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A JAPAN THAT CAN SAY NO: Japan Forces Bureaucrats to Defend Spending. ?Seeking to bring its spiral?

By Glenn Reynolds

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A JAPAN THAT CAN SAY NO: Japan Forces Bureaucrats to Defend Spending. “Seeking to bring its spiraling debt under control, Japan has undertaken an unlikely exercise: lawmakers are forcing bureaucrats to defend their budgets at public hearings and are slashing wanton spending. The hearings, streamed live on the Internet, are part of an effort by the eight-month-old government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to tackle the country?s public debt, which has mushroomed to twice the size of Japan?s $5 trillion economy after years of profligate spending.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 29, 2010 (boomark / email).

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