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iamtechus Donating Member (868 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 06:10 PM
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SERIOUS QUESTION: Would you rather bail out Ireland or ....
continue the war on afghanistan for three more years?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331690/Ireland-bailout-Banks-brink-collapse.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

'Banks in Ireland 'on brink of collapse'

* AIB and BoI owe over €100bn to foreign investors and fear another run on deposits could destroy them

* The Irish Central Bank is keeping them afloat after ECB said: ‘We won’t lend you any more’ Collapse would trigger €440bn bank guarantee... but IMF has option of locking the banks’ doors.

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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 06:12 PM
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1. Or create a job for an Irish emigrant
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 06:52 PM
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2. I bet the Irish are sorry they gave up the Punt for the Euro now.
Edited on Sun Nov-21-10 06:55 PM by roamer65
Here is a prime example where overly tight German monetary policy is hurting another EU member.

The Brits I bet are happy as hell they stayed out of the Euro.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 06:57 PM
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3. Neither. The Irish Central Bank is not Ireland, it is a bank and as such,
is completely expendable.

Needless to say, the ongoing mass-murder in Afghanistan should be stopped immediately.


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iamtechus Donating Member (868 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 08:05 PM
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4. Either option requires that we pay billions (trillions?) to the elites.
Paying the bankers involves much less human suffering and death than paying the war profiteers.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 08:26 PM
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5. Thus my vote for neither.
:kick::hi:

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TorchTheWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 09:30 PM
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6. this is Ireland's problem
I don't recall any countries contemplating bailing us out, and we already got shit on buying out our own crook banksters.

What kind of question is this?


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