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In reply to the discussion: Any DUers living in Ireland? Is this story true? [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)56. Ireland does have the highest birth rate in the EU..
http://www.ionainstitute.ie/index.php?id=1539
I haven't driven across Ireland but I've driven across SC several times, it takes less than half a day, neither is a very big place, hard to get the economies of scale you can on a continent on a small divided island.
I haven't driven across Ireland but I've driven across SC several times, it takes less than half a day, neither is a very big place, hard to get the economies of scale you can on a continent on a small divided island.
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I am not an expert but I took it to mean that you got fifty euro in ADDITION to your welfare money
MADem
Apr 2012
#1
Really pushing that "FDR" thing, there. This kind of scheme actually *encourages* businesses *not*
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#16
Not if they have to change out staff every nine months--and this is a TWO YEAR program.
MADem
Apr 2012
#44
I told you already. They should do what Iceland did. And I did not call you an asshole so stop lying
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#63
It didn't help unemployment--and that's what the subject matter is in this thread, in case you are
MADem
Apr 2012
#75
Sigh. If Ireland hadn't wasted that money on bank bailouts they could have fixed unemployment
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#76
But....but....but....the problem isn't public jobs--it's those EVIL corporations, hiring at slave
MADem
Apr 2012
#81
There you go with that "implied" shit again. I do not "imply." I do not accuse. I do not suggest.
MADem
Apr 2012
#99
Oh, really? Then why did you even bring up the government bailing out the banks?
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#105
Go back--I didn't bring up the banks at all--I asked a question after YOU brought up the banks.
MADem
Apr 2012
#106
Yes--AFTER that. You brought them up. I simply asked AFTER you brought them up in the first place.
MADem
Apr 2012
#115
Wait a minute--you said you didn't bring up banks, and now you are demanding I respond to questions
MADem
Apr 2012
#118
YOU ACCUSED ME of suggesting Ireland pay for those private debts. I DEMAND to know why.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#119
I accused you of NOTHING. I asked you questions. That's not accusing. And the only reason I asked
MADem
Apr 2012
#122
Yes, YOU DID ACCUSE ME of suggesting Ireland pay for those private debts. I DEMAND to know why.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#125
Yes, YOU DID ACCUSE ME of suggesting Ireland pay for those private debts. I DEMAND to know why.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#128
You have refuted nothing. You falsely accused me with your so-called "question".
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#132
I can and will go on forever. You did accuse me. You are running away from what you said.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#136
Wrong, again. Keep it up, though--this is a great record of your behavior for future reference. nt
MADem
Apr 2012
#147
You have convinced us all that you have an intimate understanding of that subject.
MADem
Apr 2012
#151
By bailing out the banks, what started as a financial crisis became a sovereign debt crisis and was
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#85
It means that taxpayers subsidize employers, who get at least 30 hours of work for the equivalent
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#5
WPA did useful work and paid a living wage. It was a public works program, not a cheap labor
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#13
You seem to be not understanding that they are getting both their welfare check and this stipend.
MADem
Apr 2012
#33
I understand quite well that they're getting their UNEMPLOYMENT benefit and this "stipend".
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#36
If you actually think every person who built that thing worked in the building trades for a living,
MADem
Apr 2012
#47
Wow. Awesomely hateful responses. Interesting. Must be that "working class" thing.
saras
Apr 2012
#4
No they aren't. They are saying if you WANT to work, to gain experience in a shitty economy with
MADem
Apr 2012
#11
In an economy with high unemployment, doing an unpaid or low-paid internship still leaves you
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#15
This is not what FDR did, not at all, and repeating that mendacity will not make it more
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2012
#24
It reminds me of the Georgia Works program and Bridge to Work in the American Jobs Act. nt
Liquorice
Apr 2012
#6
You're the second person who compared this program to FDR's programs. It must be the new
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#14
As a person with a relative in a WPA job and a CCC camp in our neck of the woods, I beg to differ.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#19
Your interlocutors are certainly misrepresenting the wage structure of the New Deal programs
alcibiades_mystery
Apr 2012
#22
$25 was the average rent for a HOUSE in 1937. You could rent a flat for considerably less.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#60
Unlike yourself, I've linked evidence to support my claims. Not to mention that the rent your
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#78
I've provided links that you've ignored, and of COURSE you won't be responding to me further!
MADem
Apr 2012
#80
Temper? Oh no--I'm simply plainspoken. Tick tock, now--waiting on your answers to all those
MADem
Apr 2012
#123
And go on and figure out what nineteen bucks is worth in todays dollars--or twenty three bucks...as
MADem
Apr 2012
#53
It is utterly dissimilar to FDR era work programs, which were all public works and paid
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2012
#25
The Irish are still immigrating like crazy to the United States, unlilke most of Europe.
Drahthaardogs
Apr 2012
#20
Yes, and people are still immigrating in droves to places like Utica, New York.
Drahthaardogs
Apr 2012
#52
fertility rate in ireland is 2.07 live births per woman. that's replacement rate.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#57
Are any of them "habitual residents" from other EU nations, returning home until the job situation
MADem
Apr 2012
#120
Colleges do it now, all the time. Five year plans are becoming increasingly common.
MADem
Apr 2012
#42
So this is a voluntary internship with nominal pay. Sounds like most internships I know
aikoaiko
Apr 2012
#45
Looking at a few other articles on that site I can't take anything they say seriously. (nt)
Posteritatis
Apr 2012
#51
As a "certain poster" has failed to answer my question, which I have asked, POLITELY, more than once
MADem
Apr 2012
#68
Gee--you and he agree on those banks you brought up, but you don't agree on FDR--even if you don't
MADem
Apr 2012
#117
This sounds like a lot of internships. I think Ireland has been so very lucky for a long time
riderinthestorm
Apr 2012
#59
No. Ireland has traditionally been a low-wage, high-unemployment country by virtue of its
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#61
Traditionally and historically oppressed but recently, yes they definitely had some great years
riderinthestorm
Apr 2012
#70
Yes, yes I know but as an actual Irishwoman I think that recently they have had a good run
riderinthestorm
Apr 2012
#71
Yup, in the light of the day (and more sober! Heh) of course that makes sense
riderinthestorm
Apr 2012
#82
And of course, the unspoken bit of business here is that the people who have lost their jobs, many
MADem
Apr 2012
#83