Hot Air » taro aso http://hotair.com The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Wed, 22 May 2013 00:41:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Japanese minister: Let the elderly hurry up and die already http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/22/japanese-minister-let-the-elderly-hurry-up-and-die-already/ http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/22/japanese-minister-let-the-elderly-hurry-up-and-die-already/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:31:45 +0000 Allahpundit http://hotair.com/?p=240302

Bottom line.

Revealingly, he’s the country’s finance minister. A quick bit of googling reveals that people think he was talking about letting elderly patients who don’t want to linger in the hospital choose assisted suicide. Could be, but the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio is over 200 percent and, thanks to its appalling birthrate, more than 40 percent of [...]

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