All the euro did was open more credit to us and look how that turned out. The euro project was designed to have smaller nations like us indebted and controlled by the larger economies. Weāve enslaved ourselves to another master but the shills are happy talking about markets and gains and forecasts like it means something 
. It all comes at the cost of average people but fuck themā¦
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I wouldnāt disagree with you here . I am both E.U. and ā¬Euro sceptic . A dangerous enough project .
Itās Hermannās fault that Paddy wanted four properties in Bulgaria on the advice of Eddie Hobbs. 
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Sure the cops already have his statement on the dail record
Iām somewhere in there with you as wellā¦ But to hear @Biff_Egan, @count_of_monte_crist and @TheUlteriorMotive constantly preach about the Scandinavian model / economies and none of those joined the single market to protect themselves is bizarre given that the same lads are so passionate about the eurozone
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At Cheltenham,or is she better suited to the flat season
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No I meant sex Art
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Ireland is nothing like the Scandinavian model. Low earners there pay much more tax. And Finland is in Eurozone, Denmark is effectively pegged to the Euro, Norway is self sufficient due to its oil wealth so it boils down to a ābut Swedenā debate. Thatās for the Covid thread.
There are plenty of flaws in the Eurozone project, not least having a common monetary policy without fiscal integration. Irelandās problems in the crash were exacerbated by the EU having a monetary policy not suited for the level of growth in the Irish economy. But we were in control of our fiscal policy and Bertie was getting a huge electoral mandate to run an expansionary policy.
Once youāre in youāre in wrt the Euro. Greece were in a more perilous position and has ample opportunity to leave and chose not to. Ireland as an MNC EMEA hub would be insane to do so unless the entire thing was falling apart.
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Theyāre starting to slip sadly.
Shur half the employees in the MNCs are not from Ireland, particularly the more skilled positions. Foreigner workers on big salaries driving up rents and cost of livingā¦ What you really mean is the MNCs funneling their taxes through Ireland. Thatās what you really want.
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Disappointing nativism there. Plenty of MNC employees are Irish, not to mention the various suppliers and ancillary companies. Didnāt you work for Amazon?
Heās on with pat kenny soon. Donāt expect too many tough questions
Ah they do, but a lot of lower end jobs ā¦not that thereās anything wrong with that but Amazon employees 60/40 in favour of non irish , maybe even more. They have to with languagesā¦MNCs are fine, but theyāre not forever. Krupps and even more so Dell are lessons Iāll never forget. Itās a straw house and when it collapses it devastates the entire region.
Shur itās part of the spin. Pat is always first stop for official Ireland.
To be fair here Thomas - manufacturing is going east also there is more and more automation . That is a problem in all western societies .
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Pat will give him a good doing youād feel. No RTĆ bias on show
What are we doing to adapt kid?
UBI is probably where itās going. Weāre basically seeing a form of it now via the PUP.
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