View Poll Results: Will next weeks budget be severe enough?

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Thread: McDaid to vote against budget if it is not 'severe enough': TV3

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    Quote Originally Posted by an asal View Post
    Poor McDaid is driving on the wrong side of the" motorway" again
    Yes - maybe for the first time in history we might have a FF politician who puts the good of the country before the good of FF...

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    No offence to the OP, I can see why it was posted, but this poll is a little pointless on 2 counts:

    It's biased as it implies the budget will not be severe enough, and that the budget must be severe (obviously, it needs to be, but is that severe for our times or severe in the context of the past two decades? This is ambiguous).

    Also it makes a prediction about a budget we have not seen ... so wouldn't it be a better idea to do this after the budget is released?
    Ie, Is the budget severe enough?

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    Agree with NM 123 - How can you poll on this question?
    Severe against who ?
    McDaid when commenting following his "Tá" on the budget will state " The Minister got the balance right"
    Mammy, get the hammer there's a fly on daddy's head.

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    Severe on who?The ordinary middle class Joe Blogg,who is trying to keep the wolf from the door,while the rest of these Politicos insulate themselves against it.
    A champion of the people emerges with the age-old and appealing promise of "something for nothing" - to be financed through every-increasing taxes. Supply and demand are thrown out of gear - the overhead goes up; the effective use of human energy goes down; the standard of living is lowered because money cannot buy wealth that is not produced.

    WEAVER, HENRY GRADY,

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    Quote Originally Posted by Right is right View Post
    Yes - maybe for the first time in history we might have a FF politician who puts the good of the country before the good of FF...
    In fairness to him, he's done that before, when he resigned as Minister for Defence after FG claimed he was in the IRA (or some such nonsense).
    A demagogue is someone who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

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    they are now trying to ut do each other to take cuts and seem like saving the countries finances. gas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NM_123 View Post
    No offence to the OP, I can see why it was posted, but this poll is a little pointless on 2 counts:
    I did not attach a poll to the thread. Dave or a mod must have done that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Right is right View Post
    Yes - maybe for the first time in history we might have a FF politician who puts the good of the country before the good of FF...
    I doubt it somehow, Jim McDaid generally puts Jim McDaid first

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    Thank you Deputy McDaid.

    We need 6 billion or we are bankrupt.

    What the Labour party is doing is treasonable.
    Liquidate labour, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobert View Post
    He won't be standing again after this and I believe the whip has lost control of him so what has he to loose by being honest with the people?
    Nail on the head Award
    I watched with glee, while your kings and queens, fought for ten decades for the gods they made.

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