Fraud

One of the campaign promises the Democratic Party of Japan made during last year's elections was that they would remove all tolls from the highways in Japan. Never mind that revenue will decrease; stupid people will vote for you if you flash some money in front of them.

Six months later. Are the highways free of toll? Nope, not a chance. In fact, today, it was announced that the toll would essentially be RAISED starting in June.

Now, I didn't agree with getting rid of tolls in the first place but is this even allowed? In principle this is worse than when George H.W. Bush said, "Read my lips: no new taxes" during the 1988 campaign, prior to raising taxes. If he had said, "Read my lips: no taxes," then I guess that would be worse but how is it permissible to do something completely opposite to your campaign platform? If not legally, at least ethically?

Parliament needs to be dissolved. The DPJ is just too inept and I seriously worry the country is going to fall apart.