So Bertie launches his book all about the wonderful fellow he is and how he brought prosperity to the country and all dat!
He had only left the job when the place fell into disarray! Jaayus! You can't trust anyone else with doing your job - they'll only make a balls of it! You have to do it yourself!
The little rat was on the Late Late Show recently, muttering about how he would have done things differently and inferring if he was in power, we would all be living in gilded prosperity.
This from the asshole that blew 10 years of massive tax income and blew it all on the public service unions and his vanity projects. Now he wants to be President! Well at least he'll have no power in that role but we would be some bunch of fools to allow him into the house in the Park.
He and his cronies have created an Ireland that has a divided society and cooked up the perfect recipe for a revolution. And a revolution there will be - have no doubt!
When it happens, the first house that should be burned is the one Bertie didn't pay for in Drumcondra. The second one should be wherever that bearded binman of a union leader, Jack O'Connor, lives.
Then again, knowing the form of Bertie in having a love affair with the unions, you might be lucky enough to find the pair of them in the one house in the one bed!
It would save a bit of petrol in these recessionary times!
Showing posts with label Ireland Politics. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Friday, February 29, 2008
INSULAR IRELAND IS ALIVE AND WELL !
I love elections. Not just Irish elections - but elections on a global scale. Democracy is a fragile soul – a waif-like creature who is only allowed to give her blessings to one third of the worlds estimated six billion populations.
For that, we should be both grateful and ashamed. Grateful for what we have in democracy for all of its faults. Ashamed that as a member of the United Nations, we participate in a sham of so-called representation of all the worlds sovereign states, and yet allow five of the great powers dominate and control the agenda. An agenda that is designed to ensure that democracy will never will never reach the remaining four billion people on the planet.
I could go on about the United Nations and the veil of silk it wears to hide the running sores but you probably would get as completely pissed off reading about it as we do writing about it.
Instead, let us focus on the American primaries for the US presidential elections in November. It is certainly one of the most exciting races in years, particularly the Democratic nomination contest. Anti-post favourite, Hillary Clinton, looks in grave danger of being caught on the final uphill furlong by Obama. John McCain on the Republican side looks home and dry having at one point early in the campaign being on the verge of quitting because of lack of funding.
So what does all of this mean for us here in Ireland?
A good friend of mine surprised me during the week when questioned about his views on the US elections. He claimed to have no interest in them at all, stating that we had enough to do about running our own country to be wasting time watching the Americans go through their admittedly torturous procedure of electing their President.
The reason for our surprise was that this was intelligent guy who ran his own business, which supplied outsourced computer services to about ten multi-national companies in the medical and pharmaceutical fields. Eight of the ten companies were American!
Yet this businessman professed no interest whatsoever in the policies or promises of any candidate in relation to Ireland. He felt that once the peace process in the North had settled in there would be no interest in Ireland by American politicians, as they had no gains to make by making Ireland an issue.
If he had taken the time to study the matter, he would realize that the opposite is true. Ireland is an issue but not in the beneficial sense. Hillary Clinton has long promised that if she gets into power she will impose a 30% tax on American multi-nationals who base themselves in low tax environments to avoid paying US taxes.
Any American companies based in Ireland only pay 12.5% tax on profits to the Irish state coffers at present and none in the US as there is a place a bi-lateral taxation agreement in place between the two countries.
Whether Clinton is elected or not will not matter. The US is heading into deep recession and whether it is McCain or Obama who occupies the Oval office instead of Clinton, making wealthy foreign-based companies pay more tax at home is a popular proposal.
American companies are well known for artificially boosting their profits in a low tax regime such as Ireland. If they are going to be hit with a 30% tax on those profits this country will suddenly become a much less attractive place to do business.
The grey suits in these companies will do the numbers and arrive at a cold ruthless conclusion; there are better places to be than here.
I thinks it is time that our good friend starting taking a more active interest in American politics!
For that, we should be both grateful and ashamed. Grateful for what we have in democracy for all of its faults. Ashamed that as a member of the United Nations, we participate in a sham of so-called representation of all the worlds sovereign states, and yet allow five of the great powers dominate and control the agenda. An agenda that is designed to ensure that democracy will never will never reach the remaining four billion people on the planet.
I could go on about the United Nations and the veil of silk it wears to hide the running sores but you probably would get as completely pissed off reading about it as we do writing about it.
Instead, let us focus on the American primaries for the US presidential elections in November. It is certainly one of the most exciting races in years, particularly the Democratic nomination contest. Anti-post favourite, Hillary Clinton, looks in grave danger of being caught on the final uphill furlong by Obama. John McCain on the Republican side looks home and dry having at one point early in the campaign being on the verge of quitting because of lack of funding.
So what does all of this mean for us here in Ireland?
A good friend of mine surprised me during the week when questioned about his views on the US elections. He claimed to have no interest in them at all, stating that we had enough to do about running our own country to be wasting time watching the Americans go through their admittedly torturous procedure of electing their President.
The reason for our surprise was that this was intelligent guy who ran his own business, which supplied outsourced computer services to about ten multi-national companies in the medical and pharmaceutical fields. Eight of the ten companies were American!
Yet this businessman professed no interest whatsoever in the policies or promises of any candidate in relation to Ireland. He felt that once the peace process in the North had settled in there would be no interest in Ireland by American politicians, as they had no gains to make by making Ireland an issue.
If he had taken the time to study the matter, he would realize that the opposite is true. Ireland is an issue but not in the beneficial sense. Hillary Clinton has long promised that if she gets into power she will impose a 30% tax on American multi-nationals who base themselves in low tax environments to avoid paying US taxes.
Any American companies based in Ireland only pay 12.5% tax on profits to the Irish state coffers at present and none in the US as there is a place a bi-lateral taxation agreement in place between the two countries.
Whether Clinton is elected or not will not matter. The US is heading into deep recession and whether it is McCain or Obama who occupies the Oval office instead of Clinton, making wealthy foreign-based companies pay more tax at home is a popular proposal.
American companies are well known for artificially boosting their profits in a low tax regime such as Ireland. If they are going to be hit with a 30% tax on those profits this country will suddenly become a much less attractive place to do business.
The grey suits in these companies will do the numbers and arrive at a cold ruthless conclusion; there are better places to be than here.
I thinks it is time that our good friend starting taking a more active interest in American politics!
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