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Any planned protest marches?

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    #182
    yoshytoshy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭yoshytoshy


    sollar wrote: »
    Can you explain how they are responsible for this mess?

    If I ever felt the need to join a union ,it would be because they look after the best interests of the worker (myself).
    For the best part of the last ten years ,unions have demanded more money from government without any thought as to future growth and sustainable employment in their areas.
    It's the unions responsiblity as much as the governments ,to ensure that their workers aren't left out to dry like this.
    Part of the ensurance is economic forecasts etc, thats why they are paid high salaries.

    I've nothing against the lowest paid workers rights ,I'm close to that area myself. But I'll be damned if I'll let some toe rag take the credit for ousting the government ,when it's clear they are going anyway. Especially considering they've been in bed with government for so long.

    They've made a fool of their members and now they're trying to keep public support ,so they can get into bed with the next government.



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    #183
    dsmythy
    Registered Users Posts: 10,508 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    Butch Cassidy wrote: »
    I fail to see how a receptionist or admin staff or a teacher or a phlebotomist is to blame. They didn't come up with the neoliberal policies of free markets that led to western world recession or the property bubble here.

    In a true free market economy no taxpayers would foot the bill for a failing bank, so don't go blaming that either.


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    Butch Cassidy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Butch Cassidy


    dsmythy wrote: »
    In a true free market economy no taxpayers would foot the bill for a failing bank, so don't go blaming that either.
    And where has the "true free-market" ideas put forward by Friedman ever been implemented? It's a fantasy much like Soviet Communism. Another failed ideology to add to the history book based on a utopian vision. Communism led to gulags, neoliberalism led to bailouts paid for by joe bloggs.


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    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    I don't think the other euro countries anticipated a stunt like Lenihan's 2008 bank bondholder guarantee. Thats why they are preparing new rules for 2013 which will prohibit that sort of thing. Not Friedman style neo liberalism, just basic accountability. When you invest, the value of your investment can fall as well as rise.


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    zig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭zig


    Was gonna start a new thread but I said id use this one, just wondering is there any other formal protests outside the dail or elsewhere on budget day bar the Socialist Party one?
    Thanks


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    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    There's a march by the Right To Work campaign starting at 7pm in the Garden of Remembrance that will converge on the Dail. This was called before the ULA was finalised hence the different times/meeting places. I can't get in earlier so I'll be joining that one myself.

    http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=154859997881753


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