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The Dublin Consensus is bunk.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 09:37:04 AM EST
Mind you, people are a bit distracted right now, since the West of the country is mostly under water.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 09:41:30 AM EST
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But not to worry, there might be an election and then we could have a Fine Gael government.

That'd be just great:

In advance of the 2010 budget, the party has proposed a permanent €900m tax cut for business, financed by matching tax hikes for workers. This is not a tax cut `targeted at the most vulnerable jobs' as they suggest; it is a tax cut that will boost corporate profits with only minimal and incidental job creation. The net effect would be a significant and regressive re-distribution of wealth.

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Make no mistake, this big business tax cut is a Trojan horse for slashing welfare and public services. Fine Gael want to cut the 2010 budget deficit by €4bn, €3.8bn of which would come from cuts to current spending. This would take slash-and-burn economics to a level that even the Fianna Fáil government considers to be beyond the pale.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 09:47:12 AM EST
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Your problem is you have no choice between shitty political parties. As opposed to...

No, forget it.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 10:00:03 AM EST
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