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Why Are Irish Farmers Above Criticism?

category national | eu | opinion/analysis author Tuesday August 16, 2011 18:42author by Paddy Hackettauthor email rasherrs at eircom dot net Report this post to the editors

Billions given to farmers by the state

Besides this pot of gold the farmers may receive other moneys from European revenue. Many of the farmers officially retire and receive a pension for this while their sons continue to farm. But many of these older farmers only officially retire. Many of them unofficially continue to work while picking up their regular pension. And as far as I know their pensions were not cut as were those of the public service.

The mainstream media (tv, radios and print) repeatedly attacks workers pay and conditions in the public service. Yet there is hardly a comment from them concerning the farmers which are on the whole self-employed business men. These self-employed according to figures for last year received 1.8 billion euros from the EU. One billion of this is paid from Irish tax revenue. The rest of it is paid by the EU itself.

As I understand it these farmers dont have to grow crops or breed animals to avail of these funds. Yet there is little discussion on this in the Irish media. Insstead themedia and others  endlessly attack public service employees. The leadership of these public service unions, including the teacher union leadership,ns contribute almost nothing to the defence of these workers.

Besides this pot of gold the farmers may receive other moneys from European revenue. Many of the farmers officially retire and receive a pension for this while their sons continue to farm. But many of these older farmers only officially retire. Many of them unofficially continue to work while picking up their regular pension. And as far as I know their pensions were not cut as were those of the public service.

Finally many Irish farmers are  "hobby farmers". They have had other jobs. They have worked in the building industry and some still do. And all the while they, as I understand secure grants etc from the state.

Related Link: http://paddy-hackett.blogspot.com

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Subsidies usually favour the rich.     Rational Ecologist.    Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:52 
   Good     pat c    Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:37 
   I'll keep my eyes on the real crimes, thanks anyway     yeah yeah    Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:47 
   Proletariat propping up the peasantry??     Rational Ecologist.    Fri Aug 19, 2011 13:00 
   Some interesting remarks and observation made in the above pieces.     Paddy Hackett    Fri Aug 19, 2011 17:58 
   farming ignorance     JoeMc    Sun Aug 21, 2011 18:33 
   Solving the Land Question     An Draigneán Donn    Mon Aug 22, 2011 00:37 
   Hobby farmers ??????     Mike Novack    Wed Aug 24, 2011 13:46 
   Hobby Farmers     An DD    Wed Aug 24, 2011 17:22 
 10   Some Realities     Arthur    Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:22 
 11   Keep to basics     Paddy Hackjett    Thu Aug 25, 2011 14:43 
 12   Arthur     An DD    Fri Aug 26, 2011 02:06 
 13   Farmers     Pat C    Fri Aug 26, 2011 12:35 
 14   Private Landed Property is Theft     An DD    Sat Aug 27, 2011 04:40 
 15   Parasites     An DD    Mon Aug 29, 2011 00:24 
 16   Wise up time     Arthur    Thu Sep 01, 2011 21:28 
 17   Good Article     Anne    Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:44 
 18   Farmers paint their Diesel.     Ex-Farmer.    Sat Sep 03, 2011 13:13 
 19   Arthur/Anne     pat c    Sat Sep 03, 2011 13:43 
 20   Nationalize Our Land     An Draigneán Donn    Sun Sep 04, 2011 01:45 
 21   End the Criminality of Private Land Ownership     An DD    Tue Sep 06, 2011 07:44 
 22   Nationalisation??     opus diablos    Tue Sep 06, 2011 13:08 
 23   No chance     Homesteader    Tue Sep 06, 2011 21:33 
 24   Nothing less than Nationalisation will do     An DD    Tue Sep 13, 2011 00:32 
 25   I think you're over-generalising     opus diablos    Tue Sep 13, 2011 14:19 
 26   No Evictions     An DD    Tue Sep 13, 2011 22:57 
 27   Further Remarks on Irish farmers and their parasitic nature     Paddy Hackett    Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:45 
 28   Two points in response     T    Wed Sep 14, 2011 13:39 
 29   Response to commentator above     Paddy Hackett    Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:33 
 30   Clarification     T    Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:49 
 31   Obvious Whingers.     Germanic.    Thu Sep 15, 2011 13:00 
 32   sincere regrets, germanic..     opus diablos    Thu Sep 15, 2011 14:18 
 33   Re. Clarification by T     Paddy Hackett    Thu Sep 15, 2011 14:33 
 34   let's give capitalism a chance ?     JoeMc    Thu Sep 15, 2011 15:14 


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