This Is War. Bord Snip Declare War On Ordinary People.
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Thursday July 16, 2009 16:30
by pat c
How low can they go?
Well the lowest I've found is a cutback of €2.6 million in funding to local groups which are fighting against the ravages of drug addiction. Just what you would expect from a smug upper middle class toadie of the ruling class like Colm McCarthy.
Colm McCarthy has declared War on the ordinary people of Ireland. The only suitable response is to declare War right back on him and his masters.
2,000 special Needs Assistants to go in schools. Why? No reason given other than the savings. Is the same with English language support teachers an EXTRA 1,000 of them are to go.
McCarthy and his gang of cheerleaders for the rich also have their eye on the pupil teacher ratio andthey are not happy. At both primary and post-primary levels they want the ratios increased. No figures of teachers to go are given and it will probably take the teachers unions to work out this one.
In the third level sector McCarthy wants to get rid of 2,000 teaching posts! This would utterly decimate universities & ITs. The real agenda behind this is probably the setting up of private colleges.
The already inadequate capitation grants for schools are to be reduced by a further 10%. Fees for using the school bus service are to be increased to €500 pa for EACH pupil.
McCarthy seems to especially hate those with special needs: he & his Bord want special needs school transport to be subject to means-tested contributions.
In total McCarthy wants to get rid of almost 7,000 jobs in the education sector.
Its with Social Welfare that McCarthy and his Capitalist Bloodsuckrrs have their real fun:
A general reduction of 5%
A reduction of 20% in Child Benefit.
The Christmas Bonus to be permanently abolished.
An increase in eligibilty age for pensions .
Reduce Exceptional Needs Payments.
Abolish Treatment Benefit.
McCarthy & his gang also want to cut benefits for social welfare recipients who return to education and for those on Cummunity Employment Schemes.
The above is just a preliminary look at the Bord Snip report, examination in greater detail will be required. It is obvious though that the Bord Snip report is not just an attack on the Public Sector: It is an all out attack on the low and middle income earners and social welfare recipients. It is now imperative that Congrees and aall Trade Unions put themselves on a war footing.
The lackeys of the ruling class have declared war on us: Lets Fight Back!
Comments (8 of 8)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Aontaím in iomlán, tá cogadh ar na sráide de dhíth laithreach bonn. Cé chomh fuckin ceanndána is atá an aicme rialtais? Tá cistí de dhíth orainn fud fad na tíre leis na grúpaí agus pobail eagsúla i gceist a tharraignt le chéile i ngluaiseacht amháin le ciall agus múiniú a chur ar na muca seo.
get your head out of the sand pal...
Ahem may have swollowed the media propaganda whole but everyone else knows a class war
when they see one brewing. Wake up ireland before it is to late.
The lines are clear and it is here.
If the rich are to blame , then they can pay. If they don' t like that, then they can F**K off and take their
hypocrit politicans with them.
None of this has stopped John O'Donoghue, Ceann Comhairle, running up six-figure expenses on little trips abroad with his spouse. One law, etc.
The feckin government is acting like scared rabbit, by raising taxes on every thing it and the shabby greens propose.
Yesterday we read of the carbon fuel tax that will be put not just on auto fuels but even on the humble briquette, rates on houses,and water rates etc lowering of social benefits across the board.
Where do these ignorant feckers think we are going to get the money from to pay for all of this?
It is time we stood up and said Enough is a enough and that time is now, it is time that the fighting spirit for fair play is brought to their attention!
We need to show those f'k'rs THAT WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE MASTERS OF OUR OWN DESTINY
Lads we cannot now sit around waiting for a general election - that time is past and belongs to the lemmings.
"Where do these ignorant feckers think we are going to get the money from to pay for all of this?"
WE have to pay........ because the moneylenders upon whom we depend are about to pull the plug.
More than €40 million is being borrowed each day...we DON'T HAVE any money.
Ireland's situation is like borrowing off everyone in the bar for the next pint.
We HAVE to stop drinking.
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It is likely that banks and lending societies will up their mortgage rates soon; meanwhile, we learn that Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue spent a six-figure sum on holidays and trips abroad that we, the Irish people, paid for. Officers in local government jobs can take a 'leave of absence', start up in some entirely different career, and return without a care to their old jobs if they get bored. Dole payments may well be reduced. Yet judges defy openly any attempt to reduce their salaries. There is unrest, but it is confined to hard gossip over pints in safe, snug boozers. The Irish people seem paralysed in the face of their own ripping them off. Now it's not the 'dreadful' English doing it, it's other Irish men. Are we sickened into stupidity by the realisation that our own family is taking money out of our pockets? We have no scape-goat. We have only ourselves. And this dilemma terrifies us.
You've got to understand people, Ireland has been bought and payed for by the ruling classes, the Ireland of today looks more like the Ireland of British Rule, were landlords and the aristoracy who wrote the laws that only applied to the poor, the majority of all laws carried over from the time of British rule only apply to the poor and working class, not the rich.
For the sake of your children, Ireland!, please wake up and stop being distracted by 'Strictly Dancing' this and ' I am a Celebratey' that.
The main issue is getting our country back from people who don't care about the country or its citizens.
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