Perhaps the honourable minister might be willing to volunteer to demonstrate how effectively this idea might work?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/hurry-up-and-die-japans-finance-minister-tells-nations-elderly/article7643799/

• RE: Advice to the elderly? "Hurry up and die",Estee, 04:00 PM, 01-23-13
  • RE: Advice to the elderly? "Hurry up and die",AyaK, 00:30 AM, 01-24-13
    • Time out.,Estee, 08:57 AM, 01-24-13
• *hurries*,moonbaby, 04:31 PM, 01-23-13
• RE: Advice to the elderly? "Hurry up and die",dabo, 07:56 PM, 01-23-13
• RE: Advice to the elderly? "Hurry up and die",Starshine, 08:03 PM, 01-23-13
• RE: Advice to the elderly? "Hurry up and die",newsomewayne, 09:31 PM, 01-23-13
  • RE: Advice to the elderly? "Hurry up and die",Estee, 09:37 PM, 01-23-13
    • Not a Chance,foonermints, 00:48 AM, 01-24-13

Logan-san?

Well, try to look at the bright side. Maybe this marks the death knell of reverence for the elderly in Japanese culture, but the GOP just picked up a definitive cure for the Social Security problem!

You know, as long as we define 'elderly' to mean 'people who actually need their Social Security money'. Anything else would be uncivilized.

I'm assuming finance minister isn't an elected position. Pity, really. That means when he winds up keeping his job, he'll miss out on all the magnificent political opportunities which just opened up for him in America.

I hear Florida's looking for an upgrade at governor.

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This is how left-wing disinformation propagates.

The death panels were Obama's idea -- but here is someone I would have expected to know better trying to attribute them as a GOP idea.

Low-information voters actually believe this nonsense, and the end result is that one of the stinkiest presidents in U.S. history -- appropriately named B.O. -- gets re-elected.

I don't believe there have ever been two worse back-to-back two-terms presidents in U.S. history than Bush and Obama. And low-information voters helped both of them.

*holds up cigar*

This is a cigar.

It is nothing more or less than a cigar.

Furthermore, I had to borrow it.

Dark Social Security crisis joke based in the economic drain Japan claims to be going through. That's all.

Also, I believe a GOP death panel is convening in the House right now. Let me know if Ms. Clinton gets voted to the afterlife.

And here I thought death panels were Rupert Murdoch's idea. Live and unlearn.

*thud*

What form of seppuku does he advise?

I'm assuming he's a very traditional Japanese, thinks of suicide as an honorable thing, and this report about the drop in the suicide rate (though still among the highest in the world) was probably very upsetting.

I guess it's okay to campaign, but as a Japanese citizen, is he even eligible for Kathleen Sibelelius' job?

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