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phil · Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 1:58 pm Post subject:

Voted no to what.

herdman · Joined: 22 May 2009 Posts: 22 Location: sligo

to what our government and all the buracrats were pushing into i don't think that EU is democratic the comission does not listen to the people at all

quarryman · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 417 Location: Sligo

I think that the Irish people, especially the farmers, have taken and taken since the very start so I think it's time to bend over and..........

Any ideas what would happen to this morally and financially bankrupt country if we left the EU.

Oh and since when did we live in a Democracy?

phil · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:54 am Post subject:

Democracy my arse.
Quarryman that could of been me talking,farmers can't make a living on the prices they are paid,so do away with the handouts and charge a more realistic price for meat, milk and all the rest of subsidized foods.

dara · Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Posts: 186 Location: Mayo

Yes it's ridiculous. Farmers are practically public owned. If we don't tow the line the payments will stop and because you're not paid enough for you're produce you rely on the payments. They say around here that if you have to go 'into the cheque' (as you might have to do in winter for feed) you might as well pack it in - for what else I don't know. We're no longer subsidised to keep stock, just on the stocking levels we had nearly ten years ago. But still the government here hands out millions in grants for slatted houses that will never be filled.
Instead of encouraging EU farmers to produce the food stocking supermarket shelves the European commission, our federal government by another name, actively encourages imports from outside. Cheap beef from Brazil, cheap lamb from New Zealand and cherpy cheap chicken from Thailand. In my opinion, the only group that can possibly gain from this arrangement are supermarket giants who have been allowed to monopolise and dictate policy to the entire food service sector.

quarryman · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 417 Location: Sligo

The supermarket giants certainly but also the beef buyers and factories. I am not saying for one minute that THE BEEF MAGNATES ARE RUNNING A CARTEL but it all seems a bit of a coincidence that the rock bottom prices are similar across the board.
The likes of Larry Goodman are not known for their charitable works but for their bending to the very extreme of all the regulations both here and in Europe. If anyone wants to know what Larry Goodman is capable of, please pm me and I will reply off forum.

squirrel01 · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 90 Location: co. roscommon

he was good on the generation game, shut that door.....

quarryman · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 417 Location: Sligo

Ireland's Rich List....

Goodman’s Co Louth-based £235m Irish Food Processors is Europe’s biggest beef processor. He has invested the profits buying a stake in the Goldman Sachs Fleet Street building in London, and has other property worth more than £20m. Goodman, 68, has a stake in a private £70m hospital and, with £345,440 last year, is Ireland’s largest recipient of farm subsidies.

Personal assets worth €379m

phil · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:07 am Post subject:

What a gay pay day for Larry (shut that door)Goodman.

http://www.finfacts.ie/irelandbus...ws/publish/article_10002799.shtml

quarryman · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 417 Location: Sligo

Obscene.