tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post4070312181902067779..comments2024-03-14T07:32:30.141+09:00Comments on Marketing Japan: Japanese Gov't Plans to Double Sales Tax - Will it Matter? To You & Me, Yes! To the National Debt? No!mike in tokyo rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977446676243085409noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-90756301755700079302012-02-20T06:36:33.469+09:002012-02-20T06:36:33.469+09:00Geeze, I like Marc Faber, but this comment makes m...Geeze, I like Marc Faber, but this comment makes me wonder: <br /><br />19 February, 2012<br />Japanese Economy: They Have Deleveraged And The Household Sector Is In Good Shpae<br />I think the Japanese economy isn't in such a bad shape. They have deleveraged and the household sector is in pretty good shape. - in CNBC<br /><br />http://marcfaberblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/japanese-economy-they-have-deleveraged.html<br /><br />- clarkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-71512635063820390262012-02-20T06:31:23.560+09:002012-02-20T06:31:23.560+09:00Thank you for answering my question.
Interesting c...Thank you for answering my question.<br />Interesting contrast.<br /><br />Victoria Gates wrote, "I guess most countries are having issues with national spending and taxes right now. Its rather frustrating because unless you have contacts and connections your politicians ignore you and continue with the pandering."<br /><br />Reminds me of this bit:<br /><br />"... understanding China's role within the larger realm of Anglosphere directed history is very important. The Western rulers of this gloomy globe know full well that China's economy is bound to implode sooner or later.<br /><br />If the top Chinese are actually in league with Western powers that be, we should begin to see a kind of coordinated take-down of the world's economy. In fact, absent China (arguably), this is well on its way. One can argue as to whether it is a purposeful collapse or not but for me the arguing is done.<br /><br />Once the Chinese economy collapses – and inevitably it must sooner or later – the elites may wish to take the next step toward building a fully integrated global government. This may well include a one-world currency, central bank and political and military structure."...<br /><br />http://thedailybell.com/3626/Anthony-Wile-Will-Chinese-and-Western-Elites-Bring-Down-the-World<br /><br />Victoria, hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-39650239591154933152012-02-20T04:01:57.371+09:002012-02-20T04:01:57.371+09:00Great post. I stumbled here after looking up some ...Great post. I stumbled here after looking up some Japanese business facts for my International Marketing course in college. The comment about Japanese debt being compared to a foreign mountain cracked me up. As an American I can say yes... yes our government is a load of crap and I don't watch the news its all about celebrities and horrific murders with anything important shoved aside and covered with so much muck you cant tell whats fact or fiction.<br /><br />I guess most countries are having issues with national spending and taxes right now. Its rather frustrating because unless you have contacts and connections your politicians ignore you and continue with the pandering. I simply continue my studies and hope for the best despite all this nonsense politically.Victoria Gateshttp://www.mobilewithsms.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-12815159006690384182012-02-19T08:24:11.046+09:002012-02-19T08:24:11.046+09:00Clark,
About drug testing, they don't do that ...Clark,<br />About drug testing, they don't do that here... It's hard to explain but even the idea that people would do drugs at work is so foreign for the average Japanese that it sounds like something from another planet (or the USA)... Oh, sure, in some occupations, speed, for example, isn't considered so unusual... Contradiction? Nope. In WWII and after the war, speed was a big problem because people worked 26 hour days... But that's not the case anymore. This is a long subject and I could write an entire book about it.mike in tokyo rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04977446676243085409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-33343149237911000372012-02-19T06:25:36.206+09:002012-02-19T06:25:36.206+09:00... And don't even get me started on requiring...... And don't even get me started on requiring employees to wear hard hats. Brain boiling, hair loss causing, eye sight limiting contraptions.<br /><br />- clarkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-22955583460620458832012-02-19T06:21:58.358+09:002012-02-19T06:21:58.358+09:00Heh, someday soon the robots will be better at pro...Heh, someday soon the robots will be better at proving they're human than the humans.<br /><br />Also, I have this I wanted to present, it's kind of off topic, but not really, it's about government causing lower productivity and marketing themselves as "the good guys" when it seems they are not.<br /><br />I posted this at The Beacon, after that I wondered if Japan has massive drug testing of employees? Is it the same over there, is it the same the world over?<br /><br />Here's what I wrote, maybe you'll find it interesting?:<br /> <br />When the drug war was heating up in the 1980′s the justification businesses used for drug testing employees was too many sick days, employee theft and injuries.<br /><br />What I wonder is, since that time have any of these numbers decreased? [Kind of like the sales tax in Japan too, huh]<br /><br />If not, unless there is profit to be made from administering drug tests (does the government reimburse businesses in excess of cost?) what is the reasoning used for continuing them? Is it because insurance is denied for companies otherwise? What a racket that is.<br /><br />It’s quite sickening how some organizations use the threat of a drug test whenever employee performance is low or an error is made, not to mention the barrier drug testing creates which increases the odds a Person trying to improve themselves cannot get even a simple low rung job like a fry cook to lift themselves up by the bootstraps. In that manner, drug testing works like welfare to keep individuals out of the workplace and in poverty.<br /><br />I imagine employee injuries have gone down since the 1970′s or 1980′s due to improvements in safety devices and processes – and from the replacement of men by women who are (I think) less likely to take risks or horseplay – instead of drug testing employees ...but the other categories, sick days and employee theft, I’d bet those numbers are the same or higher.<br /><br />- clarkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-23777143144270167882012-02-18T21:40:53.017+09:002012-02-18T21:40:53.017+09:00Clark, everybody,
Yeah, I hate the part where we ...Clark, everybody, <br />Yeah, I hate the part where we have to read the words in order to comment. I try to turn it off, but I can't figure out how to do it...mike in tokyo rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04977446676243085409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-85842487756050824102012-02-18T20:27:08.016+09:002012-02-18T20:27:08.016+09:00Thanks for the plug, Mike, and thanks, too, to Ano...Thanks for the plug, Mike, and thanks, too, to <a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/335741-checkmate-for-japanese-sovereign-debt" rel="nofollow">Anonymous @ 12:15</a> whose link is very interesting. Especially this part: "As you can also see from this graph, total debt service payments are steadily growing (blue line) and government revenues are steadily decreasing (red line), for two decades" FOR TWO DECADES, i.e. from 1992, tax revenues have been decreasing. But don't worry, just vote for Mike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-67332893074339086142012-02-18T16:18:50.454+09:002012-02-18T16:18:50.454+09:00Isn't it the case that the only way to increas...Isn't it the case that the only way to increase the monetary base in a fractional reserve scheme, is to go into more debt (print more money)? Isn't that the job of most central banks? <br /><br />Isn't it the case that once a person or nation is in debt, the creditor effectivly owns them? Didn't Clinton find this out after he became president? <br /><br />There was a quote attributed to him, which said, that if he (Clinton) could do it all over again, he would become a bond-trader instead of a president, because that is where the real power lies...<br /><br />The JPG government needs to do something to appease the creditors, the bond traders, that they will be paid back. Look at what the IMF & World Bank have done to “Third World” countries. Imagine a similar situation with Japan.Mr. Nobodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-25068061921475494752012-02-18T15:27:57.381+09:002012-02-18T15:27:57.381+09:00500% of GDP, eh?
So much for all those who say no ...500% of GDP, eh?<br />So much for all those who say no nation makes it past ~120% of GDP.<br /><br />Man, and this Blogger deal with the two words to prove I'm not a robot, yeesh, more than half the time on some websites I cannot read these words, takes me like 3 trys to post. Just something.<br /><br />- clarkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-39071453918817176942012-02-18T12:15:55.037+09:002012-02-18T12:15:55.037+09:00http://seekingalpha.com/article/335741-checkmate-f...http://seekingalpha.com/article/335741-checkmate-for-japanese-sovereign-debtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com