Harrekin
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Not here.
Austerity has been a complete success here, the economic data is quite clear.
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Austerity has been a complete success here, the economic data is quite clear.
abandonconflict
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What austerity? Ireland is a welfare state.
Harrekin
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The austerity that destroyed our budget deficit over the past 5 years?
You know, that bailout thing you've probably heard mentioned?
We literally give away 50% of our GDP to people, you should LOVE this place.
DonAlejandroVega
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all the numbers are being twisted. there was zero economic growth in the first quarter. inflation is higher, and actually seen as a good thing by lunatics such as Janet Yellen, over at the Monopoly Money factory. the price of meat has gone up almost 9% in the past year. you go from steak to hamburger, but Yellen says that's good.
ginwilly
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In America we call reducing the increase in spending, not spending itself, austerity. Forgive us as a nation for not understanding economics and embracing Keynesian ideas. Too many simpletons think you have to spend your way out of debt, and what's important is how much we spend, not how.
If you want a chuckle, have the resident idiot explain aggregate demand, it's almost cute.
abandonconflict
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Before I explain aggregate demand, explain trickle-down economics.
ginwilly
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It's the thought that printing 80B a month and giving it to banks so they can loan it out to the other banks and major corporations will help people on welfare and create jobs.
Now, explain how spending 10k on hookers and blow is the same to the economy as using 10k to expand an operation that actually produces goods.
Oh and stop pretending you are actually going to explain an answer of yours. You are either going to post a non-related meme or call me a name to break my bones. You won't answer shit, so don't even pretend you will.
What can be privately owned in your view?
abandonconflict
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I still don't understand trickle-down economics. Sorry.
sheskunk
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What, no meme?
i need to take a shower now..
ginwilly
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Yeah, no shit.
It's a thought that our economy is top-down. The exact shit that we have been doing for last 6 years affirms that our current president feels this to be true.
Edit: AC, I don't consider you the resident idiot, not sure why you jumped in like that. Is that how you feel about yourself?
Dr Kynes
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but you did REAL austerity
here, we cut services, raise taxes and build more boondoggles like "High Speed Rail" aircraft carriers and government subsidized crony companies that are doomed to fail
lefty liberal "austerity" is all about spending more on useless bullshit while squeezing the poor until they will vote for anything to stop the suffering
just like spain and greece did
ginwilly
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Austerity is collective misery
abandonconflict
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"real austerity"
Lol
So austere...
The welfare programs saved capitalism.
Lol
So austere...
The welfare programs saved capitalism.
Harrekin
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Infact, we're expecting a windfall from saving some of our banks (not Anglo, its a fucking money pit) because they've repaid the loans we gave them, and we still own the shares in the banks that we'll be able to float when the time is right.
We've reduced a budget deficit from 29% to around 3%, without any real service reductions in 5 years.
Tax was increased, but the lowest paid pay basically nothing extra.
Squeezes the middle class, but they'll benefit the most from a fixed economy.
UncleBuck
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that guy lost his court case several times because he was diverting rivers or some shit. you're not allowed to block the fucking river from everyone downstream who depends on it.
just goes to show how far you will go to try to tell a lie. how pathetic, even for you.
UncleBuck
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why didn't walmart set up in idaho where wages are cheaper and set up in oregon instead?
all your conservative dogma turns into a pile of piss and shit in the real world.
abandonconflict
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Welfare programs.
UncleBuck
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lullerskates.
you sound like a whiny kid at community college talking about how socialism never worked because they never did REAL socialism.
the only difference is that you are 50 years old, living with mom, and barely cracking min wage.
Dr Kynes
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no, "redistributing wealth" from government back to those it was taken from saved irish capitalism
meanwhile california's "aggregate demand" based "austerity" has cut social programs, schools, universities, elder care, indigent medical care, welfare for the needy, snap, and local government funding for roads and other infrastructure so they can burn 6 million dollars a day, weekends and holidays included, to construct a "high speed rail" (which is now Low Speed Rail) between SF and LA, which is only wanted by the contractors and land speculators who will get rich off it.