Chapter 4 "Whack-a-mole" reform

So, are we really just wasting our time?I don't think so.Mr. Koizumi's greatest contribution is to prove that "even the stubbornly conservative post-war political system can be destroyed as long as there is strong belief and willpower."Regardless of the content of the reform, this is already a big step forward. Some people say that Koizumi Junichiro is a strange person, some people say that Koizumi Junichiro is a strange person, whether he is a strange person or a strange person, in short, Koizumi Junichiro is like a ronin who exists to overthrow the 270-year-old Edo Shogunate Like a samurai, he played his best.However, the methods used by Koizumi Junichiro and his group of men, just like the ronin who were unable to function in the new Meiji government era, have no chance to appear in the new Japanese society.No, I don't think it's okay to give them a chance to play.

The reason is simple, because no matter how bad the system is destroyed, it will not grow good things by itself. After the privatization of the Road Corporation, it only made the originally decadent organization more domineering.Today's Japan doesn't need road corporations at all.The Road Corporation is only a time-limited organization established in an era when there were no expressways and no money, to "enrich the national expressway network with tolls." Therefore, it should be disbanded after the phased tasks are completed.Privatizing the road corporation is itself a wrong policy.

With regard to the three postal businesses (postal business, postal savings, and simple insurance), after the abolition of postal savings and simple insurance, the post office can remain state-run or transferred to private operations, but there is no reason to privatize all three businesses.First of all, the idea that "privatization is commonplace" is the biggest mistake.Koizumi Junichiro also thought so, but when he consulted on "privatization", the committee that came up with the privatization plan was just perfunctory.The quota reduction of civil servants must reach 5% within 5 years. For private enterprises, this figure is just "natural weight loss".

Koizumi's reforms are really about correcting the illogical parts of the services or products provided by (government agencies) by "correcting what is visible", that is, playing "whack-a-mole" and "acting on the Under the appearance of "punishing bad officials on the stage", a drama of "punishing evil and promoting good" is staged.This kind of practice has nothing to do with what should be done in essence. That's why when a group of people oppose "whack-a-mole", the postal privatization has become a grand plan costing 77 billion yen. big drama.

In fact, today’s Japan has no time to waste money and people on the topic of privatization, because the debt of the Japanese government ranks first in the world, the speed of population aging is also the highest in the world, and although prices have dropped slightly, they are still high.Japan has the largest deposits in the world, but the hot money does not flow into the market for only one reason, that is, the people do not trust the government. I don't think these people want to live with savings, but even if they want to enjoy life with their own money, but because they are uneasy about the future, they have to put money on it to be brave and prepare themselves for danger.However, the Japanese government actually concentrated the precious money of the people into postal savings or time deposits with almost zero interest rates, and then desperately misused the money.This kind of government can really step down.

Therefore, the top priority of the Japanese government is not to correct the phenomenon, but to correct the cause, and the cause must be eradicated.