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Jack O'Connor and austerity

  • 24-02-2012 12:58pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭


    Is this chap for real? The Labour Party (who are responsible for implementing the said austerity) is in power and he criticises the ESRI for pointing out the obvious?:rolleyes:

    No protest marches then Jack? Typical.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0224/economy.html

    In its latest quarterly economic commentary, the ESRI said that while austerity measures are having a damping effect on economic activity, the Government has few policy options to stimulate growth.
    SIPTU President Jack O'Connor has criticised the ESRI for its view that austerity is working.

    Mr O'Connor said: "How could any rational intelligent or independent economist suggest that austerity is working while simultaneously projecting a further fall in jobs?
    "Today's report is a further example of the ESRI's sycophantic subservience to the bankrupt orthodoxy which is ruining the lives of millions of people across Europe."

    Just change ESRI to the Labour Party and its about right.:rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Jack is the man who knows all about austerity;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭Auvers


    poor auld jack with his 120k+ salary a year, he must be really suffering


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    Auvers wrote: »
    poor auld jack with his 120k+ salary a year must be really suffering

    Jack has the power to pressure the labour Party not to vote in these measures. Why is he not using it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    sycophantic subservience to the bankrupt orthodoxy

    Why do union officals speak like this :confused:. Mr O'Connor isn't alone with these lofty phrases


    Sure are fond of using ten words when one or two would do


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    Jack has the power to pressure the labour Party not to vote in these measures. Why is he not using it?

    Ah he'll need a bonus for that sort of thing:p


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  • Registered Users Posts: 43,017 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Maybe if Jack and the rest of his fellow elites drained less money from the public purse with their disgusting bloated wages then maybe there would be less need for such austerity in the country:mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭Auvers


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    Jack has the power to pressure the labour Party not to vote in these measures. Why is he not using it?

    didn't receive enough of these


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭henryporter


    micropig wrote: »
    Ah he'll need a bonus for that sort of thing:p
    He could always dip into the slush fund that SIPTU has


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    Jack has the power to pressure the labour Party not to vote in these measures. Why is he not using it?

    he does in his hole. The labour party are powerless themselves. They've assumed the same role as the greens did in the last Government

    Sacrificing their core party ethos for the approval of the daddy in the coalition


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12


    Maybe if Jack and the rest of his fellow elites drained less money from the public purse with their disgusting bloated wages then maybe there would be less need for such austerity in the country:mad:

    There would. The money that goes toward the wages of elected officials is just a tiny fraction of what we owe sadly n


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Auvers wrote: »
    didn't receive enough of these

    more like a few more of these


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭Spacedog


    The ERSI is a semi-state funded organisation and cannot be considered independent for this reason and for their track record of providing an economic buffer of re-assurance to successive government's policies.

    Economists in general are no better than fortune tellers or at best primitive meteorologists. they attempt to predict the future based on a limited set of information presently available. So any bias, no matter how small in economic analysis, can dramatically affect the result.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Atilathehun


    Hundreds of thousands of workers, and their extended families, along with several other hundreds of thousands of unemployed and under privelaged, people in this country, fall asleep each night, safe in the knowledge that Jacko, is standing firm in the "bearna baoil", defending their rights and entitlements.
    I forsee a time, when a great statue will be erected in his honour, in the Phoenix Park. Future generations of Irish people, will gather there at every opportunity, to pay homage to this great patriot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Leave poor aul Jack alone


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Pete M.


    Spacedog wrote: »
    The ERSI is a semi-state funded organisation and cannot be considered independent for this reason and for their track record of providing an economic buffer of re-assurance to successive government's policies.

    Economists in general are no better than fortune tellers or at best primitive meteorologists. they attempt to predict the future based on a limited set of information presently available. So any bias, no matter how small in economic analysis, can dramatically affect the result.

    Agreed. Even Richard Toll, a recently resigned associate prof with the ERSI has said the same pretty much...

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0102/1224309715732.html


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,369 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    sycophantic subservience to the bankrupt orthodoxy which is ruining the lives of millions of people across Europe

    Whilst Jack has long suffered from sycophnatic subservience to the doctrines of Karl Marx, a failed and bankrupt orthodoxy which resulted in the loss of lives of millions of people across Europe, and the ruination of millions more...... :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    Hundreds of thousands of workers, and their extended families, along with several other hundreds of thousands of unemployed and under privelaged, people in this country, fall asleep each night, safe in the knowledge that Jacko, is standing firm in the "bearna baoil", defending their rights and entitlements.
    I forsee a time, when a great statue will be erected in his honour, in the Phoenix Park. Future generations of Irish people, will gather there at every opportunity, to pay homage to this great patriot.

    *takes off cloth cap, wipes tear from eye*

    Sure isn't he an inspiration to us all.

    micropig wrote: »
    Ah he'll need a bonus for that sort of thing:p

    More like "Eh that wasn't part of me original contract so I will be needing a little top-up of a couple grand per year for this new training and such there boss"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Gunmonkey wrote: »
    *takes off cloth cap, wipes tear from eye*

    Sure isn't he an inspiration to us all.




    More like "Eh that wasn't part of me original contract so I will be needing a little top-up of a couple grand per year for this new training and such there boss"


    Is he like the guy who presents the Eurovision in Fr. Ted, one accent in public & another in private?:p

    Pay rises all round - A great bunch of lads:D

    I vote we change the national anthem somehow to include him


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Unions are cnuts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Mickey Dazzler


    I begin to shake with rage when that horrible little cnut starts to talk.

    Fcuk you Jack.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 518 ✭✭✭nacimroc


    What Mickey said! Whats all this with Unions stickin their noses into the economy and household charges etc? Unions should Pi$$ off back to bitching and moaning getting civil servants overpaid jobs causing the mess they are bitching about!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig




    About the English Labour party but may be applicable to our own:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Poor Jack earning c € 200k p.a. would know alot about austerity. Dare say he might even know a bit about union slush funds and misappropriated HSE monies.

    Get off the stage Jack. :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Pete M. wrote: »
    Agreed. Even Richard Toll, a recently resigned associate prof with the ERSI has said the same pretty much...

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0102/1224309715732.html

    Glad he's gone, a complete tulip. He even managed to slag off the country (most unprofessional) before leaving, what an idiot.:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Poor Jack earning c € 200k p.a. would know alot about austerity. Dare say he might even know a bit about union slush funds and misappropriated HSE monies.

    Get off the stage Jack. :(

    That's €80,000 more than he was earning at the start of this thread:eek::p

    Well deserved pay rise for Jacky boy!

    Edit: Wage figure at start of thread may not have included payment for the 13th month...;-)


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    No austerity in Jack's "Trophy house" then I guess...


  • Registered Users Posts: 422 ✭✭Popeleo


    Hundreds of thousands of workers, and their extended families, along with several other hundreds of thousands of unemployed and under privelaged, people in this country, fall asleep each night, safe in the knowledge that Jacko, is standing firm in the "bearna baoil", defending their rights and entitlements.

    I forsee a time, when a great statue will be erected in his honour, in the Phoenix Park. Future generations of Irish people, will gather there at every opportunity, to pay homage to this great patriot.


    Wouldn't it be easier having the statue in Sydney if the majority of our future generations are living in Oz?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    Poor Jack earning c € 200k p.a. would know alot about austerity. Dare say he might even know a bit about union slush funds and misappropriated HSE monies.

    Get off the stage Jack. :(

    By being one of the main trade union men responsible for the doubling of public sector wages in the space of ten years in this country, O'Connor will go down in history as the man who cost the country tens of billions of euro. There are a lot of private sector workers who were not on your gravy train O'Connor and who would love to meet you down a dark alley one night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Zen65


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Why do union officals speak like this :confused:. Mr O'Connor isn't alone with these lofty phrases

    Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.

    A substitute for deep thought & insight!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Zen65


    Spacedog wrote: »
    Economists in general are no better than fortune tellers or at best primitive meteorologists.

    Both fortune tellers and meteorologists are more interesting to listen to. Their art can be considered entertainment. An economist has little to offer by way of entertainment.


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