newERA privatisation of semi-states will only serve to worsen crisis | Joe Higgins.ie

newERA privatisation of semi-states will only serve to worsen crisis Joe Higgins.ie: This large scale push for privatisation is being propelled relentlessly by the EU/IMF/ECB. Invited into Ireland last November by the Fianna Fail/Green government, the so called Troika was supposed to come to the assistance of the Irish people in their hour of need. Their main agenda, however, has been to salvage European bankers and speculators from their disastrous gambling in the Irish property bubble when they lent tens of billions to Irish developers and banks in the hope of a quick profit.?