Comments on: Superficial stuff: DO uses and endorses MSF* http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/27/superficial-stuff-do-uses-and-endorses-msf/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:15:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Seán Báite http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/27/superficial-stuff-do-uses-and-endorses-msf/#comment-68974 Seán Báite Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:56:41 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/27/superficial-stuff-do-uses-and-endorses-msf/#comment-68974 Can't be as magnanimous about the French equivalent (ANPE/AFPA) Gar - their main aim appears to be pushing your head further under the water or finding an excuse to deprive you of the money you're entitled to since you paid up for it in the first place. Have had little enough experience with FAS - apart from my missus teaching French very briefly for them in the 90s on a contract with a language school that turned out to be a bunch of fairly dodgy so and sos and never paid her. Not FAS's fault, I suppose. Donagh, has all that money spent by Mary at the hair salon allowed her to morph into Martine AUBRY (who just won the leadership of the French socialist party in very acrimonious circumstances) ? As to MSF, have the Big Black album in a box somewhere but couldn't be arsed digging it out - gowann, tellusworritiz... Can’t be as magnanimous about the French equivalent (ANPE/AFPA) Gar - their main aim appears to be pushing your head further under the water or finding an excuse to deprive you of the money you’re entitled to since you paid up for it in the first place.
Have had little enough experience with FAS - apart from my missus teaching French very briefly for them in the 90s on a contract with a language school that turned out to be a bunch of fairly dodgy so and sos and never paid her. Not FAS’s fault, I suppose.
Donagh, has all that money spent by Mary at the hair salon allowed her to morph into Martine AUBRY (who just won the leadership of the French socialist party in very acrimonious circumstances) ?
As to MSF, have the Big Black album in a box somewhere but couldn’t be arsed digging it out - gowann, tellusworritiz…

]]> By: Gar http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/27/superficial-stuff-do-uses-and-endorses-msf/#comment-68972 Gar Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:48:44 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/11/27/superficial-stuff-do-uses-and-endorses-msf/#comment-68972 I've had a high regard for Fás because some years ago I did a year-long community employment scheme when unemployed and during this attended short courses on computers and bookkeeping. Some time ago, again unable to find work, I also did a six-month computer course under Fás auspices, receiving a travel allowance and subsistence allowance that worked out at 25 per cent more than the usual dole payment. It helped me psychologically and technically and enabled me to research and write things. Believe me when I say that their training courses at designated centres are very professional. The community employment and other schemes helped a lot of low-income people and communities in small and big places where employment prospects were, and still are, zero. I know several individuals who might have cracked up if these schemes hadn't existed . I am saddened by recent revelations of exorbitant lifestyle spending by people at the top of the state organisation and their associates. We have a number of semi-state and NGO institutions which over decades have done lots of useful things to create enterprise and jobs and alleviate the problems of people struggling with disabilities of all kinds, financial, physical and educational Institutions tend to expand their administrative and career infrastructure - it happens with third world aid agencies and other charities too - and a gap often widens between the lifestyles of middle and top management and the target groups that are supposed to benefit from the work that institutions were originally set up to do. Have you ever heard about The Poverty Industry? I’ve had a high regard for Fás because some years ago I did a year-long community employment scheme when unemployed and during this attended short courses on computers and bookkeeping. Some time ago, again unable to find work, I also did a six-month computer course under Fás auspices, receiving a travel allowance and subsistence allowance that worked out at 25 per cent more than the usual dole payment. It helped me psychologically and technically and enabled me to research and write things. Believe me when I say that their training courses at designated centres are very professional. The community employment and other schemes helped a lot of low-income people and communities in small and big places where employment prospects were, and still are, zero. I know several individuals who might have cracked up if these schemes hadn’t existed .

I am saddened by recent revelations of exorbitant lifestyle spending by people at the top of the state organisation and their associates. We have a number of semi-state and NGO institutions which over decades have done lots of useful things to create enterprise and jobs and alleviate the problems of people struggling with disabilities of all kinds, financial, physical and educational

Institutions tend to expand their administrative and career infrastructure - it happens with third world aid agencies and other charities too - and a gap often widens between the lifestyles of middle and top management and the target groups that are supposed to benefit from the work that institutions were originally set up to do. Have you ever heard about The Poverty Industry?

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