FACT: If the Rugby World Cup was based on economic growth, Ireland would win hands down #IREvARG #ShoulderToShoulder pic.twitter.com/3j9YabKWrY
— Fine Gael (@FineGael) October 18, 2015
Puca writes:
Cringeworthy stuff from FG.
Everything. As It Happens.
Mildly cringeworthy, but no more cringeworthy than the vast majority of political communication.
Is it true?
Youngfg apologist.
This is beyond tiresome.
There are many reasons to dislike FG or disagree with FG or even be cynical about their motives.
I am, however, completely at a loss about what is particularly egregious about this fluffy piece of political advertising.
At least this time FG can only really peddle themselves as the best formed stool in the bottom of the pot, rather than as a “democratic revolution”.
of course when Ireland was producing charts like this in 2006 it was “fully sustainable” and then in the crash of 2008 people claimed there were no warning signs! this chart is another warning sign.
+1
Why don’t they do a graph for homeless per capita. I bet we’d win that one as well!
Actually we wouldn’t. Not by a long shot. Despite being peddled as some humanitarian crisis by the €106 million Euro Homeless industry Ireland has lower numbers sleeping rough then England, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal and pretty much any country that has stats in the EU.
http://www.feantsaresearch.org/IMG/pdf/feantsa-studies_04-web2.pdf
We need to massively reduce funding to the homeless industry and increase funding for pyschiatric/drug services as well as Social Welfare Officers. The real joke is that there are more people employed in homeless services then homeless. And TBH the recent search in idiots entering the sector means that those with chronic drug and alcohol addiction can put 100% of their income against their habit while living as comfortable a life as an addict will want. To put it mildly, the homeless industry in a self serving way are making the problem worse.
Surge in idiots…
Yes, but the place is still managed like a dodgy used car dealership.
Fact: if me auntie had balls she’d be me uncle. Wtf?
They should put up another for ‘fastest widening divide between rich and poor’ too.
We’re the best at that now like.
+1
HashtagTheBestSmallCountryInTheWorldInWhichToLiveInASleepingBag
Do you remember when we were the richest nation in Europe? How was that for you?
Except it is not true that we have ‘fastest widening divide between rich and poor’.
Our Gini coefficient is reducing.
Oh look FG are hopping on the rugby bandwagon.
Thats probably why the wheels fell off..
Well, we might have the fastest expanding stock market, thanks to millionaires (the only ones with the collateral) borrowing freshly quantitatively eased cash at low interest rates from Mario Draghi and his magic printing press and then blowing it all on stocks and stock by backs from their own companies. Then the stock market gets so pumped with money that it drags up all the economic data. That’s not a recovery and that’s not growth. And when you print bucket loads of Euros lend them out it devalues the Euros already in the system. More euros chasing the same amount of goods leads to inflation (note prices up 40% for so many goods since 2007). And Euro inflation is another form of tax on people holding Euros. So in the end you end up with stats that you can spin into a recovery and fast growth, but on the ground there’s no recovery. In fact things are getting worse for the poorer sections of society and better for the wealthier.