(Bye-bye Tokyo! See you soon, since I live 30 minutes far.)American Agenda and Asian Agenda
NPR over the Internet broadcast "Born in the USA" of Bruce Springsteen this morning as I accessed the NPR stream.
Once I was driving late night from Yokohama to my town via Tokyo streets to get tired and drop in a cafe or restaurant on the road side; I felt like I was a Japanese Bruce Springsteen since there were some Americans in the shop.
Of course, in those days, no one dreamed that another Vietnam-War-class military age would come to the U.S. almost 20 years after.
Yet, I do not know how much musician Mr. Bruce Springsteen contributed to the rise of Mr. Barack Obama.
Your reading EEE Reporter at New York or Los Angeles in the midnight might contribute to the future rise of, for example, the first foreign-born U.S. President or the first Judaist, Islamic or Buddhist U.S. President.
SECTION I: UNSECURED AMERICAN VOTERS
I suppose at least half of the viewers of this blog do not work for powerful international enterprises based in the U.S. or Europe.
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New York Times, July 14, 2008
By Reed Abelson
Of the 47 million uninsured people in this country, at least 20 million are employed by small businesses or work for themselves - a figure that has increased by an average of more than 500,000 a year since 2000. That is why, even as the presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are floating ideas for making insurance easier to obtain by individuals, there are also efforts under way to address the needs of small businesses.
"Half of the uninsured people in our country are working for small businesses," said Nancy Wyman, the state comptroller for Connecticut...
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With its 15% of the population left uninsured and insecure, how can a presidential candidate who proposes a health-insurance system that covers all of its citizens not be elected as U.S. President?
But, I recommend President Mr. Barack Obama to put the system on private initiatives of the health insurance industry. It is so, since freedom and liberty are worth risking their lives in the U.S.
SECTION II: Great is Asia
To tell the truth, it has been indeed difficult that Japan alone, as a representative of Asia, competes with Europe and North America.
Japan is getting relived, in this context, with the rise of Taiwan, Korea, China, India, and other Asian countries busy deploying their capability in the modern material industry and trade.
(Click to enlarge.)As the population of Asia is seven times larger and the GDP is 0.8 times larger, Asians live nine times more materially sinless life compared with EU citizens and NAFTA people.
(Theologically, the Devil can capture a European or a North American nine times more easily.)
The above table I prepared, however, implicates a kind of difference in cultural paradigms between the old world and the new world, NAFTA.
In this sense, you might be happier living in North America on a different level of freedom and liberty.
But, form a historical point of view, the value of North America to mankind depends on whether or not they can establish a new religion, such as Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.
Another table focused on religion and morality is needed for analysis on three major regions on the globe.
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(To be continued...)
Mar 6:22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
Mar 6:23 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
Mar 6:24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.