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    Leaprechauns say wow!.
    
    So this is what happens to old politicians.
    
    Garret is already forgotten over here. His tenure of office is
    not remembered too fondly by the Irish. 
    
    Maybe he should have been European P.M., as he is billed as knowing
    a lot about it. He was supposed to know a lot about economics too
    (he held a chair in it at U.C.D.). Yet when we gave him an economics
    project for 4 years his record is as follows.
    
       Budget Deficit at start :      �850 millions.
         "       "    after 4 years : �1,550 millions.
    
       National Debt at start :       �12 billions .
       National Debt after 4 years :  �25 billions.
    
    Emigration re-started in 1983 and peaked in 1985/86 under his
    leadership. Unemployment went from 130,000 to 255,000 in the same
    period.
    
    Since he departed. Unemployment has stopped growing and is now
    at 245,000, but emigration continues. We now have one evil instead
    of two and that believe me is progress. Its still badness when we
    have to measure progress in those terms.
    
    Since he departed the buget deficit has been brought back to
    �780 millions (less than when he took over in 1982).
    
    Armed violent crime got much worse in his period of tenure. THe
    jails were full to bursting point. The prison population is
    down, and more importantly armed violent crime is down dramatically.
    
    OH! yeah, Garret can speak French, yet Franco-Irish relations were
    not great. He used to curry favour with Mgt. Thatcher at EC summits.
    Mr. Mitterand has visited Ireland twice since he left, and its well
    known that Franco-Irish relations are better than they have ever
    been. The present incumbent is known to be opposed to Thatcher at
    EC summit gatherings.
    
    Most of this man's reputation is not self made, but hyped by a 
    friendly press that was fed on public inquiries, tribunals, and
    wasted energy on untimely/ill-prepared referenda. The British media
    loved him as he was a pliant Irishman. A performing chimpanzee who
    played for peanuts when real political issues were to be worked.
    
    Snake says, would you give this man the financial controller's job.??
    

    
    
    
    	Mike: I guess .1 is your way of saying ......
    
    
    "I'd love to be there, but I will be busy on Thursday night. :-)
                                                                 
    
    	keVin

    Hey Wellie, 8^)
    
        It's cUlbert not cOlbert....8*)  But then what should I expect
    from some one that doesn't know that here in the US of A IRA stands
    for               I ndividual  
                      R etirement 
                      A ccounts
                           
    Something the Republician Party used to help us rich folk get richer.
      
    Ask keVin he has a bunch of them.
    
    I'll not be able to make the lecture I have Mid Terms that night.
    
    Do you know if it is to be taped?
    
    

                  Irrational.
                  Republicans.
                  Ad Nauseam.

    Hey Kevin....
    
        That's the best one yet    8*)
    
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    I love .7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    
    JO'R