VOTE LABOUR
For anyone who has to live on wages earned or retirement pension, there is only one set of choices in this election; Labour and the other Left Parties, Greens, Independent Socialists. The more Left –wing TD’s elected to the Dáil, the better for representation and defence of the interests of working people. Trade Unionists who vote for Fianna Failure are cutting their own throats; FF/PD are the parties of the employers, exploiters, land speculators, big business, bankers and kissmea$$ foreign monopolies. These vultures don’t give a tuppenny-fuck about workers interests. Low wages and longer hours are their main aims.
YOU REALLY WANT TO GIVE THEM THE POWER?
If you vote for the continuation of FF/PD you’re voting for privatisation of your public health service, and further down the road, privatisation of education and public water supply as well. You’ll pay through the nose for these services and the FF/PD business cronies will rake in their profits at your expense. DON’T BE FOOLED by soft-sell rhetoric by Blank-Cheque Bertie. He didn’t deliver on the promises of the last two elections and he won’t deliver on the current lot either. His job is to guard the interests of the Rich Elite who own your jobs, your house mortgage and your bank credit. If you vote for him you give THEM the means to change the laws to suit THEIR interests, not yours. THEY will decide how much tax they WON’T pay and therefore, how much tax YOU WILL pay whether you like it or not. THEY will decide where houses WILL be built and where NOT. THEY will decide how much YOU WILL PAY for a house. THEY will decide who has first access to HEALTH CARE and who WILL NOT. THEY will decide to increase charges forESB, GAS, GP and Hospital visits, Public Transport, Bin Tax and the coming WATER TAX and whatever additional stealth taxes they can think up in the next five years.
BIGGER THAN THE BIGGEST BANK ROBBERY
During this Election campaign, Phoney Democrat Fuhrer Micilín Mac Doolittle, has accused other parties of bank-robbing and obtaining money from drug pushers but his party has carried out the biggest scale robbery ever in the last ten years. The Government’s own statistics show that wages as a percentage of Gross Industrial Production have fallen by a quarter; In 1997, when PD/FF came into office, the share of wages in the value of gross industrial production was 9.4%. In 2002, when their first five year term ended, the figure was reduced to 7%. This means that, by comparison, a net amount of 25% of the wages share had been transferred to PD friends in the corporate sector and all the gains of productivity in those five years had gone to them too (CSO – Census of Industrial Production 1997-2002). And that was before the Government took its tax cut and the affect of Government ordered price rises.
This means that the wage-earner’s share of the value of the “national cake” as they like to call it, has been reduced by a quarter as a direct result of PD/FF economic policies. In money terms, this exceeds any bank robberies of this or any other century. Not only have they put a big hole in the value of your wage packet but, they still have the brass-neck to demand that you pay for all the other stealth charges they have introduced as well.
RIGHT-WING GOVERNMENT - NO THANKS! PD/FF OUT! OUT! OUT!
FearFeasa Mac Léinn
Áth Cliath/Dublin, 23 Bealtaine/MAY 2007.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
MANAGING THE ECONOMY?
The FF/PD wage-robber coalition, two-tier health service coalition, no social-housing coalition, are begging for your vote on the false story that they have “managed” the economy better than anyone else. They have not. It’s true that the country has experienced a surge of wealth creation and prosperity in the past ten years, a prosperity the benefits of which have been denied to the 850,000 of the population who are still existing on the poverty line. It’s true there are more millionaires in Ireland than ever before; only the millionaires benefit from that, and of course, those who get “dig-outs” from time to time from some of them.
But, what is this prosperity based on? Mostly, Foreign Direct Investment and the allocation of structural funds from the EU for infrastructure development. The infrastructure investment was overdue and only a catch-up for the lack of same during the 70’s and 80’s. No provision has been made for increasing population and increased economic activity. Where will the jobs be when the construction boom is over? What use are one-bedroom shoe-box apartments to families with two or three children? Where will the investment come from for the further infrastructure needs? As was seen today, in Athlone, the jobs dependent on FDI can vanish overnight. If you believe PD/FF that 12% corporation tax is keeping foreign investment staying here, think again, a survey of American owned companies by the American Chamber of Commerce here presented by managing director Alan Gray last Friday showed that 43.5% of these companies were considering moving part of their operations out of Ireland and 8.7% are considering closing down entirely (Sunday Tribune 20/05/07).
No ideas, no vision
No measures have been advanced by this Government of Clowns and Political Fraudsters to expand the indigenous industrial base to establish local job creation on the basis of modern production. They have given away for free national assets such as the Corrib Gas Field and pretended this was progress. They have presided over the decline of Agriculture which is one of our prime natural resources. They have allowed other EU countries to sweep €50 Billion of valuable fish resources from our territorial seas in exchange for a mere €8.5 Billion of structural funds. Some deal, what? They have failed to provide a proper Research & Development programme to encourage and facilitate product innovation for the global market to be based here and not be the preserve of foreign monopolies. They have failed to extend Broadband Internet to the whole country, an essential if our economy is to compete on a global level. They have failed on Strategic Transport Planning for Dublin and the other major cities and towns. The daily traffic congestion everywhere is testament to that failure. They have failed in their responsibilities to effect measures to control carbon emissions which are contributing to possibly irreversible Climate Change unless co-ordinated international action is brought about. They have left our economy the most dependent in Europe on imported energy and have NO IDEA what to do about it.
The Shameful 90’s
No, not the Decade, but the 90,000 schoolchildren who go hungry to school every day without breakfast, and the 90,000 family units awaiting accommodation on local authority housing lists. These social scandals, the shame of civilised Europe, are the direct result of FF/PD “management” of the economy; THEIR choices, as a government, on social spending. Yet, they have had budget surpluses in 9 out of the ten years they have been in power so they can’t fob off criticism with the poor mouth. These surpluses, of course, are monies they have extracted from your wage packet with their income tax, VAT charges and stealth taxes. Now they are promising to spend more than ever because they want your vote, but it’s just a repeat of the same lies they told in 1997 and 2002.
FearFeasa Mac Léinn
Áth Cliath/Dublin, 23 Bealtaine/MAY 2007.
The FF/PD wage-robber coalition, two-tier health service coalition, no social-housing coalition, are begging for your vote on the false story that they have “managed” the economy better than anyone else. They have not. It’s true that the country has experienced a surge of wealth creation and prosperity in the past ten years, a prosperity the benefits of which have been denied to the 850,000 of the population who are still existing on the poverty line. It’s true there are more millionaires in Ireland than ever before; only the millionaires benefit from that, and of course, those who get “dig-outs” from time to time from some of them.
But, what is this prosperity based on? Mostly, Foreign Direct Investment and the allocation of structural funds from the EU for infrastructure development. The infrastructure investment was overdue and only a catch-up for the lack of same during the 70’s and 80’s. No provision has been made for increasing population and increased economic activity. Where will the jobs be when the construction boom is over? What use are one-bedroom shoe-box apartments to families with two or three children? Where will the investment come from for the further infrastructure needs? As was seen today, in Athlone, the jobs dependent on FDI can vanish overnight. If you believe PD/FF that 12% corporation tax is keeping foreign investment staying here, think again, a survey of American owned companies by the American Chamber of Commerce here presented by managing director Alan Gray last Friday showed that 43.5% of these companies were considering moving part of their operations out of Ireland and 8.7% are considering closing down entirely (Sunday Tribune 20/05/07).
No ideas, no vision
No measures have been advanced by this Government of Clowns and Political Fraudsters to expand the indigenous industrial base to establish local job creation on the basis of modern production. They have given away for free national assets such as the Corrib Gas Field and pretended this was progress. They have presided over the decline of Agriculture which is one of our prime natural resources. They have allowed other EU countries to sweep €50 Billion of valuable fish resources from our territorial seas in exchange for a mere €8.5 Billion of structural funds. Some deal, what? They have failed to provide a proper Research & Development programme to encourage and facilitate product innovation for the global market to be based here and not be the preserve of foreign monopolies. They have failed to extend Broadband Internet to the whole country, an essential if our economy is to compete on a global level. They have failed on Strategic Transport Planning for Dublin and the other major cities and towns. The daily traffic congestion everywhere is testament to that failure. They have failed in their responsibilities to effect measures to control carbon emissions which are contributing to possibly irreversible Climate Change unless co-ordinated international action is brought about. They have left our economy the most dependent in Europe on imported energy and have NO IDEA what to do about it.
The Shameful 90’s
No, not the Decade, but the 90,000 schoolchildren who go hungry to school every day without breakfast, and the 90,000 family units awaiting accommodation on local authority housing lists. These social scandals, the shame of civilised Europe, are the direct result of FF/PD “management” of the economy; THEIR choices, as a government, on social spending. Yet, they have had budget surpluses in 9 out of the ten years they have been in power so they can’t fob off criticism with the poor mouth. These surpluses, of course, are monies they have extracted from your wage packet with their income tax, VAT charges and stealth taxes. Now they are promising to spend more than ever because they want your vote, but it’s just a repeat of the same lies they told in 1997 and 2002.
FearFeasa Mac Léinn
Áth Cliath/Dublin, 23 Bealtaine/MAY 2007.
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