Ruling Party Melt-down and the End of the EU project in Ireland | 144 comments (144 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: The Irish Independent comments... (none / 1)

And if he'd come from an academic background, we'd be complaining about him having no experience of holding down an honest job...

- Jake

Austerity can only be implemented in the shadow of a concentration camp.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri Dec 3rd, 2010 at 06:13:09 AM EST
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Re: The Irish Independent comments... (4.00 / 2)

Well, if he didn't even have an academic background but was a party-political animal from his days in student politics [as in increasingly the case with the new generation of young ministers, for instance Spain's health minister], then we'd have real cause to worry.

Of all the ways of organizing banking, the worst is the one we have today — Mervyn King, 25 October 2010

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 3rd, 2010 at 06:18:24 AM EST
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It's worse with Cowan (4.00 / 4)

He simply inherited the family business...a common enough feature of Irish politics

Brian Cowen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cowen was elected to Dáil Éireann in the Laois-Offaly by-election of 1984, caused by the death of his father.^[21] At the time Cowen, at the age of 24, became the youngest member of the 24th Dáil. He was also elected to Offaly County Council in the same year, taking over the seat vacated by his late father

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Fri Dec 3rd, 2010 at 06:30:57 AM EST
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Re: It's worse with Cowan (4.00 / 3)

Saw one report late last night that his popularity rating is now lower than the interest rate that Ireland has signed up to.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Dec 4th, 2010 at 08:30:52 AM EST
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Honest jobs (4.00 / 2)

No, the problem would be that he HAD held down an honest job and did not understand the wheeler dealing required to succeed in the "real world" of business...

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Fri Dec 3rd, 2010 at 06:19:58 AM EST
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Re: Honest jobs (4.00 / 2)

Or that they are incompetent message-managers and the media eat them alive.

If they are competent, we complain of spin.

Of all the ways of organizing banking, the worst is the one we have today — Mervyn King, 25 October 2010

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 3rd, 2010 at 06:25:42 AM EST
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