Written by Rob Carter   

Robert Reich writes: "America has a serious 'We' problem - as in 'Why should we pay for them?' The question is popping up all over the place. It underlies the debate over extending unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed and providing food stamps to the poor."

Robert Carter writes: "Potsdam Declaration
Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender
Issued, at Potsdam, July 26, 1945
1. We-the President of the United States, the President of the National Government of the Republic of China, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, representing the hundreds of millions of our countrymen, have conferred and agree that Japan shall be given an opportunity to end this war.
2. Following are our terms. We will not deviate from them. There are no alternatives. We shall brook no delay.
3. The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out and Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor islands as we determine.
Tokyo Bay 1945 Japanese Surrender Instrument (Treaty) wording:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender>
We, acting by command of and in behalf of the Emperor of Japan, the Japanese Government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, hereby accept the provisions set forth in the declaration issued by the heads of the Governments of the United States, China, and Great Britain on 26 July 1945 at Potsdam, and subsequently adhered to by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which four powers are hereafter referred to as the Allied Powers.

Wikipedia.."Okinawa/Ryukyus" 100's (Islands USA added to the 4 WW II '45 Surrender Instrument, by a USA Unilateral SFPT '51 delineation of Japan, consequence of USA declaring by legal wording tricks USA is the "We" by some magical agency delegation, that the "We" never awarded, or by misinterpreting the World War Laws USA usurped Civil Government to become "the military Government in Occupation" contrary to War Law wording since Emperor & Civil Government was left in power by all treaties and declarations from Cairo 1943 till 2014 today.

Okinawa Prefecture …..is the southernmost prefecture of Japan. It comprises hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long. Ryukyus extend southwest from Ky?sh? (Southwesternmost of Japan's main four islands) to Taiwan, encompassing the southern two thirds of that chain. Okinawa's capital, Naha, is located in the southern part of Okinawa Island.

SFPT 1951 Between Japan and USA assented to by 51 Nations excluding 2 or the 4 "We" allies of all prior agreements etc. included the authorities of:-
Article 1
(a) The state of war between Japan and each of the Allied Powers is terminated as from the date on which the present Treaty comes into force between Japan and the Allied Power concerned as provided for in Article 23.

(b) The Allied Powers recognize the full sovereignty of the Japanese people over Japan and its territorial waters.

And 23 says:-
Article 23
(a) The present Treaty shall be ratified by the States which sign it, including Japan, and will come into force for all the States which have then ratified it, when instruments of ratification have been deposited by Japan and by a majority, including the United States of America as the principal occupying Power, of the following States, namely Australia, Canada, Ceylon, France, Indonesia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Republic of the Philippines, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America. The present Treaty shall come into force of each State which subsequently ratifies it, on the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification.

(b) If the Treaty has not come into force within nine months after the date of the deposit of Japan's ratification, any State which has ratified it may bring the Treaty into force between itself and Japan by a notification to that effect given to the Governments of Japan and the United States of America not later than three years after the date of deposit of Japan's ratification.

NB: two Nations of the "We" 4 Allies (Russia & China) have never (a) Ratified it nor (b) so affected."