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The fiscal compact for dummies.

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  • #32
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    pancakes rule wrote: »
    These basically describe what we'll be looking at come voting day
    When you have to resort to scare tactics, you may want to rethink whether you're on the right side.


  • #33
    pancakes rule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭pancakes rule


    Millicent wrote: »
    Eh? If not sure of something, don't vote.

    If he doesn't vote the treaty may be passed with serious consequences of which he wasn't aware.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The most important fact about the economy to remember is the fact that "money" is an illusion, it only has "value" because bankers & politicians say so! We never own that money, the owners name is on it, we have temporary possession of it and we are charged interest for that privilege!

    Money is nothing without faith, it is the job of politicians to ensure that we remain faithful to the god of money that the bankers have bestowed their divine Euro notes upon us after we've sweated our balls off working to earn it only for them to take them away for the purpose of taxes and to ensure that they pass through the bank as many times as possible.

    Every time a Euro pass through the bank the banker gets interest on it, a bit like passing "GO" on the monopoly board!


  • #35
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    pancakes rule wrote: »
    If he doesn't vote the treaty may be passed with serious consequences of which he wasn't aware.
    If he votes No, the the treaty may not be passed with serious consequences of which he wasn't aware.


  • #36
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Every time a Euro pass through the bank the banker gets interest on it, a bit like passing "GO" on the monopoly board!

    But no matter because apparently "money" is an illusion.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dvpower wrote: »
    But no matter because apparently "money" is an illusion.
    It is, but like devout cult followers, we're all suckered into working for the bankers to ensure that it maintains it's status!


  • #38
    James Forde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭James Forde


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Can we not use Pepsi to describe it in layman's terms?

    Partial credit!


  • #39
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    dvpower wrote: »
    If he votes No, the the treaty may not be passed with serious consequences of which he wasn't aware.

    Thanks, this is exactly my point. I WANT to vote, but this sh!t is never easy to understand. I want things to be good, and as an Irish dude I want to at the least give it a shot. Things got fucked up before I even had the opportunity to have a say (Thanks for that, by the way), now I can be a proper grown up and all the junk.


  • #40
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Is it basically the Fifa Fair Play policy for countries?


  • #41
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,711 ✭✭✭stimpson


    dvpower wrote: »
    If he votes No, the the treaty may not be passed with serious consequences of which he wasn't aware.

    If he votes no they'll just keep asking until he says yes. That's how democracy works (apparently).


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  • #42
    pancakes rule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭pancakes rule


    humanji wrote: »
    When you have to resort to scare tactics, you may want to rethink whether you're on the right side.

    They were meant in a more satirical fashion. The Government are the ones who are really using scare tactics, almost anyone would know that that won't be written on the ballot papers, where as the scare tactics used on the Yes side are put in such a way that many will believe it to be the truth because of all the right wing media.

    By definition, both sides are using scare tactics; you just have to decide what you're more scared of.


  • #43
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Or ignore both sides and read the treaty.


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