Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week. Part the Second August 26, 2012
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Poor coordination with WBS on my part. Apologies.
Today seems to be have sympathy for the Quinn family day, as in here and here. Sometimes, the editorial decisions at that paper are so entirely stupid as to defy belief.
With the attention to detail for which he’s so justly famous, Marc Coleman offers us this
ADMIRATION for a genocidal maniac (Lenin) aside, Enda Kenny’s speech last Sunday was quite a good one.
Mentioning someone means admiring them now.
James Fitzsimons has an interesting take on what constitutes a business
When will anyone in Government take action to support private business and use their powers to make sure the rest do what is expected? We’ve had enough quangos that defend the administration and preserve the status quo. That’s why public spending is out of control and the national debt is more than we can ever hope to pay back.
The EU didn’t bail us out. Now it’s up to us. So let’s bankroll those who can generate cash and have done so already. If we spent half as much on recapitalising businesses that are hanging in there, as we did on the banks, our troubles would be over.
So giving all our money for generations to buy the debts of private banks doesn’t constitute supporting private business then? Good to know.
Jody Corcoran has discovered the worst thing about Enda Kenny’s speech last week.
At Beal na Blath last year, Brian Lenihan outlined three elements essential to the recovery, among them the need to ensure that credit was available for businesses and households.
Kenny is 18 months in office. Three days after his oration, the Central Bank laid bare the failure of his Government to meet this most basic element on the road to recovery.
There we are. The answer to our problems. Follow the Fianna Fáil economic path and all will be well. Oh, and it was of course 2010 and not last year that Lenihan spoke. If you’re going to make fun of Kenny’s Lenin howler, helps to do so in a piece where you have your own facts right.
Odd that Coleman omits the actual bit of admiration for a man who killed many. Yet we rarely get anything but rank hypocrisy from the Irish media and political class when it comes to the likes of Michael Collins.
Big time.
I have the suspicion that Marc’s confused Lenin with Stalin when I read that, actually (and wouldn’t surprise me).
“Poor coordination with WBS on my part. Apologies.”
No bother at all, even with two we only scratched the surface!
Just by the by, isn’t it interesting how the banks – as you rightly say – are seen as somehow (and very expediently and deliberately so) not being a part of Capital. Most of us would think of them as fundamentally intrinsic to it.
That’s a great point. It shows how mad the discourse on the right has become.
How did this get past the sub-editor responsible for maintaining a correct line:
Sure, in nominal terms our welfare payments do look high compared to EU norms. But when the basic cost of living is accounted for, the picture changes.
I think its also the case that welfare support in Ireland is almost all based on cash, with little by the way of social housing, community childcare, free schoolbooks, public primary healthcare etc. This means – in addition to your valid point – that it is easy to present the Irish welfare system as unusually generous when it is in fact anything but.
+1
Where is Gene Kerrigan?
And what have they done to him?
Two weeks in a row there’s been no Kerrigan column, I think.
Maybe they gave Kerrigan his cards?
Maybe he’s on holiday. I’d feel the need of a break from the Sindo, if I had to work there.
Dr.hon. peter sutherland s.c.$ gets gcd award!!!! because