Posted on 11/19/2014 7:40:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Japan's economy is in trouble. The latest GDP figures unexpectedly show it to be in recession. In the long term, this is largely a story about demographics, and Japan is fighting an uphill battle.
One-fourth of Japan's population is older than 65, and that number isn't going down anytime soon. That means a shrinking percentage of the population is working. Meanwhile, a growing percentage of the population is receiving benefits, living on a fixed income, and being supported by that shrinking population of workers.
No amount of loose monetary or fiscal policy will bring more working-age people into the economy overnight.
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TURNING JAPANESE
by THE VAPORS
I’m turning Japanese
I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
I’m turning Japanese
I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it’s dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger
Everyone
That’s why I’m turning Japanese
I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
I’m turning Japanese
I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
Virgin Islands No. 4?? Retirement destination?
For about the same reason, I expect to work until I die...
I don't think you will find many Freepers here who do not support controlled legal immigration. It's a great way to secure new talent and ideas much like we have always had in our history. The problem is the hoard from the south of the border who choose not to play by the rules. Thus creating the need for what you call "draconian prohibition". The ones who lose are the ones trying to get into the country legally.
Since 1973, we enlightened and socially advance Americans have slaughtered 57 million babies.
Whining about immigration in this case really is ignoring the fluorescent orange elephant in the middle of the room.
H1B is destroying opportunities in the tech sector. Legal immigration is worse than illegal immigration. WE HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE, people.
” ... many of the villages have died. Just ghost towns. The young people move to the cities and they old folks die out....”
For a moment, I thought you were describing upstate New York.
It makes some sense: they expended a lot of their youth on the war, then they were defeated [that has to have an impact on morale] and their countries had little in the way of industry left (it having been destroyed [esp in Japan]; Italy pulled out earlier which lessened its damage in this area) which meant fewer decent jobs. — Then there's the post-war inflation to consider: look at how inflation is adversely impacting the middle class's means here and multiply that by an order of magnitude.
If the above gave a more "depressive" social mindset in-general, well, let's just recognize that depression has an impact on the sex-drive.
I didn’t say it’s bad. It is what it is, whether anyone thinks it’s “bad” or “good.”
cva.. we agree on things about 99.99% of the time here. I do agree we have enough people. What I was stating, is I think if we can recruit the world's brightest people. Let's get them. Everyone else.... Need not apply.
Doing that will give us a competitive advantage, especially in the tech sector. Shutting off the spigot 100% would not support that.
Plausible. Also wonder if having such huge war losses created a demographic void.
>>A recent survey showed that a majority of teenage boys in Japan were not interested in sex, and preferred to play video games.
>>I think they’re in big trouble....
If you’ve known Japanese females, those boys don’t know what they’re missing.
Ok what do you do for a living?
Comfortably retited.
Hm, I guess that depends on how you're qualifying/analyzing the demographics: at the broad end 100% of the German/Japanese/Italian citizens are their respective country's people, but if you were to increase your granularity you might find that (for contrived/unverified example) more Protestants were killed in Germany than Catholics, which would result in a shift in religion if big enough.
what do your children do for a living?
Here's my explanation.
I knew someone would post a reference.
I always loved the title of that album "New Clear Days".
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