How do you feel about Brian Cowen being the highest paid politician in the Western Wo

[Purple]

Re: How do you feel about Brian Cowen being the highest paid politician in the Wester

am I the only one who finds the intentional mis-spelling on this word offensive on a number of levels, regardless of who the incumbent is.

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No, you're not.

 

[rabbit]

Re: How do you feel about Brian Cowen being the highest paid politician in the Wester

am I the only one who finds the intentional mis-spelling on this word offensive on a number of levels

Apologies if I accidentally spelled a word incorrectly - Irish was never my strong subject at school, and perhaps anymore I should call the Taoiseach our prime minister. I have met a lot of Americans etc who wondered what a "Taoiseach" was. ( never mind why he was paid more than the leader of the US, UK, Germany, France etc...all much larger, more industrialised countries etc ) Incidentally, I wonder if the p.m. of New Zealand was called some maoiri ( hope I spelt that correctly ! ) word like say Wongawonga, would the rest of the world say the "wongawonga" of New Zealand, or the prime minister of New Zealand ? New Zealand has the same approx population as Ireland, and the rest of the world can speak the native New Zealand language as well as they can speak Irish.

To those who may be offended at the mispelling of a single word, I am personally much more offended at now seeing so much negative equity , stock market and pension decline, loss of business confidence + turnover. Our " Taoiseach " grew the property bubble over the years, continuously extended the section 23 / 27 tax reliefs, and awarded themselves massive pay + pensions in the process. The mismanagement of our economy, how the country squandered the EC handouts, is a huge lost opportunity.

 

[Purple]

Re: How do you feel about Brian Cowen being the highest paid politician in the Wester

I'm much more concerned with the wasted billions than the extra thousands... I'd happily see him getting ten times his salary if he and his government did a good job.

 

[rabbit]

Re: How do you feel about Brian Cowen being the highest paid politician in the Wester

I'm much more concerned with the wasted billions than the extra thousands... I'd happily see him getting ten times his salary if he and his government did a good job.

Do you think any politiician , anywhere in the whole world, is worth ten times his salary ?

 

[room305]

Re: How do you feel about Brian Cowen being the highest paid politician in the Wester

Do you think any politiician , anywhere in the whole world, is worth ten times his salary ?

Nothing to do with his "worth" but I'd have to say €2.7M would be a small price for the country to pay in exchange for a competent government that avoided squandering our taxes at every turn.

 

[room305]

Re: How do you feel about Brian Cowen being the highest paid politician in the Wester

Do you think any politiician , anywhere in the whole world, is worth ten times his salary ?

Nothing to do with his "worth" but I'd have to say €2.7M would be a small price for the country to pay in exchange for a competent government that avoided squandering our taxes at every turn.

 

[rabbit]

Re: How do you feel about Brian Cowen being the highest paid politician in the Wester

Nothing to do with his "worth" but I'd have to say €2.7M would be a small price for the country to pay in exchange for a competent government that avoided squandering our taxes at every turn.

That does not answer the question. "Do you think any politiician , anywhere in the whole world, is worth ten times his salary ?"
Increase Cowens pay / benefits / pension package to 27 million and we would not have a better govt. Do you think Cowen should be paid more than the President of the U.S., or the leader of UK, France, Germany etc ...all much much bigger, more industrialised nations. Him paying himself that and the rest of us facing the realities we face reminds me of Haughey telling us to wear hairshirts in the 80's, while he shopped for the worlds most expensive shirts with his mistress in Paris.