[4rcane]

i glanced at wiki and the party thats going to win sounds like a left wing party, but the current party in power is a socialist party too. Remember its the current party thats been in power for these past decades that were in favor of bailouts, which has lead to decades of malaise

[sushiman]

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[Brugmansian]

New York Times, of all places, has an article on how the Japanese bailouts failed, how the people view them as a waste and a power grab by the Liberal Democratic Party and how Geithner thinks Japan didn't spend enough:

Japan's Big-Works Stimilus

I can't figure out Mr. Nobel Prize Krugman and Timmy Turbo Tax when they propose Japan as a model. When Japan spent trillions and run up huge deficits, it had a thriving export business. A positive balance of trade. We don't. Japan didn't have to sell treasuries to buy oil. Japan bought oil, US Treasuries and whatever else it wanted. All that never seems to factor into their rhetoric. They act as if these facts do not exist.