Posted on 02/25/2011 8:45:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
SIGNS OF THE TIMES:
* Around 1,000 Irish head for the exits every week.
* Australian visa applications from Dublin in the past 12 months are up 60 per cent.
* The Irish banking system became three times bigger than the gross national product of the country
* Those who leave the country no longer have a say in Ireland’s future.
“Those who leave the country no longer have a say in Ireland’s future.
But they are not responsible for paying back any of the debt any more, either!
Sad, but then again I would not be an American if Ireland did not send her sons and daughters scurrying out of the country on a more or less regular basis.
The Irish Voter Famine of 2011...............
These numbers are hardly a record Irish Exodus. My ancestors came here in Black 47 with a million + between 1846 -1855.
“Fianna Fail is the centre-left party which has been in government for 60 of the 89 years of Ireland’s independence.”
I guess they should be simply called the “FAIL” party now.
Every nation now has problems. When will people start using their heads and figure out that they need to FIX WHEREVER THEY CURRENTLY LIVE ? FIX IT. Otherwise we’re just playing musical nations.
My ancestral home county. Maybe I can buy the family farm back.
That ain,t nothin we get a million Mexicans an hour in Texas.
“Those who leave the country no longer have a say in Ireland’s future.”
They’ll replace them with Muslims.
I pity whomever is on the receiving end.
Were those great Gaels of Ireland
The men that God made mad
Their wars were never merry
But all their songs were sad
Bump to save. erin go bragh.
“...an ailing economy is forcing record numbers of disillusioned citizens to flee the country in search of a better life overseas. “
Where should I go after the dems, unions, government parasites, class warriors, and banksters have reduced the USA to a smoking heap of rubble?
RE: with a million + between 1846 -1855.
It took over a million in nine years then.
It obviously isn’t as bad today as it was then.
At the rate of 1,000 leaving Ireland a week ( current figures ), it will take 20 years to reach the 1 million number.
Hopefully, Ireland will have fixed whatever financial problems she has then ( or will she ?).
Having ruined their homeland, Irish liberals look for new places to destroy....
Eastern Europe, where capitalism is reportedly blooming and those nations are rising from mediocrity.
That sounds like a lot of the people who have fled California, New York, and New Jersey.
“Fianna Fail”
Fianna must = Epic
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