(From a tunnel to above the Tokyo Bay...; Click to enlarge!)"Judgment Must Begin at the House of God"
(Japan's Politics and New Economics)
I had a bad dream last night, since I took on a few bad guys with my weapons in it.
It has nothing to do with a late-night TV news program, since it was excellent as usual.
It might rather imply that I have wrong forecasts on some issues.
For example, I expect that the 2016 Olympics will be held in Tokyo; and Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso will be soon replaced by opposition leader Mr. Ichiro Ozawa after the coming general election.
One or two of these two expectations might be wrong.
The 2016 Olympics might be held in Rio de Janeiro; and Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso might win against opposition leader Mr. Ichiro Ozawa in the coming general election.
As for the 2016 Olympic Games, it might be rather better if it should not be held in Tokyo, since we will not be annoyed by a possibility of a great earthquake to hit Japan as was the case of China in 2008.
However, as the general election of the Lower House of Japan’s Diet is to be held by this September, the prediction of the results of the elections is imminently critical.
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An official secretary of opposition leader Mr. Ichiro Ozawa was arrested and indicted in March for violation of the Political Funding Regulation Law.
It is because Mr. Ichiro Ozawa received big money for many years from a construction company through an illegal channel. Through both illegal and legal channels, Mr. Ichiro Ozawa has received three million dollars (three hundred million yen) in this decade, a big surprise for innocent voters. The secretary has been in charge of managing Mr. Ozawa’s political funds in these years.
The result of the judicial trial is yet to be known; but the news gave great impact on the Japanese people in March; and some political commotion is still lasting while Mr. Ozawa is so far determined to keep his current position: the head of the Democratic Party of Japan.
With so many young politicians in the party, the resignation of Mr. Ozawa would probably weaken its organizational structure and capability. What’s more, Mr. Ozawa’s presence can suppress growth and infiltration of pro-North Korea forces within the party. Mr. Ozawa cannot casually leave the post which also protects him from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office.
As the current ruling party LDP is now so unpopular, it is expected that Mr. Ozawa will win the coming election with so many handicaps and disadvantages.
Since the LDP is well associated with major corporations while the DPJ is with labor unions, this change in political administration is comparable with that achieved by Mr. Barack Obama.
Yet, the Japanese voters who want Mr. Ozawa to resign as head of the DPJ account for more than 65% of all. Nonetheless, it is highly expected that each party will secure almost the same number of seats in the Lower House of the national assembly after the election.
Due to Mr. Ozawa’s presence, if it should get off the balance in favor of the LDP, incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso will continue his administration.
And, in this case, Prime Minister Mr. Aso might secure the longtime rule of the government.
However, there is a merit of Mr. Ozawa’s keeping his current position in the DPJ if not as prime minister of Japan, since his presence can suppress growth and infiltration of pro-North Korea forces within the DPJ.
(In case that Mr. Ichiro Ozawa should step down before the general election, Mr. Yukio Hatoyama will probably take up the post as the head of the largest opposition party in Japan, since Mr. Hatoyama is close to 40-year-career politician Mr. Ozawa.)
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Now we have to review the relationship between Investment, Consumption, and National Income.
The conventional economics is wrong in that it neglects the largest stakeholder in a nation: businesses that function mainly and instinctively to increase their profits sacrificing workers and consumers, though the national income must be appropriately shared by workers and businesses and by consumers alone eventually.
The more businesses take the national income, the less workers take. It would be as if the final end of Investment would be to make businesses rich or increase their profits.
Therefore, to avoid this bias toward businesses, make workers rich, and make the national income meaningful, the profits those companies have gained must be fully distributed among workers and consumers.
It is so, since one of the reasons for the Great Depression is: the more businesses take from the national income, the less innocent workers take.
(Vous et moi, je serai libre comme les oiseaux dans les arbres.
http://www.menziesera.com/midi/diana.mid
Source: http://www.menziesera.com/singalong/diana.htm)
1Pe 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1Pe 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Pe 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.