What Bookman doesn't tell you, though, is that there was a substantial reduction in the tax load on Irish citizens and businesses coupled with a serious reduction in government regulation of the free market economy. Bookman didn't seem to mention anything about the lower taxes and the deregulation of business and the Irish labor market. That tax level, by the way, is substantially lower than the tax level in the U.S.
Lower-paying service related jobs=illegals
Lack of high-tech jobs=we exported our high-tech jobs.
neither side mentions the almost 2 billion pounds infused into Ireland’s economy fron 2000-2006 from the EU Structural Fund and the European Social Fund.
Yes, I'm so sure those 8-15 year olds are revolutionizing Ireland.
What do you expect from the Atlanta constipation?
You make great points.
“Georgia’s economy is certainly growing, too, particularly in metro Atlanta. However, too many of the jobs we’re adding tend to be lower-paying service-related jobs. And while we’re seeing bits and pieces of a high-tech industry locating here, it hasn’t come close to reaching the critical mass needed to explode into something significant.”
You don’t have the employment base to support such endeavors. It was tried in Memphis and it failed miserably for the same reasons. Your employment base is educated to the level where they are barely qualified, if at all, to even fill these “low-paying service industry” jobs.
It’s fairly simple. The Irish were an agrarian people because the Brits held them back for several hundred years and kept them down on the farm. But the Irish were also an intelligent and civilized people, so when the British leash was gradually removed, it didn’t take them long to take charge of their country.
The money from Europe certainly helped. But how many billions has Europe poured into post-colonial Africa, most of which has been going steadily backward as a result.