Archive for the ‘Analysis’ Category

BACON – a selfish “ham”

July 22, 2009

Economist Peter Bacon’s call for the statutory minimum wage to be cut reveals his  inhuman and viciously callous attitude towards  the poorest of the poor of the country’s workforce.

The self-styled “respected economic expert” never has a difficulty himself, charging obscene fees for his services of economic forecasting, writing and compiling various economic development plans and reports and doling out “expert” economic analysis and advice (much of it for local and national government) that guarantees him easy money from public purse. 

Like Colm McCarthy the other freeloaders and parasites that comprise An Bord Snip Nua and called for dole payments to be cut, all these individuals truly have necks as hard as the proverbial “jockey’s bollocks”. They belong to a class that has absolutely no problem living the “high life” funded by the State (i.e. the taxpayer) from the various economic quangos they routinely manage to get themselves co-opted onto.

Where was Bacon and his ilk when the residential property lobby (the land speculators, developers, the banks and the auctioneering fraternity) were racketeering and profiteering the national pension reserve fund out of existance? No calls for cuts to the profiteering or a stop to the racketeering there. In fact Bacon was publicly and brazenly dismissing the handful of genuinely respectable individuals who DID, forewarn of the consequenses of the so-called property boom. 

The damage done to the lives of ordinary working people (and Irish society generally) by those who inflated the residential property bubble, and those complicit in it’s inflation through their deafening silence, will be deeper and more widespread than the misery inflicted on the country and society by the drug barons and organised crime gangs.

Some “respected” economist, indeed, is Mr Bacon! – more like a free-loading, parasitic and selfish HAM.

THE NORTHSIDE RAILWAY STATION CON

May 17, 2009

The politically fashionable demand for a second (north) Drogheda railway station would, if it was conceded, add massively to peak rush-hour vehicular traffic on either the Newfoundwell or Ballymakenny Roads – depending where the mooted railhead was located. (more…)

LISBON – threat and treaty, nothing new

December 15, 2008

In the very first “exercise in democracy” in the newly established Irish Free State, the people of Ireland went to the polls to vote in the 1923 General Election, crystal clear in the knowledge that if W.T. Cosgrave’s “pro-Treaty” Cumann Na Gael failed to get elected as the new government, Britain would unleash it’s military might on the country, in what Downing Street solemnly promised would be a “terrible war”. (more…)

Lisbon Treaty is now a dead letter

July 28, 2008

The Sunday Times Red C poll (published yesterday July 27th) confirms what the Socialist Party has been saying since the June referendum, that is that a re-run of the the poll on the so-called Lisbon Treaty would result in an even greater majority of the public voting against.

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Bin Taxes – Drogheda’s political users & abusers

July 3, 2008

The more clued-in sections of the public were sickened by the hypocritical chorus of condemnation from Drogheda’s local Fianna Fail and Fine Gael political representatives following the announcement by the Panda private refuse collection company that they were to “do away with” their tag charging system, thereby increasing significantly (by stealth) refuse charges to a significant section of their customer base.

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Increasing Bin Taxes – the real culprits

June 27, 2008

LMFM radio’s “Loosetalk” programme today (Friday) devoted much air time to the understandable public anger at the decision by the Panda private waste collection company to do away with their “Tag” system and consequently, by stealth, massively increase their bin collection charges.

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Recession – when was there an economic boom???

June 27, 2008

This week’s “official confirmation” from the ESRI that Ireland’s economy was now in recession stands common sense and ordinary intelligence on it’s head. Talk of Ireland going into recession pre- assumes that, up to now, everything was “apple pie” with the country’s free-market capatilist economy which clearly was never the case. (more…)