David Mc Williams
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“Selling off state assets on the cheap is just madness”
The logic of NAMA and this Government’s central strategy is to wait for the value of land to improve before selling.
Whether you agree with it or not, this is their logic. It can be summed up by: “Don’t sell land in a depressed market.”
Yet at the same time, the Government has just announced that it will sell real assets via privatization in a similarly depressed market. So why can it sell ESB — a real company with real assets — and not a field in Athlone which is worthless and should command the price a farmer would pay you to put a donkey grazing on it?
Why is it imperative to sell proper state assets and inconceivable to sell useless land?
full article here http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2010/07/28/selling-off-state-assets-on-the-cheap-is-just-madness
Comment :
David does have a knack of asking the right questions but I fear this, along with most of his other questions will remain unanswered.
The Finnia Fail /Green government has an attitude problem, and the shear arrogance toward the ordinary citizens of this state is just astonishing!
They have been in power for so long they now believe they have a god given right to their Dail seats and the opposition suffers from the same illusions.
With Labor now claiming the top prize of the Taoiseach’s Office, Enda Kenny dancing around the K-Club accepting the homage from the country’s top NAMA bound developers and at the same time claiming and acting to be Taoiseach in waiting!
What about the Jobs promised in the Lisbon Treaty?
Where is the jobs strategy, two years after the collapse of the Irish economy and billions powered down the toxic black hole(NAMA), nothing has been done to tackle unemployment
500,000 people are effectively dumped on to the scrap-heap and its time they united and took steps to voice their grievances
125,000 have emigrated and another 200,000 heading the same way
This has to be gross dereliction of duty by the current government
The opposition are incompetent and this is why the gangsters in Government t are able to get away with their proposed plunder of what’s left of the Nations assets
Don’t let them get away with this take action to-day get organized in your local area
Time for talking is over we need to take action! Ireland hasn’t got another two years with these gangsters in charge!
It’s time to show these squatters in the Dail that the people will decide and a new political reality is about to emerge from the citizens of Ireland and the message is
We want change, we want accountability from our politicians ,we want those responsible for the destruction of our state to face justice.
The notion of business as usual is over for good.
The Dail family dynasties must come to an end, Gombeenisim must be brought to an end
These squatters in the Cabinet must not be allowed to benefit from their economic terrorist activities
Selling off what is left of the Irish states family silver at this time is just plain criminal
And like all criminal acts under current Irish Law the perpetrators cannot benefit from their criminal deeds
Consequently their assets and bolted pensions must be confiscated and returned to the people of Ireland
