http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/politicians-pay-even-more-than-you-think/ How to make, save and spend money in Japan. Sat, 18 May 2013 10:38:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/politicians-pay-even-more-than-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-77000 Natalie Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:21:49 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/?p=3113#comment-77000 This article fails to address the fact that those pay cuts will impact all the way down the ranks of the public service. The average public servant, @ike my husband are barelu bringing in the averahe salary for the private sector that was wuoted, and that’s with overtime. What little of it there is. Politicians and publically elected officials are one thing, the lower ranks of the public service is quite another. Keep cutting the saleries of the first responders and see how things go next disaster and the one after that.

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