The best is yet to come , Not !!!

teepee

Any body remember this book ,
The best is yet to come ,
by Marc Coleman it hard to belive we listed to nonese like this thinking we were on the verge of new world power .
Has he left the country or has he a new Job ?


http://www.westernpeople.ie/news/story/?trs=eyaumhsnsn

For Forks Sake

teepee wrote: »

Any body remember this book ,
The best is yet to come ,
by Marc Coleman it hard to belive we listed to nonese like this thinking we were on the verge of new world power .
Has he left the country or has he a new Job ?


http://www.westernpeople.ie/news/story/?trs=eyaumhsnsn

Has a late night show on Newstalk http://www.newstalk.ie/programmes/all/coleman-at-large/

RichardAnd

You've clearly never actually read that book because if you did, you would know that it's title is dreadfully misleading and woefully ill timed in it's publishing. Whilst it did contain rather vantic claims for the future (2020+) it also predicted a down turn with a loss of thousands of jobs.

The lesson in this? Don't judge a book by it's cover

johnnyskeleton

RichardAnd wrote: »

You've clearly never actually read that book because if you did, you would know that it's title is dreadfully misleading and woefully ill timed in it's publishing. Whilst it did contain rather vantic claims for the future (2020+) it also predicted a down turn with a loss of thousands of jobs.

The lesson in this? Don't judge a book by it's cover

It didn't predict a downturn, it was published in 2007 when the downturn was already underway for anyone who would care to look. His central thesis is that after a short blip (soft landing) to the current growth period, we would go into a new boom. What did he base this new boom on? Why, more people coming to Ireland increasing demand for houses and such things. Hence, the title the best is yet to come is quite accurate, he was predicting that we hadn't reached the full heights of our glorious empire built on selling houses to each other and then renting them out to people who were only here so that they could build more houses.

Sand

Hes got a show to himself on Newstalk, from 10pm on Tue/Wed nights.

Id summarise his views as an old school conservative nationalist right wing Catholic who essentially blames all social ills on the lack of Church authority and rampant trendy liberalism, got quite enraged when he heard about kids exploiting a loophole to avoid taking Irish for their leaving cert, whilst also doing a good bit of business pulling on his green jersey, claiming everything was on the up and denouncing negative types and doom mongers.

Though hes gotten slightly less interested in economic matters since even he realised how ridiculous he was beginning to sound.

Hes also got a Taliban style nationalism - I am still flabbergasted by how he was hectoring a Fianna Fail TD as to why legislation wasnt being passed to allow the demolition of old 19th century British memorials that offended his Irishness by being there. But as he repeatedly reminds people he used to have some connection to Fine Gael, so thats alright.

silverharp

Sand wrote: »

Hes got a show to himself on Newstalk, from 10pm on Tue/Wed nights.

Id summarise his views as an old school conservative nationalist right wing Catholic who essentially blames all social ills on the lack of Church authority and rampant trendy liberalism, got quite enraged when he heard about kids exploiting a loophole to avoid taking Irish for their leaving cert, whilst also doing a good bit of business pulling on his green jersey, claiming everything was on the up and denouncing negative types and doom mongers.

Though hes gotten slightly less interested in economic matters since even he realised how ridiculous he was beginning to sound.

Hes also got a Taliban style nationalism - I am still flabbergasted by how he was hectoring a Fianna Fail TD as to why legislation wasnt being passed to allow the demolition of old 19th century British memorials that offended his Irishness by being there. But as he repeatedly reminds people he used to have some connection to Fine Gael, so thats alright.

he seems to have put his weight behind the organisation (see below), which maybe more "virtual" then real , but I'm not in awe of another Tory boy with a petty sense of nationalism

http://www.nationalforum.ie/

Manach

Sand wrote: »

Id summarise his views as an old school conservative nationalist right wing Catholic who essentially blames all social ills on the lack of Church authority and rampant trendy liberalism,

The new Ireland of the Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Cultural welfare state has gone so well then has it not? From my own history, at least the Catholic tradition of excellence in education provided a backbone to the current technological industry which is one of the few bright spots in the economy.

silverharp

Manach wrote: »

The new Ireland of the Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Cultural welfare state has gone so well then has it not? From my own history, at least the Catholic tradition of excellence in education provided a backbone to the current technological industry which is one of the few bright spots in the economy.

isnt that a bit like saying "at least Hitler built the Autobahn"? if something is wrong , its wrong

FR.Ted Crilly

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

It didn't predict a downturn, it was published in 2007 when the downturn was already underway for anyone who would care to look. His central thesis is that after a short blip (soft landing) to the current growth period, we would go into a new boom. What did he base this new boom on? Why, more people coming to Ireland increasing demand for houses and such things. Hence, the title the best is yet to come is quite accurate, he was predicting that we hadn't reached the full heights of our glorious empire built on selling houses to each other and then renting them out to people who were only here so that they could build more houses.

aaa! the people who came here were, and still are saving up to buy a house back in their own country for a fraction of the price here, if you didnt notice Irish were scrambling to get a house before they were priced out