Merkel and Barroso promote compliant Irish Government (Updated) | 28 comments (28 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: A military coup in Ireland? (none / 1)

No, no, no, Frank. A "military coup" is when the military refuses to use tanks to crush an IMF riot.

Obviously, that danger is present as long as the Fianna Fail or Fine Gael are in government - because they might be stupid enough to both provoke an IMF riot and order it crushed.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Feb 17th, 2011 at 12:01:43 AM EST
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Re: A military coup in Ireland? (none / 1)

See my Barroso to plebes: nice indebted democracy you have there... on June 17th, 2010.

"I had a discussion with Barroso last Friday about what can be done for Greece, Spain, Portugal and the rest and his message was blunt: 'Look, if they do not carry out these austerity packages, these countries could virtually disappear in the way that we know them as democracies. They've got no choice, this is it'."

Barroso is EPP, too.

Keynesianism is intellectually hard, as evidenced by the inability of many trained economists to get it - Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 17th, 2011 at 02:49:10 AM EST
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Merkel and Barroso promote compliant Irish Government (Updated) | 28 comments (28 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)