The biggest Pro Lisbon excuse yet

[luther]

keep costs of business down
Westside.

Lower wages???

Lower the minimum wage???

[Westsidex]

Lower wages???

Lower the minimum wage???

thats what causes over priced services.

Westside.

[luther]

Control inflation, thats what causes over priced services.

Westside.

We might all know what the answers are, but how do you do this???

What do you suggest to keep business costs low and control inflation???

[Westsidex]

We might all know what the answers are, but how do you do this???

What do you suggest to keep business costs low and control inflation???

in fact its a vague as voting yes to lisbon.
Westside.

[Westsidex]

Westside,

The US and other Multinationals that have pulled out or will pull out are pulling out because we are uncompetitive compared with lower labour cost economies. If you look carefully though, you will find that these are largely semiskilled assembly or low grade manufacturing jobs. We need to focus on higher skilled jobs in this economy as we have a highly educated workforce and we need to make use if the investment we have put into education.

The vast majority of the Multinational companies are also here or will come here because of our low corporation tax rate and this will remain to be the case as long as we continue to provide a plentiful source of english speaking well educated workers.

The impact on our tax take if some of these multinationals were to leave would be catastrophic.

The argument made earlier about having Irish workers travel to European countries to work for less than the minimum wage is ridiculous. Who would do that with the level of social welfare that is available in this country? Nobody sane anyway.

The big problem we have at the moment is that the unions, particularly the public service unions are holding the country to ransom, refusing to take a pay cut like the private sector has done and believing that it is their God given right to be paid more than the private sector even though they are permanent and have massive pensions.

This, along with the cost of our health service is what is dragging the country down. Any other argument is ridiculous.

Being in the EU involves compromise, we have been given special treatment on the most important issues we raised, so it is right and proper that we continue to participate and vote yes.

Just look at the NO campaigners, all are part of the "lunatic fringe".

Use your head people.

TD

using my head would be sitting back and saying and doing nothing while the gov whip us more?the only lunatics in this country are the ones who managed to bring a small open economy which was the fastest growing economy in Europe into a recession where they have to borrow boatloads just to survive let alone prosper.

By voting YEs we will have more of this.

Vote NO,
Westside.

[experienced punter]

ffs this thread after thread of that bastard of a treaty just vote NO now no more......

[luther]

We might all know what the answers are, but how do you do this???

What do you suggest to keep business costs low and control inflation???

Your question was vague. in fact its a vague as voting yes to lisbon.
Westside.

You said the only way to go is to keep costs of business down and control inflation.

My question was, how do you propose doing this???

It's easy for everybody to come up with the answers to all our problems, but getting there is a little more difficult.......

Your car has broken down, or won't start. Now you know the answer is to fix it, of course unless you know how to fix it it's still broken.........

[piggi]

Vote NO on Friday if you have any self respect...

Absolutely -- these gits in Dail Eireann have forgotten who is supposed to represent whom!

They work for us, for Krishna's sake!

[rover]

Absolutely -- these gits in Dail Eireann have forgotten who is supposed to represent whom!

They work for us, for Krishna's sake!

All your efforts are in vain lads, it's gonna go through, if it doesn't, I'll eat my mickey.

[luther]

Absolutely -- these gits in Dail Eireann have forgotten who is supposed to represent whom!

They work for us, for Krishna's sake!

At the next general election, but this isn't it............