This is another reason why I love Ireland. In few other countries in a newspaper article about a manufacturing plant closing would you get such a gracious, thoughtful perspective in relation to seeing such a painful event unfold.
I just read this in the Independent
"The dread day has arrived and the worst rumours are proved true. Although the job losses had been heavily signalled, nothing really prepares us for the realisation that the work is going and with it the salaries, the security, the mortgages, the immediate future.
People are saying that it's ironic that we trained the Poles who will now take 'our' jobs.
But you can't help but notice that many of senior Dell managers interviewed all day on the radio had a distinctly American twang to their Irish accents.
Who trained them? Whose jobs did Limerick take back in 1990 and keep for the last 17 years? What did they think in Texas when Michael said he was setting up in Ireland and giving 'their' jobs to us?
So perhaps this is part of that natural economic cycle that the economists are always talking about where manufacturing invariably flows to the locations with the lowest costs? We'll have lots of time to think about the answers for the next couple of years."
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Seeing this, and your above post (yes, I also think Obama is quite intelligent politically, and it seems-or at least i hope- that he's gathering people around him who will help most with economy etc, regardless of party) I was curious how the recession here is effecting you guys over there? Here at least, there's been a wave of job losses, and people are purporting that it will be similar to the Great Depression etc etc. What does it seem like from your side of the pond? I also think its a bit weird that in some ways it effects us less because we're studenting (albeit making loans slightly more creative) and are going in to medicine, which has comparable job security. It somehow makes me feel slightly guilty or something... And what sorts of responses is the Church/churches having as well?
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