Fund the question of illegitimacy, onerent tamules and so on.
These are questions which we as a cople are mature enough to decide and itle for ourselves without fear oziers or duplicity by salaried politiins and without the tragedy of. ane Lovett to remind us that such oblems exist in Ireland.
This is the quality of life in Ireland. -what passes for the quality of life, cause as well as all this, living stanrds here are being eroded by the apcation of Thatcherite ficies which deprive an mber of people of their right to a angıul existence.
obs According official employment in Ireland, uth, is now very close to 350,000.
five of the workforce al is one in thout a job. The real jobless figures, wever, must well over lion when we include all those arcially trimmed trom the lICS In the most deprived working class For our major ciles une Jodiess ures are much more staggering, with ar out of five workers having no job, no prospect of a job and, in cases, no experience even of a job.
of sufficient health educationa. absence of tacilities; deprivation deprivation.
Monetarist
monetarist miccasing those follow economic gospel, North and South?
tories are allowed to Lense reduced statistics, ing or a North and house-building back.
discretionary grants are withdrawn.
half a Where official pupils are made Led more than ever, Stres closed, pretends, many The economic and social hardship which accompanies this is evident in sub-standard overcrowded housing, inservices, inferior opportunities, total recreational piled upon through problems And what has been the reponse of the monetarist Where there are few jobs, more facclose. Where workers have jobs, their wages, in real Where there is sub-standard houstotal lack of housing, the patriotic CuL Where social welfare is already insufficient, it is restricted further and classrooms overcrowded and special educational needs exist, teachers are left on the dole and school. Where health services are need- uv pay iu liavel lu less medicine available free, hospitals and health cenhealth workers Come Calle become aimless allachons further adding to the spiralling misery.
In response to this, the Coalition government offers plan; they call it a National Pian an people a entitle it 'Building on Reality'!
It quite obviously is not a national plan because — for all the time spent in the Forum - it ignores the economic social cost of partition deliberately fails to recognise that Irish unity is a prerequisite of the economic independence required for progress.
But does it even address itself to the reality it claims to be building upon? Does it offer any hope to the people of the twenty-six counties to which it is addressed? On the contrary, it actually promises an increase in unemployment, cuts in public spending, redundancies in the public service, the removal of the remaining food subsidies and increased educational costs.
Pay the Thatcher and Fitzgerald
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