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Joe Higgins and Jim Power debate the economic crisis

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Sunday April 19, 2009 19:30author by Mark P - Socialist Party (personal capacity) Report this post to the editors

Last Thursday, 16th April 2009, Joe Higgins, the Socialist Party candidate in the forthcoming European Elections and Jim Power, economist with Friends First, debated the current economic crisis. The debate took place in Wynne's Hotel, in front of a large crowd.

The debate was filmed and here are the first three video segments. The remaining sections will be added in the comments below.

Related Link: http://www.socialistparty.net

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author by Mark P - Socialist Party (personal capacity)publication date Sun Apr 19, 2009 19:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Here are parts four and five:

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author by mambomon - SPpublication date Sun Apr 19, 2009 22:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Part 6

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author by mambomon - SP - personal capacitypublication date Sun Apr 19, 2009 22:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors


I was looking forward to seeing this debate, thanks for posting Mark P.

Fair play to Jim Power for turning up but he was a disappointing and unconvincing opponent.
... His grasp of socialism , of what the SP stands for is poor, he even confuses the SP and SWP at the start of his speech.He was clearly ill prepared for this debate.
... He doesn't appear to have any conception of the state other than a bourgeois capitalist state
... He repeatedly states that he has no ideology, but Jim everyone has their own way of looking at the world, we all have ideologies, just because you are not conscious of yours does not mean you don't have one.
... In the last video he says "I happen to believe in the notion of entrepreneurial capitalism, an economy based on lot of small businesses, not on one or two big employers". Is this guy for real !. Lets just go back to the 18th century while we are at it and reverse 100's of years of the socialisation of labour. How the hell are we supposed to build cars or mobile phones Jim, lots of small businesses!

This guy gets serious air time on RTE, Newstalk etc.. It makes you wonder what economists are learning in our universities, but should we be surprised really, as the good man would say modern capitalism is like "the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells."

author by Cian Prendiville - Socialist Partypublication date Thu Apr 30, 2009 01:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Jim was very poor. He tried to paint himself as being soft and cuddly - he has come out on numerous occasions demanding the sacking of tens if not hundreds of thousands of public sector workers - cause obviously more unemployed people is just what we need!

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