I think if Ireland became independent from the Euro you'd see conditions on their streets reminiscent of the great potato famine.
The Irish economy makes the British economy look healthy. Ireland has no choice than to live off others, their economy is a complete and utter joke - some things never change.
Well you touch upon the truth by saying the private sector comes under pressure, you're right it does. This is because private eveterprise does, and has to, compete to survive.
It's this that makes me resent public sector union overactivity even more, because private sector worker's already take upon a greater share of the burden.
But at the end of the day I see my country in trouble, and i think that all members of society, rich or poor, needs to do more for less, and America is in the same boat.
How do you explain the disparity between sick days in the private and public sector? - private sector workers are not sacked for being ill(we're in the 21st centruy). How do you explain the level of sick days the workforce takes as a whole today compared to in the 1950's? And my people were not so bed-ridden with illness when the Luftwaffe were dropping bombs on England every night.
The British public sector annual average for sick days is something like 10 days. Now i'm not bed-bound for 10 days every year, my family members aren't bed-bound for 10 days every year. My friends(besides the skivers)aren't bed-bound for 10 days every year.
I think it's the everest of naivety to think people don't skive off work.
And my Dad was a shop steward in the steel industry in the 1980's, he personally led several strikes against Thatcher and Thatcher's police put him in hospital - Not everyone who doesn't agree with the Left, like me, is a heartless Right-winger.
The perks of working in the public sector over the private sector are notorious - I even hear that in the US there is a scheme where public sector workers can receive money for taking less sick days than expected. This despite the fact that sick rates amongst the public sector are far higher than in the private sector.
Don't you think it's unfair on private sector workers for public sector workers to have it any easier than they do already?
The public sector is publicly funded, public funds come from the taxpayer - the employer of all public sector workers is indirectly the taxpayer. So when they strike they're striking against us, not a corporate fat cat.
You're right in saying that Iran isn't behind the Democracy movement, believing they are really is just Right-wing paranoia, but claiming it as a moral victory for Obama, I think you're pushing it with that one.
Depends how you handle getting hurt I suppose. Sometimes going through tough times yourself can make you more empathetic towards others, or it may have the opposite effect.
Free enterprise is a luxury born out of having plenty of resources/land etc, to begin with - hence America being known as the "land of plenty". If you're rich you can afford to risk the inherent failures that do come with free enterprise, under testing circumstances you can't afford the gamble.
If a group of people has few of a necessities of life, then you've no other option than to collectivise, things need to be carefully cultivated and managed, you simply can't succeed without planning.
When you look at nature you'll see animals behaving the same way. When food is scarce or they are threatened by a predator the animals will adhere closer to the pack, during easier times they'll be much more individual.
If Capitalism is freedom then Socialism is order - you need to utilise both of these rationally according to the facts of today.
Unfortunately free enterprise speeches are years out-of-date. Competition is intensifying all over the world, to think we can regain our old position through going back to our old ways is an illusion.
However, the collapse of the productive, private sector in the West has resulted from outsourcing, and outsourcing is motivated by business profit.
The impertus behind and the very reason why the financial sector is so strong in the West today is precisely because the productive sector barely exists in comparison - their is no real strength within productive Capitalism to check against the strength of financial Capitalism.
Basically, my opinion is that Western economics overall had become deluded by the "easy money" derived from our international free-for-all, and that subsequently it has been neglecting its own domestic market.
I can't really say I blame her - how dry would the world be if everybody loved politics? I probably prefer that most of my mates switch over when the news comes on.
Obama, Bush, the last ten years, it's only a part of the tale. You need to look beyond at the intricate weaving of events that have allowed a situation so corrupt to arise.
If all this corruption is the effect of an economy where the banks as well as the state are too large and powerful, what has been the cause of this?
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RE: Irish "bailout" and voters
I think if Ireland became independent from the Euro you'd see conditions on their streets reminiscent of the great potato famine.The Irish economy makes the British economy look healthy. Ireland has no choice than to live off others, their economy is a complete and utter joke - some things never change.