Irish Gobshite wannabe Ruler...Read between the lines.

[Palingenisis]

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Making it easier for Business to take people....I know what that means.

Jobs placements....Cutting people for the unemployment figures by forcing them to do crap shite for their dole.

As Scummy as Fianna Fail is and I do not want these bastards getting in.

[Bright Banana Beard]

united left alliance, let them in.

[Palingenisis]

united left alliance, let them in.

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Listen to his accent....Ugh...

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Tony Gregory and Seamus Costello were true sons of the working class...May they rest in peace.

[Palingenisis]

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One of our own says it all. The ULA are Trotskyite opportunists.

Im voting Christy Burke and thats it.

[RGacky3]

the Irish Obama, investment for the future, oh and cut taxes for buisinesses and the rich. Oh and internship programs, i.e. free labor.

Looks like this guy follows the Obama doctrine, give buisiness everything they want, kiss their toes, and maybe, just maybe, he'll do the right thing.

Don't let this guy in.

[Crimson Commissar]

united left alliance, let them in.
And then nothing will change in Ireland whatsoever! Hooray! :rolleyes:

[Che a chara]

'manifesto' :sleep:


Socialist Party publishes manifesto

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Dublin North candidate Clare Daly and Mick Barry, Cork North Central, at the Socialist Party manifesto launch in Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

The billions in funding being used to bail out the banks should instead be used to create jobs and to develop infrastructure, the Socialist Party said today.

The party, which is running nine candidates in the general election under the United Left Alliance umbrella, published a manifesto that it described as an “aid for discussion”.

Among its policies, it advocated tax on the "super-wealthy", an increase in corporation tax and a cap of €100,000 on public sector salaries.

On the IMF-EU bailout, the party said the idea that Ireland would not be able to get credit and would financially collapse if the bondholders weren't paid was “wrong”.

"Working class people in other countries have defied the IMF and forced them to retreat," the manifesto said. "People across the world would support such a stand."

The Socialist Party said the debts to the IMF-EU would “choke the economy”, taking €10 billion – or 20 per cent of tax revenue in 2014.

Socialist Party MEP and former TD Joe Higgins said the IMF-EU came to the country with the programme of "savage austerity", which was not in the interests of the Irish people or the Irish economy.

Rather it was about rescuing major European banks from billions in “bad gambling, speculative debts” they incurred as a result of “recklessly going into the Irish property market with Irish bankers and developers”.

"The Irish people, working people, pensioners, or poor people have no responsibility for that. It should not happen. It is immoral and unjust. When I have confronted the president of the European Commission Mr [Jose Manuel] Barroso with that contention he had no answer. Neither do any of the parties."

Cllr Mick Barry said Fine Gael and Labour’s pledge to renegotiate the bailout deal was an attempt to pretend they could "turn a rotten deal into a good one".

"I think the hollowness of this claim has been shown dramatically by the intervention of Mr [Alan] Dukes in the campaign, talking about an extra €15 billion, possibly to bailout the banks. Which shows the insanity of a policy of bailing out banks, paying for the bad gambling debts of the bondholders."

On jobs, Mr Barry said there was no issue more important for the Socialist Party in this campaign.

"The three major parties – Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Labour Party – in our view have no credibility on this issue. Fianna Fáil preside over a dole queue with 440,000 people on it."

Mr Barry said Fine Gael and Labour's respective plans to cut 30,000 and 18,000 public service jobs would represent the “largest jobs cull” in the history of the State. He called instead for State investment in infrastructure to get people such as carpenters, plasterers and bricklayers back to work.

Dublin North candidate Clare Daly cited recent figures from Social Justice Ireland which suggested the top 5 per cent of earners in Ireland wealth of about €120 billion, with the top 10 per cent of people sharing 25 per cent of total income.

Cian Prendiville (21), believed to be the youngest candidate running in the election, said two out of three young men in his constituency of Limerick City were unemployed. Young people were among the hardest hit by the current crisis and the increase in college fees had made third-level inaccessible for a lot of working class people.

“Even if young people do manage to get through university they are facing a life of ling term unemployment. Thousands of nursing, teaching and other graduates are having the option of public sector jobs cut off by this government and they are basically being pointed in the direction of the dole queues."

Mr Prendiville claimed the Government’s "de facto policy and that of the opposition is to tell young people to emigrate".

The candidates for the party are Joe Higgins (Dublin West); Clare Daly (Dublin North; Conor MacLiam (Carlow Kilkenny); Mick Barry (Cork North Central); Brian Greene (Dublin North East); Mick Murphy (Dublin South West); Rob Connolly (Dublin Mid West) and Cian Prendiville (Limerick City).

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LINK: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0210/breaking37.html

[Qwerty Dvorak]

Tony Gregory and Seamus Costello were true sons of the working class...May they rest in peace.
Interesting you should say that since Tony Gregory propped up Haughey's Fianna Fáil. Do you agree with that action?

[Dimentio]

the Irish Obama, investment for the future, oh and cut taxes for buisinesses and the rich. Oh and internship programs, i.e. free labor.

Looks like this guy follows the Obama doctrine, give buisiness everything they want, kiss their toes, and maybe, just maybe, he'll do the right thing.

Don't let this guy in.

Better than Phase 3.

Sweden, the first country to have reintroduced the institution of slavery-

[RGacky3]

Sweden is going down imo, the Swedish model of Welfare Capitalism is unsustainable (btw, there IS NO UNIVERSAL NORDIC MODEL, freaking stupid Media, welfare Capitalism and social democracy are 2 different systems).

When you start privatising you create fake growth (the state sells cheap, companies buy, make massiave profits, but its essencially a government handout), and bubbles, if you also try and keep the welfare state up through taxation, but not buisiness taxation, you loose out on demand (buisinesses can't buy their own products), and eventually it just collapses.

The large unionization in Sweeden is helping (making sure the money goes downward), but imo once you start privitizing majort industry its just a matter of time.

[Dimentio]

Phase 3 is worse than that.

People who have been unemployed more than 2 years are supposed to do "volunteer work" for private companies. The company pays no wages and the company owner receives 4500 SEK a month for every Phase 3 worker.

Right now, there are over 12 000 who are in Phase 3. That number will rise.

[RGacky3]

Damn I had'nt heard about that, thats rediculous.

The only think sweeden has going for it now is strong unions, but stuff like this could easily kill the unions.

I'll tell you whats gonna happen, huge investment in sweeden, and giant government spending (hav'nt to keep up with all the unemployment as companies employ less), as well as a shrinking consumer market.

Sweeden is heading for disaster.

[RGacky3]

anywhere I can read more about this?

[Palingenisis]

Interesting you should say that since Tony Gregory propped up Haughey's Fianna Fáil. Do you agree with that action?

Not really, but at the same time he got so much out of Haughey that was extremely badly need in the north inner city that Im prepared to turn a blind eye (also consider the disillusionment he went through as the IRSP/INLA degenerated during the early 80s though he always remained commited to a 32 county Soviet Republic...And you also have to remember that Charlie was a far cry from Bertie....)....Also you have to remember that the alternative to Charlie was Fine Gael and what absolute unforgivable scum they are.

My strongest point against Dev was that he didnt ruthlessly suppress CnG once he had taken power. That weakness on his part is truelly one of the many tragedies in Irish history.