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- Some 50 US municipalities are facing defaults.
- The US Navy ship fired at fisherman's boat. An Indian crew died in the shooting and three injured. The survivors are claiming that the US ship did not issue proper warnings.
- The Israeli Kadima Party is to leave the Prime Minister Benjamin Netaniyahu's coalition government on Tal law issue that sets the compulsory draft age for ultra-orthodox. The departure may accelerate the election of the government.
Let us ask this question: what is the blue print of the Obama Administration in the East Asian region? A puppet government with lavish spending that far exceeds its revenue? The cabinet members selected by 'amateur' which 'makes just no sense' at all? Where will it go, in terms of its relationship with China? Mock hostility toward the largest communist nation on earth with 8% GDP growth, that supposed to put an effective disguise for the dangerous hawkish right wings in the States? Why is there sill Ozawa, who is boasting of his ties with China, the shadow shogun who was put on trials? The polls rightfully suggest he should be out by more than 70%. The rumor said, the bad guys in the States has long ties with him and still thanking him for drawing the tax money which was used for the Gulf war.
The lack of plan is what characterized even his speech in Tokyo or any talks for the region. Granted any President must balance the power between the pro-China corrupt Democrats who still carry on the idea that the nation is still poor and needed 'assistance' for fight against poverty, and those who takes the nation as an 'allies of the US, an aircraft carrier that never sinks' against the potential 'enemy' communist states such as China and Russia, there still needs some strategies that sets his policies in the region.
The ineffectiveness of the Obama Administration's policies that almost bankrupted the nation -- not here in the States, that should come later -- but elsewhere where the US's influence affects the nation's politics. Now it is facing a tax hike. The consumption tax is worst of all, easy to implement, a flat tax, that has gone up ever since it was imposed despite such protests that topple the government. The bill passed the legislature with compromises -- of another tax spending proposed by the opposition party.
They say, when the next election comes, the opposition party will win, with promises of -- this time, huge spending plans, plans for public construction, infrastructure spending. After pissed off with the left wing populist spending plans, here comes the revival of spending plans for public building and infrastructure, a traditional base of the opposition party. The trillions of dollars for the nation where there is virtually no crack on the road and road signs never put down, no lights go out. The plan's name: strengthening in preparation for possible earthquake disaster. Fine; it is just there already is no money that is for already neatly maintained infrastructure. No more borrowing; no more spending; or the inevitable tax hikes will effectively put an end to the nation's economic growth.
Let us hope some real plans for the region will be put up for the next election in November. Let us hope the tax fight for the riches even further weakens the position of the US that will force other nations to compromise, which will demise what we together hold as democratic values and human rights.