The Key Problem With Democracy Is That It's Only a Four or Five Year Cycle

As the Western economy has shifted to Asia, in terms of manufacturing, a huge, basically blue-collar workforce has been undermined. Ireland is one of the very few countries that has re-industrialized in the last 40 years. We have built an entirely different manufacturing base, largely thanks to the Americans. So that means about 300,000 Irish people, like your brother, work in manufacturing,. making high-tech components and products.