Comments on The State of the Nation: McCarthy, MacGill, McJob

I have to agree that Ireland is still a developing...

2009-07-31T12:15:59.292+01:00

I have to agree that Ireland is still a developing economy; the only difference is that now we have lots of private tolled motorways (built at the EU's cost), lots of empty hotels built in the middle of nowhere and massive personal and public debt. Awesome.

The point about Boston v Berlin is merely an ideological one: Do we want to be more like the US which mistakenly believes

'As it turns out, moving our economy closer to Bos...

2009-07-28T10:18:58.462+01:00

'As it turns out, moving our economy closer to Boston than Berlin may not have been the wisest move for all bar a very small few in the country.'
I'm surprised you quoted the myth that the Irish economy has something in common with Boston or Berlin. Boston is one of the richest cities in the world's richest economy. Despite the US economies problems, its big enough to bail

"surely the free marketeers should concur, it they...

2009-07-26T14:44:40.949+01:00

"surely the free marketeers should concur, it they are true to what they say they believe in."

You would imagine so GM, but the PD's have been the moral compass of free-marketeerism in this coutry and they are more than happy to socialise loss in the form of bank guarantees, re-capitalisation and government bailouts, if it suits people that they find important (i.e. the

"The vast majority of these people are not, contra...

2009-07-24T09:09:15.953+01:00

"The vast majority of these people are not, contrary what they believe themselves, self made. They were never hungry growing up, were well educated and were put through University by their parents. That already puts them in the economic top 10% in the world. They have no moral authority to reduce the minimum wage, nor any reasonable economic justification."

Good point, and