Ireland by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #7 Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 06:14:07 AM EST
Even if things get worse, they won't be as bad as before it joined the EU. It was a complete basket case.

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It's political correctness gone mad!


hear hear! by Merekat (4.00 / 2) #8 Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 06:39:55 AM EST
When I was in primary school, our family was notable because my dad had a job. Mortgage interest rates were double-figures, and people were pouring out of the country.

The EU helped Ireland come from a place somewhere near current living standards in Lithuania and rural Poland to where it is now. That pace of development has a cost you don't evade by simply dropping out when the going is tougher again.

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