Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week August 19, 2012
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Again Garibaldy is on leave. So in the meantime the floor is open to any contributions people think appropriate. But to start the ball rolling let’s have a little quiz. Match the names to the quotes:
A) Marc Coleman
B) John-Paul McCarthy.
C) Ruth Dudley Edwards
1: Fears that it is eroding “Cabinet power” are, by the way, unfounded. Almost unique in the Western world, ours is a Government dominated exclusively by the Cabinet and second only to our national disease of groupthink: it was this and the insane decisions made under social partnership that led to rampant growth in public spending and private borrowing.
2: A Romney government would abolish Obamacare, save Medicare from going broke and look after granny. The US needs to rediscover the self-reliance and can-do that made it great, rather than allowing big government to wreck its national ethos and economy.
3: And even though the Harris-Edwards-Myers faction helped upend about 150 years of settled prejudice unaided, the British Embassy seemed to forget about them during the Queen’s visit, the very visit that their work made possible!
Bonus points for the obligatory mention of Daniel Corkery in the JP McCarthy piece. Another round of Sindo Bingo.
“No other citizen of the Republic did more than Eoghan Harris to sustain the moderate faction within Ulster unionism during the Nineties ”
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“Hey, man, you don’t talk to Eoghan Harris. You listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he’ll… uh… well, you’ll say “hello” to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you. He won’t even notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in a corner, and he’ll say, “Do you know that ‘if’ is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you”… I mean I’m… no, I can’t… I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s… he’s a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas… “
Class.
One thing I noticed reading it was Maeve Sheehan’s piece on Barnardo’s which was a non too subtle attack on Croke Park. Thing was there was an interesting contradiction at the heart of the article where she sotto voce lauded Barnardo’s for not having to work by the proscriptions of CP and make staff redundant, not pay increments (though God knows hard to believe they’d break the organisation) and yet at the end had to admit…
Despite its drastic action, Barnardos’ financial future is precarious. The charity will learn in the autumn whether its state funding — already cut by 15 per cent in two years — will be reduced again.
RDE seems to think it unfair that “hostile media … mercilessly exposed her lack of intellectual depth, knowledge of a wider world and occasional flakiness.” She is talking about Sarah Palin.
All too typical for him, Coleman simply swallows the Republican line without qualification. The Trustees of Medicare published that medicare will be bankrupt in 2024 if nothing else changes. This was the same projected date as last year. The reason the date has not been extended is because of the stagnant economy. During the 70s, Medicare projected insolvency in as little as 4 years. Yet it still exists. If nothing changes and the Trust Fund reserves are depleted by 2024, medicare will still receive enough from payroll taxes to cover 87% of anticipated hospital expenses.