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To: que seria who wrote (67003)	4/4/2001 10:52:41 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 116984

Since 1946, Japan has done everything which the United States has required or ordered it to do. Japan has been the most loyal ally the U.S. has ever had. It has maintained a Constitution which the U.S. wrote for it, a Constitution which absolutely prohibits Japan from having the means with which to defend itself militarily. That entire external defence has, as this Constitution and its attached Treaty requires, been supplied by the United States. It has, since 1945, had the permanent placement of U.S. Armed Forces upon its soil. It has taken up one of the very largest holdings of U.S. Treasury debts ("reserves") of any nation. Having co-operated with the U.S. in every conceivable way, especially in the years since the 1987 crash, Japan has paid the price of more than a decade of recession and a financial structure which now mirrors the one that post-war Japan faced, with the entire nation in physical ruins, in 1946. After its total defeat by the United States in 1945, Japan stood like a Samurai who could only accept death as the inevitable outcome of total defeat. But that death did not come. Instead, the victor allowed the defeated to live. According to just about any feudal code that has ever existed, that established an unending obligation upon Japan. But it follows, based upon the same old code, that the victor (having granted life) takes upon himself the moral obligation of being a good master. The United States has not fulfilled its part. The Lord decides for the vassals, and a vassal who fulfills every requirement of the Lord simply cannot do wrong or be seen as having done wrong, even if the Lord leads all the vassals to destruction. Now, in financial terms, Japan is in a position where, by the end of 2001, government debts will stand at a huge 151% of Japan's GDP. In 1991, the ratio was 51%. That will break Japan financially. This is the outcome of a decade-long barrage from the United States that Japan must act to stimulate its economy. Japan has not stopped stimulating its economy since it passed the first supplementary budget in 1992. History speaks loud and clear on this situation: The Master becomes the slave of the slave and the slave winds up as the Master of the Master. Got Gold? Got Guns? Got Guts?