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People power halts eviction
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21-02-2012 9:31pm#1
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Do you have any articles about this that are not so emotive? Something that might inform us what happened without the obvious bias?
The only intelligent thing I saw in that link is the first comment, ha, which goes completely against the argument
"1. Repossessions in Ireland are not “all too common”. They are 80% less common than in the UK.
2. Bondholder payments go onto our national debt, they do not come out of daily spending. The fate of that debt is yet to be decided.
3. People are being squeezed because Bertie Ahern gave them fake transfers with fake money that we do not earn, and that mess has to be unwound if we are to recover.
4. The Troika are giving us cheap money to pay for wages and salaries, and without them either we’d be borrowing more expensively or we’d be slashing welfare, PS pay and service costs by something like 30%.
5. The Toika are not our “masters” and we could have them out of the country by 9am tomorrow morning if we wanted to, and if we wanted to live with the consequences.
6. If this person isn’t repossessed, then neither is Paddy T. Developer or Sheila P. Solicitor from their homes on Shrewsbury Road or Orwell Park if they can’t pay their mortgage. Am I supposed to campaign to keep them in their houses too?
7. Does the repossessee here own any more property? Do they have high credit card or unsecured debt?
Ireland – a poor country pretending to be a rich one, in McWilliams acid phrase."
But seriously, OP, what happened?0 -
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Well hate to break the news to you, while you're here complaining about people attempting to stand up for something/anything in this shambles of a country the government the banks and the EU are making a mockery of YOU and ME and every other chump on the island.
Maybe wreak some havoc over there in Leinster house Captain?
really? You may be right in regards the bank bailouts, but lets just put that aside for the moment.
We spend a hell of a lot more then we take in as a country.
Right now, we are getting loans from EU/IMF with a much lower interest rate then if we were borrowing on the markets.
So with or without bank bailouts, we would be in same position.
So the EU/IMF are making a mockery of us by giving us loans at a cheaper rate???
Do you prefer we default, or maybe pay a much higher interest rate?
Do you prefer we cut our budget to exactly what we spend?
I don't get why you said the Government are making a mockery of You and Me, cause we had an election a year ago, it was all free, there have no major protests, opinion polls are strong for the Government and it all is fairly stable. So looking at it objectively, it seems the Government are acting exactly the same the majority of people want it to act.
and that my friend is democracy. It is the worst form of Government until you try anything else.0 -
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