Russian-style firing squads? Gets the shooters off welfare too..

Latvia has turned its economy around by cutting government spending.
Public sector pay was cut by 30% in one year.

Latvia have their own currency. Ireland is tied to the Euro and yet the people still voted yes to the fiscal treaty!

The reason why Estonian unemployment rate fell is emigration from the country
People can’t get work and emigrating

Austerity DOES work. It works for the wealthy, who are getting on very well, thank you.

Reckon it’s a lot higher if the various scab labour schemes were cut.people couldn’t emigrate we be higher than Spain or Greece.

Indeed without austerity I’d expect to see high unemployment numbers. Saved we are.

In November 2010 the fina fail government had to seek a ?85 billion “bailout” from the?ECB?and the?IMF?on onerous terms. that’s not paid back yet.. more cuts are needed to pay out back.

True , 90% unemployment in ireland if the shinners / labour on their own / any leftys get in

Stick to chewing the haribo’s steven like a good little lad!

You know “frank” i really think its funny your party is called labour when the majority of your supporters are lazy welfare leeches

Thats more like it young man,
I think your being too nice
They are treacherous, lying, self serving lowlifes who have destroyed the labour party Gilmore, Howlin, Rabbite and Quinn should be lined up against a wall and shot. They have sold the working class people of this country down the swannie

Sorry Stephen I misread you and subsequently gave you credit which I realise now you dont deserve.
Your calling people who support the Labour Party welfare leeches, wow thats a fairly broad accusation!
I refer to my first comment stick to the haribo’s little boy!

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Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. It is the proper sphere of government to create and enforce a framework of law that prohibits force and fraud. But it must refrain from specific economic interventions. Government’s main economic function is to encourage and preserve a free market. When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: “Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.” It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.


Henry Hazlitt,
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

Redistribution of wealth helps the middle class. Stephen Church wanted Fianna Fail pig with lipstick in a poke, he gets to own it. His ad hominem attack on you, is yet another example of a non-contributor’s attempt at wit. And Stephen’s attempt at direction explains his lack of insight considering he isn’t a significant voice given the demise of his Fianna Failers.

Church,

Joe’s comment got a majority recommendations whilst yours got none. As you have lost the argument, History will never blame “the left” for the 2008 Financial Crisis and the economic depression that it created. Why? Because “the left” were not in power in 2008, the conservatives were.

It wasn’t their fault the crisis erupted. There is a monetary policy problem where no Euro country can devalue their currency or print money. Governments should not surrender their sovereignty to a German-led reich.

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@Sean, Euro symbols change to question marks from mobile for some reason as you can see from my post.
That aside Fartbox is entitled to his opinion and express it any way he wants..
Unless they are taxing that next week also.

In November 2010 the fina fail government had to seek a 85 billion Euro bailout from the ECB and the?IMF on onerous terms. that’s not paid back yet.. more cuts are needed to pay this money back… what part of that statement have you a problem with Sean???????? the journal doesn’t do Euro signs for some reason… turns then into question marks :-D