sinbadsailor
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With the Irish Government favouring foreign-direct investment to save the country and NAMA taking control over a huge amount of
Irish land, just what percentage of this country is still actually under Irish Control. By this I mean that at the end of the
day Ireland owes money, but do we really know who these bond holders actually are underneath all these managed
funds and investment vehicles. I woud be worried if a large part of Ireland was coming under US control for example.
As for the foreign direct investment, I can see this as a massive amount of our money that we let leave the country, virtually
untaxed for the sake of jobs created by large US corporations. Even the likes of our insurance industry is being globalised
(read Americanised) with Hibernian as an example. Is this not just a more civilised way of controlling a country?
The only difference being that we are not being bombed first and then offered building contracts to rebuild our cities
and give us utility services?
I guess looking at the landscape of our young people fleeing in the thousands and the rest of us locked here because
of debt, it looks very grim for our future?
Opinions?
Irish land, just what percentage of this country is still actually under Irish Control. By this I mean that at the end of the
day Ireland owes money, but do we really know who these bond holders actually are underneath all these managed
funds and investment vehicles. I woud be worried if a large part of Ireland was coming under US control for example.
As for the foreign direct investment, I can see this as a massive amount of our money that we let leave the country, virtually
untaxed for the sake of jobs created by large US corporations. Even the likes of our insurance industry is being globalised
(read Americanised) with Hibernian as an example. Is this not just a more civilised way of controlling a country?
The only difference being that we are not being bombed first and then offered building contracts to rebuild our cities
and give us utility services?
I guess looking at the landscape of our young people fleeing in the thousands and the rest of us locked here because
of debt, it looks very grim for our future?
Opinions?