Chapter 67 The people have no determination to endure hardship

Even the slightest entanglement in a political party's policy thinking will create policy opposition.However, when it comes to pension issues, there is no antithesis axis, or it can be said that there is no antithesis axis in the first place.Perhaps the antithesis will not arise until specific pension reform measures are proposed, the existing system is abolished, and the method of formulating the system is fundamentally changed.But this is impossible. In addition, there are issues of increasing the consumption tax, reducing expenditures in order to rebuild the fiscal system, reforming the civil service system, and issues related to foreign policy. It is a bit absolute to say that Japan has no political opposition at all, but why are these Questions are still unresolved?

Still, pointless, time-wasting political arguments go on. I don't think it's going to yield any good results right now to focus too much on the opposite axis.why?In fact, the problems Japan is facing now are very simple. There are only two roads before us. The first is to recognize the current fact: Although Japan is still some distance away from an extremely crisis situation, it must take precautions, that is to say, it must adopt wise policies to make Japan more open and get rid of the bad luck of long-term recession. The other path is to do nothing and gradually decline. Other than that, there is no other choice.

Of course, when making this choice, in addition to the progress of gradually opening up the policy, it is also necessary for the people to gradually awaken on this long road. If the Japanese have the determination to bear hardships, they will not only be able to overcome the "economic illiteracy" mentioned in Chapter 3, but also improve their intelligence and actively participate in global economic activities.Independently judge and participate in investment activities, and take responsibility for life by yourself.The country should think about how to rebuild its finances, curb national debt, pay attention to market regulation, allocate resources as effectively as possible to promising industries, and build a "small government" on this basis.Only in this way can the number of civil servants and parliamentarians be reduced, and voting in elections can be a deliberate act.

Although taking such measures would seem extremely painful to Koizumi, in reality they are nothing compared to his phony reforms. However, the current Japanese do not have such awareness. The Japanese have become accustomed to "not thinking" from top to bottom, so now they have become ignorant of what "thinking" is. In any case, if the citizens of a country do not have the spirit to endure hardship, the country will decline.If the people are always content with the status quo, do not think about making progress, and are blindly deceived by the sweet words of the government and the media, then the election will always be just a "〇X game'.

All the leaders elected in the "〇X game' lack leadership ability, and they are also incapable of formulating plans, and the citizens will only follow these politicians to choose "〇" or "X".