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A great day for all us Irish ?

  • 23-11-2010 10:18pm
    #1
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭


    Folks, is this not a great day for all Irish citizens. Is EU/IMF pressure to do the right thing not what we have always needed to put pressure on politicians without the guts or too self interested to make the right decisions?

    We will now have decisions implemented for the good of the country without them being hobbled by political considerations, byelections, gombeen independent TDs, cabinets unable to take on unions and regional vested interests.

    Would we be in the position we are in if we had followed EU/IMF financial policies for the last 5 years ? I think not.

    Rejoice! Its a great day !


Comments

  • #2
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    I'm going to be honest, this thought has crossed my mind many times - "At least these guys actually know what they're doing".

    The problem, of course, is the aim. We, the Irish people, would aim to return Ireland to prosperity. I fear that the EU and IMF, taking the broader picture into account, would be more than happy to condemn us to absolute misery as long as it meant the rest of the eurozone would survive. They are not here necessarily to act in Ireland's interest, they are here to ensure we don't become a liability to everyone else. It's a sort of quarantine, if you will, of our economic problems. And quarantine generally isn't practiced in the interests of the quarantined, it's practiced to protect everyone else from them.

    I could, of course, be wrong about that.


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


    For an awful lot of us, the arrival of the IMF is probably one of the best things that is going to happen in our life time.
    I am delighted.

    The people who will suffer are those who've been sitting on the gravy train.
    Our society should now become a lot more equal.
    If it doesn't, then there is absolutely nothing to keep me here and I will gladly leave these shores.


  • #4
    femur61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭femur61


    Unfortunately, I have to agree. I feel so ashamed and humiliated with the arrival of the IMF/EU. Hopefully, it will weed out all the cronyism and all that is wrong in PS. The unions here hold so much power. Kevin Myers wrote a brillant piece in the Daily Express with what is wrong with the political/PS here. He highlights that the nurses/teacheres are some of the highest paid in Europe. It is very unfortunate though it is in an UK based newspaper so they might some protestations form the UK offering us a loan, even though it is economically in their interest.


  • #5
    CiaranC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,300 ✭✭✭CiaranC


    Turkeys voting for christmas


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