Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger
According to Huffington Post, the following 2010 interview that Michael D. Higgins, the current president of Ireland, did with Boston conservative radio talk show host Michael Graham went viral recently.
SOURCE
Michael D. Higgins, Ireland President, Takes Down Tea Party Pundit Michael Graham (AUDIO ) [Huffington Post]
I always solve the world’s problems.
All divorce and custody lawyers are assigned to both parties from a pool of public service lawyers, specially trained. (Nobody buys deals, custody, etc.)
Admissability of evidence must become better quality-wise.
Custody of children should fall to the woman, unless good quality evidence (ie physical evidence, not agency opinions) is provided. Even then there must be a trial
period to ascertain if the problem is permanent. (Some exceptions may require temp foster homes with visiting rights for both)
To this case:
What does she pay him? Why does she pay at all considering the differences in incomes?
Who the PHUCK produced this system`?
He would not get crap in Sweden. No wonder women here are having babies and saying goodbye to having husbands. Don’t have any stats. but there are lots of them.
“When I need my needs to be taken cared of, I can arrange that. Meanwhile don’t have to put up with a guy.”
Love and companionship is evidently found somewhere here by them.
Maybe Obama should switch to Guiness!
In case anybody believes you have the basics when you work two or three jobs, try this one:
A woman has three children but she had them with a guy she went to high school with (the first was born when she was 17) and he was a music major (magnet school in DC) and she was a dance major (auditioned, chosen for talent). Her religion did not permit abortion. Then he married her, went to college, she stayed home with the kids, he took her to live in a remote place in the Poconos, she had no money of her own, came to have no profession because dancers who have had three kids and were not on the market all that time cannot find work.
He got a good job on Wall Street and commuted to Poconos. He got addicted to porn and found himself new interests including a new woman who did NOT want to share him with his wife; he told his wife, who was entirely dependent upon him for income, that he’d give her half the tax return that year and she could get a lawyer, he’d get one, and they’d amicably divorce. But he signed HER name on the form and took all the return, got a lawyer, left her without, and sued. She borrowed money from ME and got a lawyer and the thing began. He cut off the heat in her house, in the middle of winter in the Poconos, saying she’d have to give the kids to him or they’d freeze. I gave her money for heating oil. Her lawyer worked out a deal so she could get divorced and go off and live in Suburban NJ so she would not be stuck in the Poconos. Almost as soon as she had the house and had moved and the father had his deal in place for the divorce, he sued for custody and she had no more money for more lawyers and he won in a minute, saying she wanted to take the kids out of state and she couldn’t support them blah blah. Then he sued for child support, and then for increased child support. This took place five years ago and he has not yet allowed a single visit.
This woman had to work in a sandwich shop from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. to start, and her income was less than one/third the amount of her child support added to the amount of her mortgage, utilities and taxes. She then had to add a job from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and get jobs “off the books” on weekends, doing whatever people would pay her for, short of prostitution. She cleans houses, walks dogs, carries boxes, does bedside nursing, baby-sitting, you name it. She is over $2,500 behind in child support and may be jailed for six months soon to teach her not to be a deadbeat parent. She has had neither health insurance nor health care all this time and she still doesn’t own a car, so she uses public transportation and has, upon occasion, fallen asleep on the bus, overshooting her stop and being threatened with losing her job. Her budget is such now that has what is considered $12.00 “disposable income” per month, and she has never been able to pay back her debts. She can’t sell her small three bedroom house (she got the three bedroom house imagining she’d have it for her children to live in with her at the time of the divorce!) because it’s under-water.
She graduated from a magnet high school in Washington DC. She has never committed any crime, not even a misdemeanor. What is wrong with this picture? If she gets one serious illness or requires even out-patient surgery for something as she nears the age of 40, her entire life is in ruins and she is on the street. Figure this one!
I don’t even open my mouth to suggest to this woman that she should not have had three kids — I used to send her $50 a month but then I had to stop because I couldn’t afford it. People like her — you can stand ANYWHERE in this country and throw a STONE and you will hit someone like her.
Thank Goodness for doers, not just talkers. And thanks Malsha for the idea.
OL, did you invite him to join? Think of getting snatchs of that here. And the possible future I won’t speculate on.
Oro Lee, you da BEST! (If in the future I run into money I’ll also print, beribbon and send, because I’m a luddite at heart).
For Malisha
Just sent “America’s #1 Legal Blog is President Higgins #1 Fan Club (minus a few wankers)” along with web address for this thread to http://www.president.ie/contact/
HA HA HA Somebody send this thread to Bad Boy Higgins, please, somebody print it up and send it to him with a pretty green ribbon on it HA HA HA he would LOVE IT, puh-leeez somebody (I haven’t got a printer and can’t afford postage to Ireland boo hoo — somebody PUH-LEEZ!)…
“What the deems don’t understand is who the hell is going to party for this? We are already taxed to poverty…….”
Where are these taxes going?
Try the defence budget as one candidate..
Add in big spends that are not included in that – like Homeland Security and the interest on the massive debts incurred in paying for disastrous wars.
Yes, the US needs a defence capability, but hundreds of billions are being blown as a result of basically criminal foreign policy.
“Well, if you want to defeat the pig, sometimes you have to get down in the swill with it.”
That idea is trumped by
“Never wrestle with a pig. The pig enjoys it, and you just get covered in sh*t.”
The pig sty is the home ground of the pig. They know every inch of it.
Mr Quack:
So would you also prefer the President’s Cabinet consist of “A black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple”?
Mister Quack here. I am a duck. Stanley, is the guy who created the Dogalogue Machine for the dogs and the preacher who all address this blog in writing. They bark into the machine and it turns it into English gibberish. Well, Stanley modified the machine so that ducks can quack into it. So now it is dogs, dolphins, ducks and one preacher. I speak for ducks only.
On the topic at hand it seems to me that the Micks need few outlets for speaking aloud. Perhaps this smiling Jack Russell on the screen needs a leash. Some comments above suggest that the schmuck is a socialist. That word does not mean anything anymore. We have some schmuck running for President who claims to be a Nazi who promulgated a socialized medical program in some state which calls itself Mass and seldom goes to mass. Then this self proclaimed Bain of Capitalizm hires on some schmuck Irish guy who has big ears and looks like a five year old with diapers. His name is a reverse of Rand Paul and he talks like one too. So here we are in America with a gypsie, Mormon, Michigan born without papers, socialist with an Irish big eared child, running for President and Vice President and the best rap they can come up with is dont vote for the half black guy from Hawaii who does not have proof that he was not born in Kenya. I will chose the half black guy from Kenya over the gypsie mormon and his Mick sidekick.
Before the Messiah granted us the gift of his socialized healthcare, anyone could go in a hospital and get that “basic healthcare” this kook is talking about. What the deems don’t understand is who the hell is going to party for this? We are already taxed to poverty similar too what bill clinton did too us. We can’t take anymore of this socialism bs.
leejcaroll: This is something I have been ranting about for the past three years. The Democrats have always tried to be the ‘adult in the room’ and have tried to avoid the gutter-fights that the Republicant’s seem to enjoy. Well, if you want to defeat the pig, sometimes you have to get down in the swill with it. Maybe, if we win this election, it will be a lesson learned.
Thanks for sharing; I always felt the Irish are so much like my ‘tribe’, the Flemish.
I don’t see how the same person can say:
1. “We seem to work harder and harder for less and less while the corporate overlords grin and laud themselves for making us work more for less.”
2. “The reason corporations are such a problem is because we regulate them too heavily.”
There was no contridiction. I’m assuming you were thinking “That’s why you can’t afford basic neccesities on a low wage, 40 hours per week job,” contradicted my previous statement….
“If someone is working 2-3 jobs and can’t make ends meet, they have problems and are blowing their money on something they’re not telling you about.”
I’m saying that if you work 2-3 jobs you CAN afford basic neccesities. I’d rather see us only have to work one 40/week job to afford basic neccesities, including healthcare. This is why I pointed out that you can’t afford basic neccesities NOW on a low wage 40/week job….because I wish you could and it’s the corporations/FED’s fault we can’t 🙂
We could care for the truly destitute on a 1% tax or less. They don’t need to live like kings or the middle class, which isn’t doing very well anyways.
The reason corporations are such a problem is because we regulate them too heavily. They have too much to lose by NOT trying to corrupt legislators to pass favorable legislation. The free market no longer decides which corp’s rise and fall. Government regulation does, and so it behooves them to throw millions at lobbying efforts.
There was a recent study that shows a full time job at minimum wage will not pay for an apartment rent in most cities. Wait until we start having food inflation from this current drought. You have no idea how the working poor have to live.
You contradict yourself by admitting people cannot afford to live, even the basic necessities, on a 40 hour per week job. The corporate overlords have taken all the increase in profits from the computer age- massive increases in productivity- from all workers.
I place blame on these multinational corporations who are, no doubt, benefiting from the FED policies and who own our government now. All while they sit on trillions of dollars, refusing to invest in R&D or investing in the real economy, laying off workers and calling for ‘austerity’.
Yes, the problems are systemic, but blaming the poor for any of this is absurd.
Nothing special, just an angry guy with a bad attitude and an accent. His whole argument was predicated on “people working 2-3 jobs all day and not having all their basic neccesities met.” If someone is working 2-3 jobs and can’t make ends meet, they have problems and are blowing their money on something they’re not telling you about. Assist the widows, the injured, and the stupid, I agree, although I’d rather see them depend on the chairty of individuals voluntarily donating. However, if you can walk, and have at least one hand, you can do something for the state to earn that welfare you’re getting. I don’t believe in extracting the fruits of someone’s labor, via taxes, with the force of law, guns, and prison behind you to give to people who are just lazy.
I think the main problem is the devalutation of the American currency by the Federal Reserve and the tentacles of corporations finding their way ever deeper into the halls of power in the U.S. government. That’s why you can’t afford basic neccesities on a low wage, 40 hours per week job. Inflation from printing money is a massive tax on everyone and is sucking the life out of our economy. We seem to work harder and harder for less and less while the corporate overlords grin and laud themselves for making us work more for less. This inflation tax is supposed to buy us stability and safety in our investments. Instead we have non-stop boom bust cycles as the FED inflates bubble after bubble. We also have everyday people’s investments getting wiped out by the busts while the quickly shrinking middle class pays for the banks own willful malinvestment. So much for safety and stability. Those social security payments are becoming more and more worthless, are they not?
I have visited Ireland and love it and the people. He is simply a typical Irishman in his candor and decency.