/u/Debeefed Visit your own link and look at the picture they chose to use.
Michael is a clever operator. It’s actually been a little funny listening to the various commentators talk about the constitutionality of his comments as if Michael D didn’t know exactly what he was doing. The housing clusterfuck has been going on for so long it’s nearly part of the vernacular. In stepping out of line just a bit he brought it back to where it belongs. To the forefront, on the front page, heated debates in the Dail etc. It was becoming part of the course for a while there. He rattled the cages and rightly so. That Irish times article wouldn’t exist without his comments. I hope there’s an election sooner rather than later.
There’s a certain air of desperation in those seeking to shut down what Higgins said. Seems he struck a nerve.
One funny part in the article:
> Why would they design policies just to be the “star performer” for Wall Street funds, over and above the needs of Irish people who elect them? It would be self-defeating.
In fact it is self-defeating but there seems to be too much ideological inflexibility to recognise that…so that in fact is why. The scorpion still stung the frog even though both would drown simply because that was it’s nature.
This must be phase one of the 18 page document for attacking the president, expect Leo to disclose that Higgins was once suspended from school for farting when he was 12
“Why would they design policies just to be the “star performer” for Wall Street funds, over and above the needs of Irish people who elect them? It would be self-defeating.”
I can’t tell whether this argument is extremely dumb or extremely naive. I suppose it could be both. Either way, it’s kind of irksome that the entire article is predicated on the author supposedly understanding economics better than MDH when he simultaneously comes out with this kind of rubbish that wouldn’t pass muster in a first year undergrad’s essay.
Politicians act in ways that undermine the interests of people all the time. It isn’t self-defeating so long as they can advance the interests of (or simply manipulate) their base who will keep voting them into office.
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/u/Debeefed Visit your own link and look at the picture they chose to use.
Michael is a clever operator. It’s actually been a little funny listening to the various commentators talk about the constitutionality of his comments as if Michael D didn’t know exactly what he was doing. The housing clusterfuck has been going on for so long it’s nearly part of the vernacular. In stepping out of line just a bit he brought it back to where it belongs. To the forefront, on the front page, heated debates in the Dail etc. It was becoming part of the course for a while there. He rattled the cages and rightly so. That Irish times article wouldn’t exist without his comments. I hope there’s an election sooner rather than later.
There’s a certain air of desperation in those seeking to shut down what Higgins said. Seems he struck a nerve.
One funny part in the article:
> Why would they design policies just to be the “star performer” for Wall Street funds, over and above the needs of Irish people who elect them? It would be self-defeating.
In fact it is self-defeating but there seems to be too much ideological inflexibility to recognise that…so that in fact is why. The scorpion still stung the frog even though both would drown simply because that was it’s nature.
This must be phase one of the 18 page document for attacking the president, expect Leo to disclose that Higgins was once suspended from school for farting when he was 12
“Why would they design policies just to be the “star performer” for Wall Street funds, over and above the needs of Irish people who elect them? It would be self-defeating.”
I can’t tell whether this argument is extremely dumb or extremely naive. I suppose it could be both. Either way, it’s kind of irksome that the entire article is predicated on the author supposedly understanding economics better than MDH when he simultaneously comes out with this kind of rubbish that wouldn’t pass muster in a first year undergrad’s essay.
Politicians act in ways that undermine the interests of people all the time. It isn’t self-defeating so long as they can advance the interests of (or simply manipulate) their base who will keep voting them into office.
Shame he can’t be re-elected for a third term.