Comments on: Koizumi and Miyazaki in FT’S 50 Faces that Shaped the Decade http://guyjin.me/2009/12/30/koizumi-and-miyazaki-in-fts-50-faces-that-shaped-the-decade/ A Guy with a Blog about Japan Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:06:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: guyjin http://guyjin.me/2009/12/30/koizumi-and-miyazaki-in-fts-50-faces-that-shaped-the-decade/comment-page-1/#comment-2245 guyjin Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:27:03 +0000 http://guyjin.me/?p=998#comment-2245 I can't say I agree with you at all there 'Orwell'. It wasn't the policies of Koizumi that destroyed anything, so much as it was his inability to effectively implement them and complete them that caused bigger problems. He promised to destroy the LDP structure and the bureaucracy, but he found that a much more difficult job than his short term in office could accomplish. He made a start, to be sure, but wasn't able to see his goals to fruition. I don't buy into this 'capitalism is the problem' rhetoric either. Capitalism, after all, by another name is simply freedom. I'm a big fan of that concept. Regulation is fine, but too much of it only serves to restrict freedom, and that never helped anyone. Heavy handed government control has never created as much growth and prosperity as the free market, and never will. The Koizumi administration were not the cause of the current problems. The seeds of these problems have been sown for many years. And to the extent that corporate interests are to blame, a great portion of that is due to their very close ties with government, and the regulations that have been implemented on their behalf by government over the years. It is not the free market that is to blame, but the lack of a truly free market that has caused so much of the imbalance... I can’t say I agree with you at all there ‘Orwell’. It wasn’t the policies of Koizumi that destroyed anything, so much as it was his inability to effectively implement them and complete them that caused bigger problems. He promised to destroy the LDP structure and the bureaucracy, but he found that a much more difficult job than his short term in office could accomplish. He made a start, to be sure, but wasn’t able to see his goals to fruition. I don’t buy into this ‘capitalism is the problem’ rhetoric either. Capitalism, after all, by another name is simply freedom. I’m a big fan of that concept. Regulation is fine, but too much of it only serves to restrict freedom, and that never helped anyone. Heavy handed government control has never created as much growth and prosperity as the free market, and never will. The Koizumi administration were not the cause of the current problems. The seeds of these problems have been sown for many years. And to the extent that corporate interests are to blame, a great portion of that is due to their very close ties with government, and the regulations that have been implemented on their behalf by government over the years. It is not the free market that is to blame, but the lack of a truly free market that has caused so much of the imbalance…

]]> By: Orwell http://guyjin.me/2009/12/30/koizumi-and-miyazaki-in-fts-50-faces-that-shaped-the-decade/comment-page-1/#comment-2243 Orwell Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:27:48 +0000 http://guyjin.me/?p=998#comment-2243 The conspiracies of destroying the public business by the market fundamentalism were now over. Japanese postal services were on the brink of bankrupcy after the privatizaiton but now saved. Government introduced new bill to freeze the sales of the share of the privatized Japan Post. Koizumi-Takenaka policies chasing after the new liberalism almost destroyed the politico-economic structure but again Kamikaze blew and the miserable situation is going to be rectified. The disaster capitalism is now over. Villains in the financial castles should give up the conspiracies. The conspiracies of destroying the public business by the market fundamentalism were now over. Japanese postal services were on the brink of bankrupcy after the privatizaiton but now saved. Government introduced new bill to freeze the sales of the share of the privatized Japan Post.
Koizumi-Takenaka policies chasing after the new liberalism almost destroyed the politico-economic structure but again Kamikaze blew and the miserable situation is going to be rectified. The disaster capitalism is now over.
Villains in the financial castles should give up the conspiracies.

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