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    #32
    alegrabaroque
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭alegrabaroque


    Darragh29 you go first, then Lizzykins and I`ll follow shortly just finishing my sign "down with this sort of thing"!


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    #33
    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    And I'd be the first to stand up and protest. I know well we have to be positive and work to get out of this, but we are being dragged deeper and deeper into the sh*ts every day with this government. Look at the news tonight. Social Welfare spending will rise by 3.6 Billion Euro this year.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0423/breaking58.htm

    Only 2 weeks ago, this government tried to save 1.5 billion in spending and take in another 1.5 billion in tax. Not two weeks have gone by and the increase in social welfare spending this year has already negated any benefit that those tax increases and spending cuts two weeks ago might have had.

    So we are right back where we were on the morning of the 7th April budget. I'm not being dramatic or alarmist, just look at the figures!!!


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    #34
    alegrabaroque
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭alegrabaroque


    What can we do legally?
    How would we organise a protest?


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    #35
    Dr Galen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,373 ✭✭✭Dr Galen


    get out our crayons, make a few signs, start marching from Swords and see who joins in. :)

    the comment about the Irish not having outrage is true. We have a history of burying our heads in the sand, letting the world go by. The people won't do anything, which is why our governments have so much power. No matter who we vote in, it'll stay the same. Like many other educated people in this country, once we see recovery in other places, i.e the US, Oz,even the UK, we'll seriously consider leaving. It's sad but its true


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    #36
    alegrabaroque
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭alegrabaroque


    Ah they always join in when other people start, they just don`t want to be the one to start.

    The Government are making things worse and worse thou someone has to do something. There is no human element to politics thou. Ever little thing you say will be shredded (much like here).

    Much like here they need to be in a nameless faceless crowd to be confident.

    Someones got to stand up...I`m naive enough to walk blindly into a house of daggers.


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