Ireland expects another exodus of workers

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Source: The Guardian

Emigration from Ireland to Britain, America and other parts of the world will reach levels beyond even those of the recession-stricken 1980s, a study has concluded.

Fifty thousand Irish people will seek to move this year, one of Ireland's leading economic thinktanks has predicted. The Economic and Social Research Institute has also projected that a further 25,000 jobs will be lost – most of these in the construction, financial and public sector. The 50,000 people the ESRI expects to leave compares to 44,000 who emigrated in 1989, the peak year for emigration during the 1980s.

These latest economic forecasts came on the same day that Ireland's prime minister, Brian Cowen, announced the date for a general election.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/20/ireland-exodus-workers-thinktank

[HereSince1628]

1. Why come to AmeriKay? China is where they want to go!

[GETPLANING]

2. What they are leaving out

Ireland just raised taxes and slashed benefits on its working people to protect the bondholders. You know the right wing talking point about the wealthy leaving Illinois because taxes were going up on the people who could most afford it?
Well, guess what happens when you raise taxes on those who can least afford it?

[Dappleganger]

3. Ireland already stole a bunch of American manufacturing jobs.

Why the hell they would want to come here is beyond me.

[sweetapogee]

4. they are

coming here to apply for some of the new jobs the stimulus created. Seems simple enough.

[applegrove]

5. And this from Ireland, a country held up as an example of a corporate mecca by the GOP press.