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About LinkBacksAnyone see Adams on Prime Time on SF economics tonight.
The poor man was so obviously out of his depth - could not spell out the specifics of his own party policy, the amount SF wanted to save or spend.
SF have a real real problem here.
Anyone see Adams on Prime Time on SF economics tonight.
The poor man was so obviously out of his depth - could not spell out the specifics of his own party policy, the amount SF wanted to save or spend.
SF have a real real problem here.
Hush!Originally Posted by DaveDublin
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Yeah, he was on the defensive a lot, didn't give a clear outline of what he was going to do, didn't give any estimates. We know what FF and SF have in common-they wont give a figure for what they're going to do!
SF will have to radically shed their economic fig leafs if they are ever to climb into bed with FF.Yeah, he was on the defensive a lot, didn't give a clear outline of what he was going to do, didn't give any estimates. We know what FF and SF have in common-they wont give a figure for what they're going to do!
Trouble is what else have they got left now to distinguish them from FF anyway?
It's certainly not the North!
How long before the Merger folks?
How did that 70's song go?
Reunited and it feels so good... :wink:
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Let's be fair here, SF are not about economic interests.
They're about patriotism.
FF know about money, in all it's forms.
SF know about patriotism.
Together we have a good patriotic/ economic Government and what's better than that?????
After that I better not hear any Shinner complain about FG's lack of policy or policy development. He was terrible, he didn't have a clue what he was talking about it. He clearly doesn't understand simple economics. Ireland doesn't have all this money, he thinks it does. The government is wasting a lot of money, but not that much. It really shows us that SF is really a one policy party.
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The title of this thread has the word bonkers in it, just like your contribution.SF will have to radically shed their economic fig leafs if they are ever to climb into bed with FF.Yeah, he was on the defensive a lot, didn't give a clear outline of what he was going to do, didn't give any estimates. We know what FF and SF have in common-they wont give a figure for what they're going to do!
Trouble is what else have they got left now to distinguish them from FF anyway?
It's certainly not the North!
How long before the Merger folks?
How did that 70's song go?
Reunited and it feels so good... :wink:
If you believe that there is no difference between SF and FF on the north you obviously have not heard any of the contributions from both parties on the SF Dáil motion on unity. (MILES APART)
As for a merger - BONKERS
As for Adams performance - I think his answer on how much money SF could save on spending if in givernment was an honest one. How can anyone, without access to the full exchequer figures provide such an answer. Its like asking how long is a piece of string.
I doubt anyone outside of the corriders of power have any idea how much money is being wasted by government departments. We have however an indication of some of that ie the electronic voting fiasco and the botched health computer system. The question is what do we not yet know about. So to be fair to Adams how could he be qualified to give such an answer. I would not.
Hmm, interesting. Well can you explain then a chara, how is it that the government has €2billion extra in tax and VAT returns and government departments have underspent by a billion. And this when you consider all rampant tax evasion (sorry avoidance) schemes that exist.
I didn't see the programme, I don't need to see Gerry Adams open his mouth to know that the Shinners are economically ignorant( with the exception of some on here). The problem they have is that they are only able to speak with any degree of assurance about northern issues. If Cowen, Bruton, Rabbitte or McDowell took on Adams in a debate on economics in the week before an election he would be toast.
So you're accepting that Sinn Fein are a single-issue party? That'll put a brake on their growth, of course.....
I must say I found Adams highly entertaining - his complete lack of anything resembling a knowledge of economics was hilarious. And O'Caolain's blurb about the evils of private property was extremely strange, given the deep-rooted attachment Irish people have to owning their own homes - for historical reasons that SF never tire of telling us about. (The Famine, the Land Wars, etc)
I'm looking forward to telling soft FF voters on the doorsteps that their putative coalition partners support raising corporation tax, tripling the tax on the banks, taxing earners of over 100,000 at a rate of 50%, raising CGT, etc etc. Oh, and withdrawing from the euro, and having a single, All-Ireland currency. Fan-tastic!!
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