Brendan Butler of IBEC on @latedebateRTE said last night that IBEC did not call for minimum wage reduction. IBEC did

Reduce the Minimum wage and make appropriate adjustments to social welfare: Income levels have reduced across the board and must reduce further if Irish competitiveness is to be fully restored. The fall in incomes in 2009 have distorted existing replacement ratios and an unchanged minimum wage acts against the downward direction of all incomes in…

They came first for the Greeks .. Then the IMF came for EU rope and by that time no one was left to speak up

They came first for the Greeks,and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t in Greece. Then they came for the Irish,and you didn’t speak up because you weren’t in Ireland. Then they came for the Portuguese & Spanish,and Europe didn’t speak up because it wasn’t Iberian. Then the IMF came for EU ropeand by that…

dochas.ie “the IMF has colluded with the world’s big private banks to foster a spirit of gungho, risk-free financing”

Ensure democratic and accountable global financial institutions The institutions that currently police the global financial system, in particular the international monetary fund (IMF), have failed spectacularly to the point of complicity in the banking crisis. While pushing poor countries to deregulate their financial markets, the IMF has colluded with the world’s big private banks to…