2bmortgagefree
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Credibility of Ivan Yates? Why choose this topic to bring that up? There are lots of examples you could find if that's the topic.Discuss
I'm not a worker.we as workers
I derive my income from my labour so I'm a worker.I'm not a worker.
The reason I choose this topic to bring up Ivan Yates credibility is that, this is the topic he writes about in today's paper.
Ivan Yates has zero credibility in my eyes when he has benefited from public pay increases, he has unpaid debts and either public or private workers shouldn't buy the line that's he's spinning. Ivan is still keeping valuable property at arms length from the banks to pay back the debts he owes. Ivan has no place having a go at ordinary workers
The country is at crossroads, we as workers can keep chasing pay increases but in the country's interest tackling cost of living will be better for both public and private sector workers. The play one set of workers against another will do nothing for workers in the long run.
I derive my income from my labour so I'm a worker.
Retired people are not workers.
People who derive all or most of their income from welfare are not workers.
Ivan Yates has no credibility but it is important to hear contrarian voices outside the populist left-wing liberal establishment.
If you read a newspaper or listen to a news source and you agree with everything they say then they are biased.
I read the Guardian and the Irish Times. I agree with almost all of their social and political commentary because I'm a liberal.
I disagree with much of their economic reporting because I'm not a populist-socialist.
It's important to listen to people who you disagree with. It draws you to the center. Oh, and never get your news from Facebook.
As for the whole "There's an agenda to split the Public and Private sectors" thing; I don't think there is. There are just sectoral interests. Balancing those interests is what democracy is all about. There is no agenda by "the rich" to impoverish the "wurkers". There are no lizard people, there is no illuminati, there is no international jewish conspiracy. For all its faults this country works reasonably well and Our democracy is reasonably sound.
Employers are just people who employ other people. Talking about employers or wealthy people as if they are morally deficient just because they are rich is just bigoted.
If you want to see a reduction in insurance costs then reduce the cost of claims.
If you want to see a reduction in mortgage rates then increase the rates of repossession of properties.
If you want to see a reduction in rent then get the construction sector working properly (who says it's just the Public Sector that is wasteful and inefficient).
None of this is a mystery but conflating it with pay claims for people earning in excess of €50,000 a year is nonsense.
Ivan is right re public sector pensions, they got paid their expected amounts while the private sector pensions were disamated during the recession.
Public sector kept their jobs albeit at reduced salaries. No harm to hear a dissenting voice .
That 19%, along with a load more, is taken to pay Public Sector wages and pensions. Maybe that's why some in the private sector are dissatisfied.To be fair people in the public sector offered a dissenting voice about how the Government treatment of private sector workers who lost there jobs having taken over around 19% of payroll in PRSI and finished up giving them the same amount of money as someone who never worked a day in there life when the found themself out of a job,
If you read 2dmortgagefree first post this is part of what He/She is saying,The 1.7 million are not making a very good job of looking out for one another,
I read the Guardian and the Irish Times. I agree with almost all of their social and political commentary because I'm a liberal.
I disagree with much of their economic reporting because I'm not a populist-socialist.
I agree. I find sexism and racism and misogyny and homophobia offensive. I also find inverted snobbery offensive and I find the bigotry of most people who profess to be socialists offensive. Should they all be silenced to protect my sensibilities?The Guardian (and to a less extent the Irish Times ) has been almost totally taken over by the idea of identity politics. This is the very antithesis of Liberalism.
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