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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 223454"><p>I'm not so sure. </p><p></p><p>Japan is <em>the</em> dictionary definition of pork barrell politics. Okay, so the yanks give tax breaks to oil companies and virtually fund the defense industry over there. Japan on the other hand bankrolls <em>everything</em> from central government from bridges to rail lines to buildings to tunnels to savings to most parts of Japanese society. Something going wrong?! Throw cash at it! Its why Japan may have one of the largest trade surpluses in the world but also has one of the largest budget deficits in the world as well.</p><p></p><p>Japan has been in recession since 1992 with a brief look above water between 2000 and 2005 but even that wasn't enough to stop the Japanese government's obsession with lavish spending and waste.</p><p></p><p>It'd probably take a nuclear apocalypse to stop pork from being handed out and a credit crunch has only encouraged the Japanese to spend <em>more</em>.</p><p></p><p>If anything, the current situation now proves even more why Japan should have won the 2011 bid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 223454"] I'm not so sure. Japan is [i]the[/i] dictionary definition of pork barrell politics. Okay, so the yanks give tax breaks to oil companies and virtually fund the defense industry over there. Japan on the other hand bankrolls [i]everything[/i] from central government from bridges to rail lines to buildings to tunnels to savings to most parts of Japanese society. Something going wrong?! Throw cash at it! Its why Japan may have one of the largest trade surpluses in the world but also has one of the largest budget deficits in the world as well. Japan has been in recession since 1992 with a brief look above water between 2000 and 2005 but even that wasn't enough to stop the Japanese government's obsession with lavish spending and waste. It'd probably take a nuclear apocalypse to stop pork from being handed out and a credit crunch has only encouraged the Japanese to spend [i]more[/i]. If anything, the current situation now proves even more why Japan should have won the 2011 bid. [/QUOTE]
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