'Hurry up and die' Taro Aso

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese Finance Minister: Government Should Let Old People 'Hurry Up And Die'
heraldsun.com.au (AFP) | Jan. 21, 2013
Japan's finance minister Taro Aso said Monday the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" instead of costing the government money for end-of-life medical care.
Aso, who also doubles as deputy prime minister, reportedly said during a meeting of the National Council on Social Security Reforms: "Heaven forbid if you are forced to live on when you want to die. You cannot sleep well when you think it's all paid by the government.
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[yanpa]

He'll be leading by example, I trust?

[james]

I routinely hear the meat wagon go by here several times a week, and recently more than once a day. Trust me, they're dying as fast as they can.

[yanpa]

But their ranks are swelling even faster.

[kagemusha]

1. Aso is a complete idiot, the result of generations of inbreeding.
2. Aso is right in the sense that many old people are staying in medical facilities without any meaning and purpose. Wife's great grandmother died at the age of 102 after 2 years of being confined to her bed without any possibility of movement without the ability to communicate besides incoherent sounds. A few years ago she said she doesn't want to live anymore but no one had the guts to grant her that basic wish and show real respect. The medical center have no interest to shorten the suffering since it's its source of income and the family afraid to do anything which might be accepted in the wrong way in their town.
There is a problem here and the answers are not simple. Japan will have to deal with a tsunami of such cases in the next 25 years.

[yanpa]

Put the care homes and hospitals in the right location and a tsunami will neatly take care of the problem at some point

[Coligny]

Put the care homes and hospitals in the right location and a tsunami will neatly take care of the problem at some point

Brilliant, let's concentrate in a single point:

Collapsing highway tunnel
Nukular powerplants
Yuasa battery factories
Care Homes
Whales canning meat plants
the Japanese Diet
Totoya design center

And flush the toilet...

[Samurai_Jerk]

He'll be leading by example, I trust?

If we're lucky, he will and he'll do it with a massive suicide bomb at the next LDP meeting.

[matsuki]

But their ranks are swelling even faster.

The "rich jews?"

[yanpa]

But their ranks are swelling even faster.

The "rich jews?"

¿Que?

[Coligny]

I think there is a meme aboot blaming the jews for everything, personified by a picture of captain Kirk entangleded in a christmas light cord shouting "i bet the jews did this".

[matsuki]

Taro Aso, a former prime minister, also triggered a furore in 2001 by saying a successful country was one where "rich Jews" wanted to live.

[yanpa]

Oh thanks, I remember that now.

[kagemusha]

Taro Aso, a former prime minister, also triggered a furore in 2001 by saying a successful country was one where "rich Jews" wanted to live.

There's a chance he was talking about me but I'm not really rich and definitely don't want to live here.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I think there is a meme aboot blaming the jews for everything, personified by a picture of captain Kirk entangleded in a christmas light cord shouting "i bet the jews did this".

But Captain Kirk is Jewish.

[Coligny]

I think that's the joke... now I'm not gud at understamating memes...

---2001 ? I barely knew japan existed back then...

[legion]

You cannot sleep well when you think it's all paid by the government.

If this is an accurate translation then this is where he fails. It is paid for by the tax payer, family or insurance. The government generates no income, it does however consume a great deal, including Ashole's salary.

[Coligny]

Yea but it tells soooo much aboot dem politicians mindset...

[sublight]

"You cannot sleep well when you think it's all paid by the government."

So... as a third-generation politician whose entire life has been paid for by the government, how well do you sleep, Taro?

Or do you just never think?

[sublight]

Actually, I take that back, only the second two-thirds of his life has been paid for by the government. The first third, of course, between his dad's POW workers and Taro's own stint at a Sierra Leone diamond mining operation, being paid for by slave labor.

So I'm sure he sleeps just fine.