英語検定ライティング準１級（第254回）

老老介護「エアコンなくて熱中症で死亡の話」

大阪での話だが高齢の夫婦がエアコンのないアパートで死んでいたらしい。高齢ということもあってフットワークも重たかったのだろう。助けを求めることもなく２人で覚悟してたのか。
There was an extremely miserable murder case in Osaka, where a senior and elderly couple were dead in the apartment without an air conditioner, an article says.
They seemed too old to ask for help by car, or they decided to go somewhere else together, to our sorrow.

これは心の痛む事件だ。集中豪雨で東北も大変らしいが政府のフットワークはどうなのか。特に脱税議員は追徴課税を受けないのならせめて寄付してほしい。残念過ぎて死にそうになる。
This uncomfortable incident in Osaka absolutely brings home to us, at the same time, an intensive rain storm has attacked the Tohoku district since yesterday, which hasn’t forced the government to take any immediate actions because their deaths haven’t brought home to the Diet members criticized for their kickbacks or secret money in the least, who should donate immediately.
The current situation, including the government’s attitude toward our society, is likely to force numerous ordinary citizens to feel like killing themselves, he says.

消費税が一般庶民を苦しめる。それは大企業の法人税を下げるためにある。大き過ぎる貧富の差は資本主義の行き詰まりを意味する。献金賄賂から脱税から選挙違反から何でもありだ。
Consumption taxation has made ordinary citizens be in the poverty since 1989, which was established in order to lower the corporate taxation because the government has been compelled by the Japan Business Federation.
Too a large difference between the wealthy and the poor means that the current capitalism system doesn’t work well, which makes only negative contributions to Japan’s society in the economic viewpoint, to our anger.
Major corporations provide not a few LDP members with bribe, those involved in the bribery should commit an undesirable tax fraud, and they might break the election regulations illegally, which means that the wealthy could do everything without their crimes blamed in the courts.

今年は去年より暑い。エアコンなしのアパート暮らしの高齢夫婦の死亡によりも脱税を隠す方が重要なのだ。大阪万博もメタンガスの上でおこなう。カジノ運営会社も撤退してほしいよ。
This year’s temperature is much higher than that of the last year, but the malicious Diet members emphasize their tax fraud instead of the fact that the elderly dead couple described above had no air conditioner in the apartment, at the same time, Osaka intends to carry out the World Fair on the methane gas against the residents’ will, which will be accompanied by the casino invitation.