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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: elmatador who wrote (64419)5/30/2005 2:53:34 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
ElM, there's no problem for Japan. Old Japanese own lots of investments. So they can live off their investments. If they like, they can build Japanese retirement villages in New Zealand and the low-paid here will be pleased to work for them.

I doubt that'll happen, as there will be plenty of people in Japan to provide the goods and services the old want to buy and home is where the heart is.

Your precious open-spigot immigration idea is a solution looking for a problem, which would create a very big problem if the Japanese were silly enough to take you up on the offer. Having swarms of Islamic Jihadis taking over Japan wouldn't improve Japanese life. Neither would it be attractive to them to have swarms of Africans moving in, speaking some weird language and robbing them in the street.

The people in Holland are starting to notice that it's not all good news having Islamic Jihad in the street - with Van Gogh left dead with a letter stuck to his body with a knife.

Japan has very low crime rates and they probably want to keep it that way.

They are a bit like me, but there are a LOT more of them. I have investments overseas, am paid dividends, which I spend at the supermarket, petrol station, restaurant, movies, airport etc. I suppose Japanese have even more investments. They can do the same. They can buy a lot of stuff from overseas, same as New Zealanders do. Made in China is just fine. Or even Brazil. There's no need to move the mountain to Mohammed - just deliver the goods required.

Mqurice
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