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TDs looking after themselves

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    #62
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    Hmmm, Sinn Féin and health issues...flight to America, anyone?

    What's this now?


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    #63
    Bullseye1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,731 ✭✭✭Bullseye1


    To suggest politicians are not in that line of work not to make money is ludicrous. They are in the business of getting re-elected and protecting their income like any other professional be they a doctor, dentist, architect. They need an office to meet their clients (electorate).


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    #64
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Ghandee wrote: »
    What's this now?

    Gerry Adams goes to US for private healthcare. NHS or HSE not good enough for Gerry.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gerry-adams-denies-hypocrisy-over-private-us-medical-treatment-3354250.html

    Not the topic of this thread 'tho.


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    #65
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,611 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    To suggest politicians are not in that line of work not to make money is ludicrous. They are in the business of getting re-elected and protecting their income like any other professional be they a doctor, dentist, architect. They need an office to meet their clients (electorate).

    The elected ones get their money from a salary. There are probably some unelected ones who have offices as well. Do you know any that charge a fee for a consultation at their offices?


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    #66
    Biggins
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    dvpower wrote: »
    Gerry Adams goes to US for private healthcare. NHS or HSE not good enough for Gerry.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gerry-adams-denies-hypocrisy-over-private-us-medical-treatment-3354250.html

    Not the topic of this thread 'tho.

    Yea, shame on him paying for his treatment rather than waiting to get a freebie to add to the public expense.
    Shame on him wishing to get quickly treated so that he could get back to work serving the people.


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    #67
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Biggins wrote: »
    Yea, shame on him paying for his treatment rather than waiting to get a freebie to add to the public expense.
    Shame on him wishing to get quickly treated so that he could get back to work serving the people.
    I know. And since he only draws down the average industrial wage as a SF TD, he must have had to save for ages to be able to jet off to the US for private healthcare.
    I've said it before and I'll say it again - that Gerry Adams fellow is an absolute martyr.


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    #68
    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    Zebra3 wrote: »

    They want us to pay new taxes on our homes to cover private gambling debts, they want charities to pay as well, but themselves?

    No, it is to close the 15bn gap between what we spend on our State and what we pay in taxation.


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    #69
    Bad Santa
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    I wish TDi's did.


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    #70
    Ghandee
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    dvpower wrote: »
    Gerry Adams goes to US for private healthcare. NHS or HSE not good enough for Gerry.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gerry-adams-denies-hypocrisy-over-private-us-medical-treatment-3354250.html

    Not the topic of this thread 'tho.

    A support group, privately funded by their own money, paid for everything.

    Probably to help out a man they obviously 'support'?

    What's the issue here?


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    #71
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    shedweller wrote: »
    Same as it ever was!

    Stop making sense.


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    #72
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,611 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    dvpower wrote: »
    I know. And since he only draws down the average industrial wage as a SF TD, he must have had to save for ages to be able to jet off to the US for private healthcare.
    I've said it before and I'll say it again - that Gerry Adams fellow is an absolute martyr.

    You're not being fair here. His friends paid for the flights. He only had to save up for the medical treatment.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/sinn-feins-support-group-that-flew-adams-to-us-for-operation-has-750000-in-the-bank-3357528.html

    Mr Adams has insisted that he paid for the cost of the successful procedure for a prostate problem in New York last summer and that the money did not come from Friends of Sinn Fein USA.


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    #73
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Ghandee wrote: »

    What's the issue here?
    What the fug are you on about? You asked a question and I answered it.

    Gerry is a great lad altogether. A man of the people. He understands the struggles of the ordinary man to the extent that he only takes in wages what the ordinary man takes. Gerry wouldn't be doing with special treatment, its just not the way he rolls.


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    #74
    dvpower
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    You're not being fair here. His friends paid for the flights. He only had to save up for the medical treatment.

    But sure everyone knows that private medical care is as cheap as chips in the US. Everyones jetting off to the States for treatment these days, aren't they?


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    #75
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    dvpower wrote: »
    What the fug are you on about? You asked a question and I answered it.

    Gerry is a great lad altogether. A man of the people. He understands the struggles of the ordinary man to the extent that he only takes in wages what the ordinary man takes. Gerry wouldn't be doing with special treatment, its just not the way he rolls.


    Short version.

    You think the man should have taken his chances and possibly have died?

    I'm surprised at you.


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    #76
    dvpower
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    Ghandee wrote: »
    You think the man should have taken his chances and possibly have died?
    One thing is for sure.
    Our hero would accept a penny if it wasn't a life or death situation. Not that he values his own life - its just that his work is not yet done here and he'd be letting so many people down if he died prematurely.
    The man is a living saint.


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    #77
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    dvpower wrote: »
    One thing is for sure.
    Our hero would accept a penny if it wasn't a life or death situation. Not that he values his own life - its just that his work is not yet done here and he'd be letting so many people down if he died prematurely.
    The man is a living saint.

    I am not one bit embarrassed to say, I haven't a clue what that post even means?

    Are you talkin in riddles here?


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