Comments on: Tipping the scales http://jameslawless.ie/2009/07/03/tipping-the-scales/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tipping-the-scales Politics, Kildare, Work and Play! Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:57:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Des Groome http://jameslawless.ie/2009/07/03/tipping-the-scales/#comment-970 Des Groome Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:21:30 +0000 http://jameslawless.ie/?p=621#comment-970 I am a strong believer in the influence of cultural folk memory on the ideology and attitudes of today. During the Great Famine the poor relied on quaker soup kitchens. Many changed religion and "took the soup" and their families suffered alienation in rural Ireland for generations as a result. Famine relief works provided jobs by building often pointless walls and so on- Keynesian economics that continues to this day with even Obama looking at similiar measures with questionable bang for his buck in terms of arguable money multiplier benefit. Saving the american car industry for example opens such questions. My great aunt Eileen OKennedy who lived to 95 told me as a small child of 7 or 8 how she at the same age carried pails of milk, bread, meat scraps from their farm shop to cottages nearby where women literally waited for this charity to feed children. This at the turn at the 20th century. The poor will always be with us and thus there must be welfare. The difficulty arises when natural motivations to help oneself are dulled by intergenerational unemployment and/ or by soft welfare policy that discriminate against the working poor. Political tapestry you are quite right is complex. I always feel right wing allegiance on the subjects of freeing up SMEs, the rights of employers,the harm trade unions have now caused to our competitiveness and productivity . But when it comes to fundamentals of the rights of individuals, of the right to education and health care, the need to curb MNCs, tax the wealthy, moderate supply side Karl Rove economics- all those views place me like you further left than almost any american prominent politician . FFs future I think is going to have to be in that left of centre space, with the political savvy to swing the pendulum a little to the right when the prevailing global economic wind requires. regards, Des. I am a strong believer in the influence of cultural folk memory on the ideology and attitudes of today. During the Great Famine the poor relied on quaker soup kitchens. Many changed religion and “took the soup” and their families suffered alienation in rural Ireland for generations as a result. Famine relief works provided jobs by building often pointless walls and so on- Keynesian economics that continues to this day with even Obama looking at similiar measures with questionable bang for his buck in terms of arguable money multiplier benefit. Saving the american car industry for example opens such questions.
My great aunt Eileen OKennedy who lived to 95 told me as a small child of 7 or 8 how she at the same age carried pails of milk, bread, meat scraps from their farm shop to cottages nearby where women literally waited for this charity to feed children. This at the turn at the 20th century.
The poor will always be with us and thus there must be welfare.
The difficulty arises when natural motivations to help oneself are dulled by intergenerational unemployment and/ or by soft welfare policy that discriminate against the working poor.
Political tapestry you are quite right is complex. I always feel right wing allegiance on the subjects of freeing up SMEs, the rights of employers,the harm trade unions have now caused to our competitiveness and productivity . But when it comes to fundamentals of the rights of individuals, of the right to education and health care, the need to curb MNCs, tax the wealthy, moderate supply side Karl Rove economics- all those views place me like you further left than almost any american prominent politician . FFs future I think is going to have to be in that left of centre space, with the political savvy to swing the pendulum a little to the right when the prevailing global economic wind requires. regards, Des.

]]> By: Conor http://jameslawless.ie/2009/07/03/tipping-the-scales/#comment-967 Conor Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:02:27 +0000 http://jameslawless.ie/?p=621#comment-967 While you are over in Connemara, would you throw that Blackberry against a rock and buy an iPhone? iPhone's are where it's all at, and you need to compliment it with a MacBook Pro. Once you go Mac, you never go back :D While you are over in Connemara, would you throw that Blackberry against a rock and buy an iPhone?

iPhone’s are where it’s all at, and you need to compliment it with a MacBook Pro.

Once you go Mac, you never go back :D

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