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Dracula budget sucks blood from workers

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | press release author Tuesday April 07, 2009 21:51author by Eugene Mc Cartan - Communist Party of Irelandauthor email cpoi at eircom dot netauthor address James Connolly House, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2:author phone 01 - 6708707 or 0879733414 Report this post to the editors

A budget for the rich

Dracula budget sucks blood from workers

The Communist Party of Ireland in a statement on the budget presented by the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, described it as a Dracula budget, designed to suck the blood from workers so as to give a transfusion to bankers, stockbrokers, tax-avoiders, and property speculators. These parasites will all sleep well and will be celebrating the fact that their interests have been well looked after by “their government.”

COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND

7 April 2009

Press Statement on Budget

Dracula budget sucks blood from workers

The Communist Party of Ireland in a statement on the budget presented by the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, described it as a Dracula budget, designed to suck the blood from workers so as to give a transfusion to bankers, stockbrokers, tax-avoiders, and property speculators. These parasites will all sleep well and will be celebrating the fact that their interests have been well looked after by “their government.”

The party went on to state that the budget had all the hallmarks of being constructed within the narrow neo-liberalist mindset of the Department of Finance, the EU Commission, and the European Central Bank.

Those people and institutions that bear a heavy responsibility for the present financial crisis, as distinct from the general crisis of global capitalism, will be the net beneficiaries of this budget.

The establishment of the National Asset Management Agency to buy the bad bebts of the banks is nothing more than a means of shifting the burden of debt from those individuals and institutions that created the crisis onto the backs of working people. The Government is sacrificing the future of the country and lumbering future generations of workers and their children with massive debts in order to maintain the political and economic status quo. This approach is to give a blank cheque to the financial backer of Fianna Fail.

Working people will see their living standard reduced; they will be saddled with increased levies; and from 1 May the early child-care supplement will be halved and by the end of the year abolished. In addition, child benefit will be means-tested or even taxed in the budget for 2010, and the Christmas bonus will not be paid.

There were no original ideas for creating a single job or for stemming the avalanche of job losses. The natural resources of the country will remain in foreign corporate hands.

Instead of propping up bad banks we need to establish a state-owned and state-controlled National Development Bank and to concentrate capital to begin the necessary reorientation of national development towards an economy centred on the needs of our people. Statement ends.

Eugene Mc Cartan
087 9733414
or
01 6708707

Related Link: http://www.communistpartyofireland.ie

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   Guilty By Association     Wise Owl    Wed Apr 08, 2009 01:31 
   military cuts????     IshtarCelt    Wed Apr 08, 2009 05:30 


 
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