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Dole figure's second drop in a row

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  • #2
    PCPhoto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭PCPhoto


    was this not already covered ??

    its people emigrating leading to a drop in numbers.... and similarly with income tax lower than last year (of course - because less people have an income !!!)

    the government seem to look at statistics with rose tinted glasses - trying to find the positive in it - when "normal" people look at the statistic and then figure out the logic.

    Wake up politicians !!! - the people handing you statistics are making you look like an idiot !!


  • #3
    Dannyboy83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,236 ✭✭✭Dannyboy83


    Reality is that many people cannot even get Social Welfare.

    The amount of homeless people has noticeably increased.

    I'm certainly no leftie, but how we can call ourselves a civilised country is beyond me given the dubious nature by which people are excluded from social protection.


  • #4
    RichardAnd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    Same topic being covered in a different thread:


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056078826


  • #5
    BornToRun88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭BornToRun88


    gflood wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1103/jobless-business.html

    But look at the last comment -

    Enterprise Minister Batt O'Keeffe said the figures were 'very encouraging'.


    So FF think that emigration is encouraging ? What an idiot.

    They think it's encouraging because those emigrants would most likely have voted against Fianna Fail so it means one less anti-Fianna Fail vote in the next election.


  • #6
    cee_jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    Its not just emigration though. Those people on Back to Education Allowance aren't counted as being on the Live Register. Which will lead to a big spike in the Live Register again in May/June when the colleges are finished for the summer.


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  • #7
    RichardAnd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    gflood wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1103/jobless-business.html

    But look at the last comment -

    Enterprise Minister Batt O'Keeffe said the figures were 'very encouraging'.


    So FF think that emigration is encouraging ? What an idiot.



    O'Keeffe is doing precisely what you're doing but from the opposite side of the field. He's looking at the figures and trying to make them appear wholly positive, publicly at least. You're looking at the figures and trying to make them wholly negative.

    Have you figures to prove emigration is causing the drop in live register? And if it is then why has is only happened now when emigration supposedly has been happening for months yet we only see a drop in dole claimants in the last two months?

    I'm not having a go at you personally but Batt is saying one thing and you're saying the opposite. The truth, as with many things in life, most likely exists somewhere betwixt the two extremes.


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