Constantin Gurdgiev has done a good (5 part) analysis on the Government’s Plan for Ireland. He concludes as follows:
This ‘plan’ is a classic example of “How to Destroy a Country in Five Easy Steps” guide:
Raise taxes in a recession;
Yield on everything to the narrow interest groups;
Spend precious taxpayers cash on feel-good Government waste;
Pile on more regulation and delegate democracy to an unelected group of public sector lobbyists;
Keep rolling back your previous promises and commitments (i.e Mr Lenihan’s repeated promises that he will not raise taxes)
If this is Mr Cowen’s way, his philosophy, would the last person leaving this country turn of the lights, please!
I think his analysis is pretty spot on. How very depressing!
Read the 5 posts and the rest of his blog at trueeconomics.blogspot.com/
Conan
And make sure they are CFL lights
T-B-M
January 29, 2009, 6:47pm
#3
He missed the most obvious one -
“Vote FF into power,
O yeah guys like Seanie Fitz love less regulation.
daltonr
January 30, 2009, 8:26pm
#5
I’m just trying to figure out how the Unions managed to become part of the Coalition government.
-Rd
five steps?!
f"£k that, here’s how you do it in one
put FF in power.
