult to hire Asians for Japanese war effort in the 30s and early 40s.
Lee Kwan Yu was working for the listening post of the Imperial Army in Singapore translating BBC. Casino Tycoon of Macau,Stanley Ho (now owns the biggest casino empire in the world) was also working petty job for Japanese military intelligence.
I don’t think there were such difficulties getting enough numbers of Japanese women for the job. The only reason the army made the contract with the recruiters in the colony was because wages were much cheaper there. One of the letter that I mentioned in the blog of yours (and that is used as a proof of official intrusion of the military by the focus groups) is warning for choosing the right recruiters when they make contract because some were notorious kidnappers.
So ,tricked maybe, kidnapped I highly doubt about that in case of Japanese,Taiwanese and Korean comfort women .Don’t know about the Dutch and the Phillipinos and there is a case of using of the Dutch women against their will in Java. The station was closed by the order of the Javan commander shortly and the men in responsible were hanged by the Dutch authority after the war.
There is a long interview of philosopher Tsurumi Shyunsuke by feminist Ueno Chizuko came out 2 years ago called c3a6cb†c2a6c3a4c2ba”b0c3a3c2?c5’c3a9c2?c2bac3a3c2?—c3a3c2?c5b8c3a3”š”šc3a3c2?c2ae .These two are boardmember of Asia Women Foundation of which were established by PM Murayama Tomiichi in the 90s to compensate comfort women.In the book, Tsurumi is confessing his role of maintaining one of the comfort station in Java and recruiting local half caste prostitutes for the station. But like I said challenging the identity of the comfort women require risks and danger of heating up the debate.