On the Street With Zo: Why Vote Democrat?

Zo hit on so many good points, it is hard to pick one. So, I'll just say, great video Zo, and looking forward to many more in 2010!

You might want to add a NSFW warning. But, that was classic.

Zo, once again a masterful vid! Let's all have a good year, uh and watch out for the flying shoe. Oh, and be sure to bring back Doughnut once in a while! God bless you Zo!

She's under the impression Sony gives away their products for free and pays its employees with a handshake.

The schools are definitely better in Japan. They didn't have to deal with desegregation which destroyed education in the US. We are a laughing stock because of it.

"You don't see the irony in that?" BURN!!!!

Yeah Japan isn't capitalist at all. I live there, they have no money they don't own or run any sort of business, everything is rationed by the government evenly and they all live in public housing…

I think the real reason that girl is broke is because she is too stupid to figure out how to make money. Japan is the second largest economy in the world, what the hell was she thinking… Oh wait she wasn't. She says Capitalism is evil but says we need to have more small businesses? Isn't business even small and family owned part of the Capitalistic economic system? I guess UC Davis doesn't actually teach people anything or care since I can't believe someone that stupid could get into collage. That or she pulled that sweat shirt out of a dumpster.

Oh shut up Fonz

No, you have it completely wrong again. The left told miracle stories about Japanese "industrial policy" (aka planning) at a time when japan was extremely successful (1970s/1980s) in order to get the same thing implemented here. The truth is that planning was alternately a myth or a flop.

Like every other country that got rich, and accounting for some cultural differences, Japan practised entrepreneurship and capitalism. That some large corporation received favors from the state doesn´t change that. (US industries got pampered, too, and failed anyway).

They didn´t "dump" anything. The failures of the US or British auto industries are legend. The German car industry is much better and politically connected you still see lots of Japanese cars, machines and appliances there. And you see Japanese and Korean cars in emerging countries where neither VW or GM ever bothered to do business.

Love the street interviews. Liberals in their own words… don't confuse them with like, facts n' junk.

Very True Yamamotosan. Japan is a prime example of the confusion free peoples have over capitalism [prosperity] and socialism [feel good economy killing]. The lesson of the lost decade hasn't really sunk in as a result. And they have the highest suicide rate in the world, next to China. We really need to give moral support to Japan, and buy Japanese products, if we wish them to restore themselves to an oasis of free market prosperity in the wasteland of widespread socialism in Asia. But, as it is now, it is falling prey to the same leftist, anti-American sentiment, racial guilt [ the past torture of the Chinese], and Green hysteria that has destroyed Europe and is currently undermining our own Liberty. Japan is even threatened with Islamization and Shariah just like Europe, as Islam is their second largest religious group. I truly feel that if Americans conquer creeping socialism, eco-hysteria, and radical Islam, Europe and Japan will regain the courage to fight back too, ne?

I love me some Zo!!!!!!

The schools are as good as the kids in them. When the kids are good, it's great. But in, say, the Buraku ghettos, it's hell on earth. Don't feed into stereotypes. And how are the Japanese supposed to desegregate when the population is 99% ethnically Japanese?

Oh there are defiantly problems in Japan, there is too much protectionism, such as in the rice industry were it is at least twice as expensive as it should be because of protective tariffs on imports and the fact the local rice is more expensive to produce. The country also relied too heavily on construction as a way to lessen unemployment resulting in a lot of pointless construction at the taxpayers expense that really only lined the pockets of people that had friends in the Diet. The Book "Dogs And Demons" by Alex Kerr does a decent job of explaining how some of the problems started. It's got it's problems, such as the author apparently thinks Japan doesn't have enough left-wing student organizations on collage campuses (because that always helps) but it does shed enough light on some of the problems in Japan to help people figure the rest out

One of the problems is that when they finally tried to get rid of all the old shit heads from the LDP (who are "Conservative" in the European definition of the term and not the American one) they just got new shit heads (same old idiots only now they want to suck up to China more and leave North Korea alone). The average person goes to work runs a business and is all down with Capitalism (even if they don't realize it) the problem is that much like the West it has been infected by the Corporatist leanings of the politicians for years and most people don't give a crap about politics because they don't think they can change anything. The thing is that they do in a way have a political class and the normal person doesn't have much say and other than a few fringe political parties most politicians are mostly the same.

I love Japan but it does need to pull it's head out of it's ass and get a good Conservative/Libertarian party in there. We also need a Second Amendment here, all the Yakuza got guns and I get arrested if I have a pocket knife.

Yes. Which works for a while, but it is hardly the main reason Japan got rich. And I don´t think it helps a nation once it IS rich. I don´t like to see America de-industrialized either, but turning our backs on free trade will not do any good. Is there anybody who trusts Congress to "manage" trade?

I didn't say it helped that much I'm just saying that there wasn't as much planning as people try to claim.

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