Election 2012

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I don't know who ought to be running this country, but several parties that offered candidates clearly are disqualified.

Those are the parties who propose to protect existing special interests without talking about how to fund them, especially the anti-TPP coalition. TPP is a threat to the income of heavily subsidized sectors of the Japanese economy such as part-time family farmers, the drug companies, and doctors. It's reasonable to want to protect those who work in these sectors, but the costs to the Japanese economy of protecting jobs, especially to consumers, will be immense.

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