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Irish politicians steal your money!
By DIETRICH BLITZER.
Enough is enough!
How much longer are the Irish public going to tolerate their politicians giving themselves too much wages and acting like royalty?
People are dying on the streets, cold, hungry and homeless.
What sort of people allows this to happen?
Why are the taxpayers of this country not protesting
about this?
Why are they allowing politicians to steal their money and live like kings while the country is in a dangerous, lawless state and so many people are living in poverty and squalor?
The level of politician’s wages needs to be capped to a reasonable level like E500 a week. They are, after all supposed to be civil servants and not royalty.
While politicians are given such high wages, as they are now, the job is mostly going to attract greedy, selfish and corrupt individuals, of the type that is in government at present, and has been as long as this writer can remember.
When will the Irish taxpayers get up off their lazy, fat arses and protest on the streets, to make right this disgusting and corrupt evil that the politicians are flaunting in our faces?
Stop drinking so much, get out on the streets, and start protesting for a fair Ireland that we can all be proud of!
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Irish leaders raise their pay
By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer
DUBLIN, Ireland — Prime Minister Bertie Ahern gave himself a hefty pay increase Thursday, putting his salary higher than both President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Ireland's 14 Cabinet members and 20 lower-ranking ministers also awarded themselves raises, a move that opposition lawmakers branded as perverse and unjustifiable.
The pay hikes in Ireland -- a country that already boasts some of the world's best-paid politicians -- were recommended in an experts' report on keeping pay of senior government employees competitive with that of the private sector.
Ahern, Ireland's leader since 1997, will see his annual salary rise 14 percent to $444,000 -- more than Bush ($400,000), Brown ($387,000) and a host of other European leaders.
Deputy Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who is also the finance minister, will have his pay rise 15.6 percent to $387,000. The other Cabinet members and lower-ranking ministers are getting 12 percent raises to $344,000 and $236,000 each, respectively.
The politicians' pay rises resonate in Ireland, a country with a tradition of national wage pacts unique in Europe. The current pact offers about 700,000 unionized workers raises of less than 5 percent annually, a reward wiped out by a similar rate of inflation.
Richard Bruton, finance spokesman for the main opposition Fine Gael party, said Ahern's crowded Cabinet would cost taxpayers more than $10.3 million a year.
"This has all the hallmarks of a government that is now drunk on power and completely divorced from reality," Bruton said. He said politicians should observe salary restraint "at a time when we are suffering from health cutbacks, record murder rates, crowded schools and are told that there are tough times ahead."
Sinn Fein lawmaker Arthur Morgan noted that Ahern's raise was about $10,000 more than the average annual salary in Ireland.
"The government cannot in one breath award themselves substantial pay increases and in another tell ordinary people to tighten their belts for the hard times ahead. Such arrogance and complete disrespect for ordinary people cannot go unchallenged," Morgan said.
Ahern and other government ministers declined to comment on the raises.
The pay rises could have even been higher: The six-member expert panel discounted its recommended salary hikes by 15 percent because state-paid employees have superior pensions than most private-sector counterparts.
The announced raises were scheduled to come into force in three steps over the next 18 months. The report covered the 1,600 highest-ranking state employees, including doctors and hospital administrators, senior police officers and judges, who got raises of up to 22.4 percent.
Ahern's Fianna Fail party, which has won the most seats in parliament in every election since 1932, returned to power in May atop a three-party government. Earlier this week, Cowen warned the public to expect a tighter budget in December because the long-booming economy was slowing down.
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