Japanese Official: ‘Let Elderly People Hurry Up and Die’
Taro Aso, Japan’s 72-year-old finance minister, says he’s worried about the financial burden that end-of-life care is placing on his country. ”Heaven forbid if you are forced to live on when you want to die,” The Guardian newspaper quoted him as saying on Monday. “I would wake up feeling increasingly bad knowing that [treatment] was all being paid for by the government,” he said during a meeting on social security reforms. “The problem won’t be solved unless you let them hurry up and die.” The newspaper noted that almost a quarter of Japan’s population is over 60, as is Aso. The Guardian also reported that rising welfare costs prompted last year’s decision to double Japan’s consumption [sales] tax to 10 percent over the next three years. MORE
Japan should take some tips from the U.S. Feed everyone fast food, alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. Keep them idle in large industrial cities with poisonous air and tell them to stay indoors to avoid inhalation (this will also keep them out of the sun which kills germs and provides vitamin d). Broadcast shock news and shows that flash at 10hz which can cause nausea, vomiting and seizures (you already did this with a Pokemon episode that sent hundreds of kids to the hospital). Or just take away their housing and benefits and force them to sleep on the streets. You can learn alot from America the Beautiful!