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Are we really a republic?

brianthebard · 2007-11-22 13:35:45

In most republics the president is much more powerful than ours, the two houses of state are more balanced powerwise, there is no state religion or "special mention" given to one religion in constitutions, and the people of the state may have a stronger say in how the country is run, through the use of popular referenda.…

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#32 28-09-2008 8:30am
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asdasd wrote: »

Ignoring the violation of Godwins law, and the demand that the president always be a left wing fanatic, who is exactly starving to death, now? We have spent vast amounts of taxpayers money on funds to help the poor and the sick, ask the HSE where it went.

Down the drain

Thats easy. A autarkic State hostile to Britain and free trade was replaced by a socialist paradise where workers paid 65% tax on £13,000 ( in 1990 Ir£) or more. Result, misery and emigration to more capitalistic climes where the living was easy.

The lemass years were socialist? They were anti free trade were they?

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