Thoughts on the crash and the alternatives

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:25:42 +0000
Capitalist crisis, Public sector, SIPTU, Workplace, National, Newsroom, Analysis, Andrew N Flood

Our government has become more and more open about their plans for us. Cowen wants to drive down our living standards 12% and has already cut all our wages through the tax levy and slashed the wages of workers in the public sector further through the so called ‘pensions levy’. He openly talks of “four more years of even steeper cuts”. He is so confident of us taking this lying down that he had the cheek to announce his intention to drive down our living standards at what even RTE referred to as the “Dublin Chamber of Commerce's lavish AGM dinner which cost €160” a head.