Turning Japanese - Is the US Creating Its Own Lost Decade?

[happyfunnyfoo]

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[felpaluche]

It was misleading. I don't buy all the points.

[kayumochi]

@force3264 - you have missed my point: the idea that Japan has failed, or has had a lost decade simply isn't true.

[deadbirdflyinghome]

Why does America panic when some else is going to have a bigger economy? Will their mortality rate drop? Will their country implode? Will the ground swallow them? How come other countries like Australia, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc... don't care who's economy is bigger? Why is everything a pissing contest...?

[maxbaby29]

this video is 2 republican 4 me.... smh

[BrettDunbar]

@maxbaby29 I think you mean, too reasonable for you.

[bmc868]

4. Sending Lady Gaga on tour in China. Maybe they will stop working 25 hours a day.

[kayumochi]

Agreed lordblazer. In the last 25 years America has gone from 12% of the population owning 30% of the wealth to 1% owning 40%. We are fucked as a country. Japan and other social democracies are not.

[force3264]

@kayumochi Japan and other social democracies are fucked too. Japan having an unemployment average of 3% is fudged. It's more like 13% like US official unemployment 9% but its over 20%. unemployment in japan is going up and a lost decade would make things worse

[kayumochi]

During Japan's "Lost Decade(s)" Japan's unemployment has averaged 3%, all its citizens have had health care coverage and its currency has appreciated. Can we please have our own lost decade? 

[lordblazer]

@kayumochi

Japan is a social democracy and they cherish it on all political spectrums of having those things. The US is different. We have a lot of free market fundamentalist who are against universal healthcare and social welfare programs in general. IF we had a lost decade these guys would get their way, and we would be fucked as a country.

[lvll138inrs]

why would america allow japan to come close to over-taking them? don't americans care that they need to rule the world with an iron fist?

[lordblazer]

@lvll138inrs

doesn't matter China outpaced Japan. Japan is #3 and might be overtaken by Germany soon due to this crisis.

[Traces1000]

american are racist fuckers

[BrettDunbar]

@Traces1000 hahahhahaha u mad?

[Darusdei]

cut taxes and cut spending. It's starting to sound like a stupid chant...

so what is the damn spending you want to cut? military? ofcourse not! that would make us weaker! etc etc etc...

[PeterSpicker]

The easiest way to learn Japanese. Many samples and lessons, check the video out - youtube.com/watch?v=wfseANZtMN­g

[wjwildcat]

US = country of assholes i hope you get nuked 4 times in the future

[asakaolol]

AMERICANS cannot refrain from spending money for such precious staffs that makes them looks cool, which "MADE THEM LOOKED COOLEST IN THE WORLDS + THE MILLION DOLLAR MOVIES THEY RELEASE ALL OVER THE WORLD.

THEY FEEL THEY OWN EVERYTHING,STEREOTYPES LIFES OF PEOPLES in other COUNTRIES SUCH AS ASIAN, JUST ON THE WAY THEY WEAR A DRESS, THE SIZE OF THEIR COCKS,

[splattermark]

@asakaolol You're right, stereotyping is bad. Of course, stereotyping Americans isn't actually stereotyping, because it's what YOU believe, right? Hypocrite.

[asakaolol]

@splattermark It's proven asshole,

(thought it's kind of offensive)

i may say that 90% of your population are stereotypes,

"STEREOTYPE" type of people,

[splattermark]

@asakaolol I honestly cannot reply to this, because it's pretty much gibberish. Sorry. I seriously just can't tell what it is you're trying to say.

[afewminutesforyou]

Japanese lost decade was the result of trade pressure from the U.S. and Europe which forced the Japanese to raise the value of the yen relative to their currencies, and to rely more on its domestic consumption by lowering interest rates, which created a property and stock market bubble which eventually busted. If we would live in a completely capitalist, non interventionist world, perhaps the Japanese would really have ruled over the world.

[eatandtravel]

The defalation that occurred in Japan in the 1990s to 2000s was caused by decreased spending by the Japanese baby boomers.

Japan's exports were ripping before the 2008.

[teemu21]

@afewminutesforyou Ehh... artificially undermining your own currency for increase your exports is form of interventionism, just like China's undermining of their currency is interventionism.

[MysticArksRevenge]

I guess this is probably the reason the American DOES NOT want the Japanese to do videogames based off of American , Canadian European and Australian cartoon, movie, toy and comic book franchises, nowadays! :(

[ab1tchslap]

I wonder why they still memorize all those symbols. They should use an alphabet.

[paul19781105]

Because they have many words that are spelled and sound the same, but with different meanings.

[jeyzi]

Problem solved. Two alphabets already exist in Japanese, in addition to all the Kanji symbols.

[halezeon]

they have an alphabet <,<

[navtel]

with the ridiculous way obama and bush before him have been throwing money at the problem there seems to be a lack of common sense.. obama is just more of the same.. there is going to be change alright, a change for the worse.

[paul19781105]

waaaah waaaah waaaaaaaaaaah (horn)

How long he been in office? Obviously you didnt listen to his victory speech. He never said this will be a quick fix. He said it will be a long road. He even said it may not happen in his term. But what everyone seems to forget is that he said he needs EVERYBODY to help too. So stop sittin on your ass with your hand out like a big baby and unbutton your lip!

[UsualMike]

He has completely misdiagnosed the problem. In the opening part of this video, he is claiming that Japan's lost decade resulted from a lack of swift and large enough action. Yet there is a reason it was called the lost DECADE. Japan followed exactly the same failed policies the US is promoting now, but repeated them several times over. There is no reason the economy should take 4-5 years to rebound, unless foolish government policies get in the way. Obama can't have any more of my money.

[paul19781105]

Japan's lost decade was a result of letting the yakuza do what they wanted. The yakuza ran Japan down. They made their money while the making was good and the government let them do it much like Bush with Enron and all these other crooked mega businesses. And no matter what country, State or city you live in, or whoever is president, general, prime minister or king, the government will always get their money. They've been doing it for centuries.

[loszhor]

Wow, eerie.

[goduk321]

hey! hiragana3 kenkajoto fuck u jap

[kenkajoto]

I'm American douche bag! I was politely explaining to hiragana3 about how he is a tool. He said that Americans and other alphabet users are inherently slower than Japanese users making alphabet users 3 times as inefficient and thus ruining our economies. He's just another Japanese-supremacist retard.

Let's hope the great O doesn't "go Japanese"

[hiragana3]

何故日本人がラテン文字を記号のようにつかい文章として覚えない­かというと日本文字の方が文字数が少なくて意味がわかるからです­。これにより経済スピードが上がる。たとえば「shi」=「し」­、「ka」=「か」のように一文字で表すことができる。ようはラ­テン文字圏は日本人の２倍以上の文字を常に打ち込んで時間を労費­してるということです。

[sudnem]

なぜあなたはナンセンス投稿は何ですか？

[kenkajoto]

「し」という文字はキーボードで s+h+i+space で入力する。英語：3文字 vs 日本語:4文字

残念ながらパソコンはアメリカで発明されたのでベースは英語にな­っている（C言語など。。。）ため、日本語に対応するためにOS­上のプログラムが必要である。

言語の特徴の相違よりも税策、輸出輸入、失業率などの根本的な要­素が経済に影響している。

[hiragana3]

いちいちラテン文字を変換して打ってるのですか？今小学校ではひ­らがな打ちで習いますよ。それとスペースって何ですか？エンター­ならラテン文字打ちでは使いますが。。

[paul19781105]

おい。ヒラガナ３くん。うらさい！家へ行く！バカやろ！！！

[VonHOG]

We most certainly are turning Japanese.

[nesterhaus]

With Barry in charge it is only a matter of time for his foreign invader self to destroy whatever he possibly can-

[mojoabojo]

can you lower taxes for everyone?

I think that's idiotic, the notion that we can do that.

How would letting big corporations go bankrupt help economic sectors?

[MagnusIan]

"How would letting big corporations go bankrupt help economic sectors?"

It would help by letting dying businesses do what they should do (file for bankruptcy). But by bailing out big business we prop-up companies which have poor business practices that only put themselves deeper in the red. By "saving" big business, we only drag every taxpayer into more and more debt & slow ecomonic progress in the long run.

You wouldn't give a horse four prosthetic limbs and expect it to win, would you?

[mojoabojo]

Yes but how would this slow economic progress? What would letting businesses go out of business do to help the economy. Scare stock holders? Make the unemployment rate go up?

"You wouldn't give a horse four prosthetic limbs and expect it to win, would you?"

No but that's an in-adequate analogy

[dhtpt]

"how would letting big corporations go bankrupt help economic sectors?"

I'll use a quotes from Nassim Taleb, (author of Black Swan), explain it: "Capitalism is about failing early, not having some government bail you out so when you do fail you fail big."

another one, "an incentive without a consequence(risk) is a free option"

It wasn't greed that got us in this mess, it was free options, it wasn't capitalism that failed it was the socialization of loses that dug our grave.

[mojoabojo]

dhtpt, you just told me that what we are doing goes against capitalism, not how it would better the economy

[dhtpt]

mojoabojo, yes I did imply that what we are doing goes against capitalism, but my last comment wasn't meant to explain how to make the economy better but to explain how not to make it worse.

[Joe402]

Only way to fix this is to nationalize everything and jail all CEOs.

[Amy31415]

Isn't it already too late?

[rebelstang]

Easy 5.

So True & So Familier!

The Empire's Dying!

The Republic, All but Lost!

Let d.c.& wallst. fend for it'self!

SECESSION! It's The Right Thing To Do!

GOD BLESS, OUR TROOPS

& ALL TRUE PATRIOTS!

Deo Vindice!

[america4hemp]

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[JRLLUnd]

Thank you.

[takerdust]

We can't let the zombie businesses go bankrupt.

What about all the poor unions???

boohoo

[Shadyhunter04]

Hah! Not boldly or swiftly enough!?

It's those very interventionist actions that caused and mantained their economy in the hole for so long!

[bittergunowner12]

They didn't act boldly or swiftly enough? They spent more the we have so far and ended in a rut!

[TehBANN3D]

GIRUGAMESH!

[proithero]

Japanification sums it up

[truthsabre7]

Obama the liar. Lets see how well blacks have governed.countries in Africa ....Sudan, Congo, S.Africa, Zimbawie, Somalia, Angola, and Uganda. Africa with all their wealth still have people starving, murdered, and property confiscated.

[isin17123]

Ah, History, it's great to see your again.

[GiovannaNYC]

Cause & Effect, Cause & Effect. Blah, blah, blah!

If we are to learn history to keep from repeating it, why do we keep repeating it?

[FCKEVRY1]

Because the history we're taught is the history America has written to teach us. It's a giant crock of shit and it's taught SO POORLY that we don't even know what can repeat that can be so bad.

[GiovannaNYC]

I know I was graded by accepting or not accepting the teachers point of view. As an independent thinker my GPA was basically screwed unless I played the liberal game. I played along I'm not that stupid.

[icemilitia]

Human's are stubborn

[cgraham1930]

no no no. don't pay any attention to this "history" you speak of. because it NEVER repeats itself.  never. we should all ignore these perfect models, because this is america, and that will never happen to us!

[FCKEVRY1]

You have nothing to worry about. Nobody's paying any attention...THIS IS AMERICA!!!! We don't need to "pay attention." That's funny, telling Americans not to pay attention. That's the same as telling Britany Spears to fuck everyone she meets. YOU CAN'T STOP IT!!!

[isin17123]

LOL ooops my mistake, cgraham, you're right. We are totally immune to whatever happened in the past. With our "Yes We Can" attitude we will chant our way out of this debt.

Seriously, why can't people ever see these things coming? Well, not ReasonTV and many others, I don't mean them. But it's always the people in power that need a history lesson it seems.

[fuzzycabin]

It`s funny, nowadays people are concerned that China is going to take over the worlds economy. Will China become the largest economy on the planet, or will they crash and burn like Japan did?

[FCKEVRY1]

I don't think China is a crash and burn kind of state. They're tough motherfuckers! You ever see the shit they eat and then survive?!?!? In 50 years, the whole world will be speaking Chinese.

[Vehement524]

Hmm, what can we do to save us from failure? I know! We'll do what all failures have done before us! It's gotta work eventually, right?

Isn't that the definition of maddness?

[MagnusIan]

Obama and all his spending goons are complete fuckheads who should be thrown out of Washington immediately. Then again, so should these big government republicans who are about as fiscally conservative as a teen punk with a stolen credit card. D.C. won't learn from Japan's mistakes. The government doesn't LEARN, it will only get worse and worse. Hey Obama, don't want a depression? THEN DON'T DRAG US EVEN FURTHER INTO DEBT YOU SOCIALIST NIMROD!

[Zapparulez1978]

Keep in mind that Obama only slightly doubled the amount of money spent on bailouts as did Bush. We forget that it is a one party system we are fighting here.

[MagnusIan]

I know, that's why I mentioned big government republicans (these neocon idiots like Bush & the majority of republicans these days). I could tell my mother (being the hard-nosed, W.-loving republican) that Bush in fact increased the size of government, increased government spending, disregarded the Constitution, and passed the first bailout. But she just sticks her fingers in her ears and says "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU! IT'S THOSE EVIL, SATAN-WORSHIPPING DEMOCRATS WHO SHOULD BE DISLIKED!"

ugh

[libertyfizz]

Magnuslan so right you are and it is just so frustrating how stubborn and ignorant people can be. It isn't Democrat vs Republican it is the Government vs You the sooner people realize this fact then and only then will real change be possible.

[MagnusIan]

I think sayfuckalot put it best by saying "The federal government fucking HATES you!" & "Democrats & republicans only work TOGETHER to fuck us over."

[Apptendo]

This is why we need to stop saying DESU, DESU , DESU so much.

[mammuru]

Im just happy people arent saying "change" in japanese. Im perfectly fine with desu :)

[Shadyhunter04]

です！

[abarzilai664]

There'll definatly be a lost decade, but the dems have a plan-CULTURE WARS.

[PatriotsRepublic]

Well, the problem with that plan is that the other side is armed with more than lawsuits and lawyers... push us hard enough and they'll get a shooting war. Lets see them explain that.... yeah, I know... it's the right wing extremists, all 50 to 90 million of us... and we're armed to the teeth.

[HiFiSmith]

Obama promised, "where gov't doesn't work, programs will end." It's obvious he meant, "where gov't doesn't work, we'll make it bigger".

[StuartGalore]

I like these vids, and I love Nick's hair.

[98nafets]

I remember Obama saying that Japan suffered because they didn't do enough to bailout these institutions. When will Liberals learn how the economy works.

[Hunterkirk]

Spending a always the solution for a Democrat, so is bigger government and more programs.

[libertyfizz]

Spending always the solution for a Republican, so is bigger government and more military programs. When will fake conservatives like the NeoCons ever learn how the economy works. (TARP passed and signed by Bush. And then there are the trillions being lost on the occupation of the Middle East.)