Huge Protest Over Irish Economy

[BeatleBoot]

Run time: 01:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXgB4YgmmXI   Posted on YouTube: February 21, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 21, 2009 By DU Member: BeatleBoot Views on DU: 1217

 
It's global.

[earth mom]

1. I'm half Irish and I'm so proud of my people I could burst! Power to the people-not the rich!!!

:loveya:

[asphalt.jungle]

2. i thought every american company had plans to relocate there?

isn't that what mccain said? so low corporate tax rates don't solve every problem. damn.

[Cowpunk]

5. Of course!

Ireland is a conservative economic utopia, or so said conservatives up till now.

[midnight]

3. People are waking up.

[Lorien]

4. "We want the rich to be taxed" something you won't hear on the

American MSM. They're still working to prop up the wealthy and the big corporations.

[MindMatter]

7. We need to follow the Irish lead

Keep it simple. There are 3 things that need to change:

1) The people who created this crisis need to be put in jail.

2) Those who got wealthy on top of all this corruption should be paying their fair share of taxes to solve the problem.

3) And this is the most important. We must take control of our currency. For 100 years, the bankers have been able to create as much money as they want any time they want, with absolutely no government regulation or oversight. Take our currency back. Our money must be under the control of people accountable to voters.

[pollo poco]

6. It's Tough Over Here

I am living in Dublin right now. Things are grim. The bus drivers are scheduled to begin their strike on March 1. There is a lot more protesting here than in our country,which I think is for two reasons:

1. The news is not entirely owned by the oligarchs, so protests appear on TV.
2. The police don't mistreat the people.

I came to work and study here, but almost the minute I arrived, the whole thing started unraveling. The Irish are closely tied to the US, and their economic boom was built on the same quicksand as ours. My Irish landlady spent a month in San Francisco for her Christmas holiday, and she thinks that the US is worse off right now. This was sobering news to my roommates (German, Slovakian and Canadian), because they initially could not conceive of the idea that a Yank would stand a better chance in Ireland. (I am a dual national. I don't know how it would be for a non citizen coming over.)

The Irish culture is different than in the US as well. In response to the hard times, the landlady just reduced our rent! She feels especially bad for me, because she now understands why I fled to Ireland, and that returning to the US offers me little opportunity. Culturally, the Irish are very used to poverty, and have developed many attitudes that help them get through hard times. They do not waste any time blaming themselves or each other. Instead, they focus their anger on the wealthy people who did this to all of us.

[NorCalDem]

8. Yep!

And if we cut our corporate tax rate to 12% just like Ireland we could have increased deficits AND still get a recession! See what a good deal that is Republicans!!

:sarcasm: