IMF Protest Song - A Hundred Thousand Welcomes to the IMF
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Lyrics
Céad míle fáilte - To the IMF
We hope we meet you on the streets - To fight you to the death.
And we know how you got here - Back room deal and open arms
As you try to suck the life from us - With your structural reforms
They just lit a fuse - It's time for us to choose
You must think we're fucking stupid - Feed our fears with blocks of cheese
It'll take more than dairy products - To keep us on our knees
Don’t talk to us about violence - You hypocritical scum
Just look at all our hospitals - And the homeless on the run
Destitution politics - Death by credit card
By you can't kill the love we have - For justice in our heart
Cos they just lit a fuse - It's time for us to choose
We'll walk as we talk to create – And tear the bullshit down
We gonna build democracy and we'll do it town by town
And it ain't just for the Irish, English, Scottish or the Welsh
Injustice has no border – Our lives before their wealth
Céad míle fáilte - To the IMF
We hope we meet you on the streets - To fight you to the death.
And we know how you got here - Back room deal and open arms
As you try to suck the life from us - With your structural reforms
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Dr. Pitchfork here.
If this is the sort of shite the Irish can expect from their intellectual class, then they're well and truly screwed:
I don't know whether to laugh or cry - Colm Tóibín
"But just now I don't care about sovereignty and I don't want to hear about dead patriots and how they might feel. I care about the actual problems which many of my compatriots are facing – losing their houses, their jobs, their dignity as citizens – and believe that the task of the Irish government is to defend the rights of those who are suffering as best they can rather than consider the fact that they have betrayed the memory of the patriot dead."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/20/colm-toibin-imf-in-dublin
No mention of bondholders in this entire load of it. The bondholders ARE the "actual problem," Colm Tóibín, you twit.
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