make good
LDP acts to make good on campaign pledge to trim welfare by 10%; exception likely for elderly
Public handouts to the poor to be cut
Welfare minister Norihisa Tamura said Wednesday that welfare payments to the poor will be cut across the board, reflecting a government panel's finding that some are receiving more money each month than what low-income workers spend on average.
He spoke to reporters in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, after the panel, under the Social Security Council, reported its findings.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry as well as the Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner, New Komeito, will decide the rate of reduction by the end of this month in the process of compiling the state budget for fiscal 2013, starting in April.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20130117a2.html
make goodにはいろいろな意味があります。ここは「（約束を）履行する、（目的を）遂げる 」の意で、on campaign pledgeをともなって「選挙公約を守る」となります。お笑い芸人の何とかさんも責任を感じているようですが、最近はTVでの露出が減っているような...。（UG）
