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Primetime Late Debate

  • 11-02-2011 3:35am
    #1
    creative100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭


    The last two debates I think have been brilliant. Pity they are on so late because I think these are the debates people should be watching. Pearse Doherty performed well tonight, as well as the other panelists including Fine Gael's Peter Matthews. A healthy, mature debate.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vroGAJ5kY


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  • #2
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #3
    alyuciao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭alyuciao


    Economists tbh are just people that have studied the way that money goes around, mixed with a big dollop of game theory (basically the same system that poker players use).

    A politician with an ounce of common sense, who is not susceptible to "brown envelopes" (be those envelopes in the form of cash, goods or re-election) and who has the calling to serve the people. That knows the value of money, knows what he can buy with a certain amount, all the while putting some away for the next rainy day in world economics; is a politician that I would vote for.

    There lies the rub....... All our politicians are self serving.....

    it's the nature of our system. Local issues take priority which in turn corrupt national issues, which in turn corrupt the politician.

    So when you go to vote at the next election, ask yourself this...

    "What will they do for my country ?", rather than "what can he do for me?"

    Just an observation, not a rant.


  • #4
    Duiske
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    No, he is not an economic expert, unlike the "experts" who landed us in this mess. Still, that did not stop the other contributers to the debate from agreeing with many of his points.


  • #5
    Soldie
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Soldie


    Duiske wrote: »
    No, he is not an economic expert, unlike the "experts" who landed us in this mess.

    Not one person in this thread has argued that Fianna Fáil are experts, so I have no idea who you are quoting.

    It is in threads like this one that I am reminded of the endless threads on Northern Ireland in which anyone criticising Republicans is labelled a West-Brit, and anyone criticising Unionists is labelled a terrorist. Highlighting the lunacy of Sinn Féin and the ULA's economic policies (the beer-goggled view that the same sum of money can be spent several times) does not mean that one thinks Fianna Fáil's policies are good. There is a distinction between bad and worse that many here fail to grasp.


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