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Thread: John Bruton won't give up his €138,000 a year pension

  1. 5th January 2012, 11:20 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Desperate Dan View Post
    It's past your bedtime, it's after 11, how are you going to get up for school in the morning. Did you do your homework, If you call to the library pick up a history book. Then read what the Donkey did in his tenure. EG. Fu#k the peace process. Read up on that.
    "Fukk the peace process"? - Can you link to where Bruton said that.
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  3. 5th January 2012, 11:20 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by ger12 View Post
    I'm no blueshirt, but I don't see the point in singling out brutal.

    Besides, the solution is very simple. Increase levies on these gold-plated payments.
    He is being "singled out" because he is a multi-millionaire working full time getting a 138k pension from the state when he is not even at retirement age while simultaneously calling for cutbacks for the rest of us. Where I come from we don't get a pension until we retire.
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  4. 5th January 2012, 11:21 PM #23
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    Quote Originally Posted by flavirostris View Post
    "Fukk the peace process"? - Can you link to where Bruton said that.
    He said it on a live radio interview in 1996 I think.
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  5. 5th January 2012, 11:27 PM #24
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    Quote Originally Posted by flavirostris View Post
    "Fukk the peace process"? - Can you link to where Bruton said that.
    Ask your Da.
    "Leadership is an opportunity to serve, it is not a trumpet call to self importance". Donald Waters.
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  6. 5th January 2012, 11:28 PM #25
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    Quote Originally Posted by Desperate Dan View Post
    Ask your Da.
    So you made it up then.
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  7. 5th January 2012, 11:29 PM #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by flavirostris View Post
    "Fukk the peace process"? - Can you link to where Bruton said that.
    Widely reported at the time. Bruton complained to a local radio reporter in Cork that "I am sick of answering questions about the fu.king peace process" when Taoiseach.
    Why did Minister Phil Hogan drop the independent review into planning irregularities within Dublin and Cork city councils and Carlow, Meath, Galway and Cork county councils ?
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  8. 5th January 2012, 11:29 PM #27
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    Quote Originally Posted by MacBeth View Post
    He said it on a live radio interview in 1996 I think.
    You are dead right, and then the donkey said he was misquoted. And it on live radio. That is the respect he had for the people he was supposed to be leader of. Then it was by default, thank god.
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  9. 5th January 2012, 11:32 PM #28
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    Quote Originally Posted by ger12 View Post
    Widely reported at the time. Bruton complained to a local radio reporter in Cork that "I am sick of answering questions about the fu.king peace process" when Taoiseach.
    That wasn't the quote Desperate Dan referred to.
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  10. 5th January 2012, 11:37 PM #29
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fellow View Post
    I'd agree totally with Bruton. The alternative is for him to take no role like the IFSC job and draw his pension without objection from all the begrudgers. How does that benefit Ireland?
    he wouldnt be working in the IFSC would be the benifit.
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  11. 5th January 2012, 11:38 PM #30
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    This site would be jumping up and down if a FF politician adopted the same attitude as John Bruton.

    I see no difficulty with the site highlighting FG/Lab politicians hypocrisy/lies/unpatriotic behaviour.

    In our current bankrupt economic state every instance of lucrative, gold plated arrangements like these, need to be exposed to public scrutiny.
    After all it's our money funding these payments.
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