Reply #13: Wow -- Sounds very impressive, especially what you describe for Japan

[Time for change]

I can't say that I fully understand how it works, but it sounds like systems like that could help a lot of people over here. The number of people over here in poverty, without health care, and without homes is a national disgrace. And so is the paucity of mass transit systems. We have a number of people in our country who are extremely wealthy and influential, whose main goal in life it seems is to maintain the status quo so as to avoid any risk to their wealth. And those are the people who own our national news media. Major change is very difficult in this country.