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Today I joined the PDs,why you may ask?

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    #32
    bonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Originally posted by ReefBreak
    and the fact that PD voters were probably few and far between that day.

    Interesting choice of fact ;)

    jc


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    #33
    Von
    Closed Accounts Posts: 880 ✭✭✭Von


    Originally posted by ReefBreak
    Sorry, what? Different issue? Exactly how? It was a reponse to allegations that the Govt weren't acting on behalf of the public. According to the survery, they were acting on behalf of the public. Deal with it. As for the march, if you can seriously sit there and tell me it wasn't dominated by the left, then you're deluded. There were some of right-wing people of course - mostly extreme right, plus some clergy. But without a doubt, the most common placard was the Sinn Fein Hypocrite card, seconded by trade unions, labour and the various socialist loons

    The march was about supporting the UN and questioning the legality of invading Iraq, not Irish neutrality. Liz O'Donnell (PD TD) sez...
    The humanitarian impulse has always been non-political, and non-judgmental in regard to the victims of war, civilian and even combatants. Our International systems of humanitarian relief grew out of the disaster of the 2nd. World War and they have proven remarkably robust legally and operationally. The United Nations has always been at the centre of this system and it must remain so.
    Perhaps Liz represents the mainstream PD view a little more accurately than you do? And it's a bit odd that the shinners could only manage a couple of seats and the socialist loon parties could barely scrape a few hundred votes together at the election, then they could suddenly get 100,000 'supporters' from somewhere in a FF dominated city. Fascinating.
    I would gamble my life-savings that the majority of PDs voters supported the use of shannon by the US.
    The question was whether the use of Shannon by the US was constitutional or not. Your somewhat blinkered attitude appears to be 'I don't care about the constitution. Go USA!'. And the IT poll showed that the PD's only got 4% which places them and their spoilt tubby sub-yuppie support base squarely on the negligible lunatic fringe of Irish politics along with the Greens.


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    #34
    RainyDay
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    Bobby Molloy had the option to save their asses, but ended up doing the right thing.

    Not true, Reef - Bobby Molloy had no other option but to implement the Court decision that there should be no quantitative limit on the number of taxi drivers.

    The only options open to him related to the compo scheme, not the core issue of the number of drivers.


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    #35
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,411 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    [*] Reduction of Capital Gains Tax rate from 40% to 20% has encouraged greater investment in business activity generally.
    But I thought the PDs were against tax on work, why do rich wheeler-dealers pay tax at a lower rate than ordinary hard workers?

    [*] Minumum wage introduced by PD Leader Mary Harney in April 2002.
    At EU insistence?

    [*]The old-age pension target of £100 per week on track for new target of €200 per week.
    To make up for inflation

    [*]Massive increase for the funding of social services – health, education and welfare.
    Wasted on rich doctors.

    [*]Liberalised Dublin’s taxi market.
    In a chaotic manner.
    Originally posted by Sparks
    Both were the same campaign issue. The PD stated that they would act as a watchdog on FF. When FF made their decisions regarding those issues, they did so over public protest. The PD's job as watchdog is supposedly to act in the public's interest.
    God no, they are a watchdog for their supporters. :p
    Originally posted by Cork
    I saw an ad in a UK paper on Sunday stating the price of a product was 63p. In the shops yesterday in Ireland - it is retailing at 1.30 euro. The PDs must try and encourage cut price competion. There is a savere lack of competion in Ireland. The PDs have a market. It is not too differant to the middle class voters Rabbitte is trying to attract.
    They have been in government for what 6 years now and they haven't been able to get to grips with competition? And the latest news is the government is the main cause of inflation (a contributor to the phenomenon).


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