by bratticus » Wed 11 Feb 2009, 17:17:44
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'T')he purported war-profiteers will keep their positions of power and the little people will suffer horribly.
Even if some of the "evil" rich do suffer, it's a Pyrrhic victory. The disenfranchised will always suffer the sting of economic depression worse than anyone else.
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THE car park of St Mochta's Church in Porterstown, Castleknock, west Dublin, was full of 4x4s, its pews a swathe of black fur coats, expensive bags and designer sunglasses. As lawyers, models, politicians, broadcasters and sportsmen bowed their heads, it seemed as if all the city's jet set had come to say goodbye to Patrick Rocca: poster boy for the rise of the Celtic Tiger economy, and now potent symbol of its demise.
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As Rocca's coffin arrived at the church in a Bentley hearse, the mourners – who included Irish goalkeeper Shay Given and Bertie Ahern's ex-wife Miriam – must have felt they were marking the end not only of one of the country's biggest success stories, but of an unprecedented era of wealth and ostentation. In the 10 years after Ireland joined the euro, its economy seemed to boom: Dublin, once a byword for deprivation, was transformed into a nouveau-riche paradise, full of property millionaires who flaunted their success with flash cars, flash clothes and a 24/7 party scene. With them came nightclubs like Krystle, whose VIP section boasts a giant bed where customers can lie and watch football on a huge screen. And in tow was a battalion of WAGS, with their fake tans, their bling and their taste for champagne.
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