Working women almost certainly caused the credit crunch [Merged]

godtabh

Irish Times

EWTON'S OPTIC: THE ANSWER to all our problems is staring us in the face. It may even be quite literally staring at you, right now, across the breakfast table.

So put the paper down, stare back and ask yourself a selfless question.

Does the woman in your life really need a job?

Admittedly, this is not a fashionable question. From Iceland to Australia, men are blamed for causing the credit crunch, while a more feminine approach to finance is proposed as the solution.

Of course there will always be a place in the world of business for exceptional women. Women also have an important role to play in jobs that are too demeaning for men, like teaching. But the general employment of women is another matter. Indeed, working women almost certainly caused the credit crunch by bringing a second income into the average household, pushing property prices up to unsustainable levels.

Whether working women actually caused the credit crunch is now a moot point. The point is that removing women from the workforce would mitigate its effects.

Consider the issue of unemployment. There were 221,301 men on the live register last month and just under one million women in work.

Surely at least half these women have a partner who is earning? Surely at least half would be happier at home? One half of one half is a quarter and one quarter of a million is roughly 221,301. I think we can all see where this argument is going.

It would be ludicrous to suggest that women should be sacked purely to give men their jobs. In many cases, their jobs should be abolished as well.

Women are twice as likely as men to work in the public sector. They account for two-thirds of the Civil Service and three- quarters of all public employees.

Yet they are barely represented in the useful public services of firefighting and arresting people. Encouraging women to leave the workforce would go a long way towards addressing the budget deficit without any downside whatsoever.

Further benefits of sacking women have been uncovered by the Central Gender Mainstreaming Unit at the Department of Justice. According to its research, twice as many woman as men travel to work by bus and train, potentially halving the impact of cutbacks in public transport. However, it is probable that three-quarters of the Central Gender Mainstreaming Unit’s staff are women, so these figures should be taken with a pinch of salt.

While the economic case for fewer women in the workforce is irrefutable, we should also acknowledge the social advantages. Women make the majority of spending decisions in Irish households and make almost all of the purchases. They are far more likely than men to regard shopping as a leisure activity, far less likely to make savings and investments, and were even almost twice as likely to spend their SSIAs.

In short, women were the driving force behind the greed, consumerism and materialism of the Celtic Tiger years and it was female employment that funded their oestrogen-crazed acquisitiveness.

The time has come to build a more sustainable, equitable and progressive society. Why not make a start by telling your other half to quit her job? She can ask you for the housekeeping on Friday.

There is always some one else to blame!

phasers

Nah, let's just send all the men off to war.

Biggins

Some people just ask to be twatted with a bid club for their daftness.
That writer needs to be slapped solidly for the next year, 24 hours a day!

liah

I really kept expecting that to be from the Onion.

Peared

I'm all for the recession if journalists like that end up losing their job.


Edit - have re-read - tis a lame joke surely?

godtabh

phasers wrote: »

Nah, let's just send all the men off to war.

Wont work here. We are neutral

Professey Chin

I saw working women,assumed hoores and came in here ready to give out about high prices.
Now im severely disappointed

banshee_bones

face/palm of the effing year.


*FFS

Twilightning

So no prostitutes?

Blush_01

Phew, thank god someone has finally seen sense.

Women, back to your kitchen sinks!

phasers

kearnsr wrote: »

Wont work here. We are neutral

That's only until THE EVIL LISBON TREATY COMES IN and we create a EURO ARMY THE LIKE OF WHICH - THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN THE LIKE OF WHICH


You men are going to go and fight each other because deytukurjerbs

godtabh

Blush_01 wrote: »

Women, back to your kitchen sinks!

How did they every escape?

Professey Chin

kearnsr wrote: »

How did they every escape?

Cause YOU left the back doors open:mad:
Yep every single one of them

CreepingDeath

Blush_01 wrote: »

Phew, thank god someone has finally seen sense.

Women, back to your kitchen sinks!

True... and then we would save on the fruitless education of them too.

Women know your limits !

PurpleBerry

kearnsr wrote: »

How did they every escape?

There was a sale on at Manolo Blahniks.

midlandsmissus

"How did they every escape? "

Through women dying for the cause, after men treating them like sh*te for thousands of years.

Is the short answer!

godtabh

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Cause YOU left the back doors open:mad:
Yep every single one of them

**** my bad

Neesa wrote: »

There was a sale on at Manolo Blahniks.

Who is this Manolo fella?

MIN2511

Plain bollocks!!!!!

We are all to blame for the recession! The sooner we get that the earlier we can start to make things work for us..

godtabh

midlandsmissus wrote: »

"How did they every escape? "

Through women dying for the cause, after men treating them like sh*te for thousands of years.

Is the short answer!

Cry me a river

midlandsmissus

CreepingDeath wrote: »

True... and then we would save on the fruitless education of them too.

Women know your limits !

Why don't you DO something about it then.

Stop your whining.

Men are stronger than women so technically you could overpower us if you really wanted to.

Stop all the general whining that women should be at home, stay in the kitchen, never have an education or work.

Personally I would love a man versus woman war, i think i would kick some ass

abi2007

I would get rid of my man if he asked me to quit my job.

midlandsmissus

kearnsr wrote: »

Cry me a river

Yeah....good comeback

godtabh

abi2007 wrote: »

I would get rid of my man if he asked me to quit my job.

He'd never ask you to stop cooking. He might replace you if you were no good at it

BroomBurner

midlandsmissus wrote: »

Why don't you DO something about it then.

Stop your whining.

Men are stronger than women so technically you could overpower us if you really wanted to.

Stop all the general whining that women should be at home, stay in the kitchen, never have an education or work.

Personally I would love a man versus woman war, i think i would kick some ass

Women need to be victims, it gives them an excuse for their personal failings

:eek:

Scarinae

Er, you do all realise that Newton's Optic is supposed to be a joke? If you don't believe me, have a look at some of the other articles

midlandsmissus

kearnsr wrote: »

He'd never ask you to stop cooking. He might replace you if you were no good at it

My man cooks for me! I do rustle up a fry for him on sunday mornings, but he does all the rest of the cooking......:D

Biggins

kearnsr wrote: »

Wont work here. We are neutral

LOL of course we are. :pac:

javaboy

Fishie wrote: »

Er, you do all realise that Newton's Optic is supposed to be a joke? If you don't believe me, have a look at some of the other articles

I was wondering how long it would take.

Blush_01

kearnsr wrote: »

How did they every escape?

Well one day I was cooking dinner, and someone hit me over the head. Next think I knew I was in an office and had a ridiculous craving for designer handbags...

Jesus Wept

I knew it was the wimmins, even when it was the bears I knew it was the wimmins.

Agamemnon

I hear women are eating our swans.

Biggins

Blush_01 wrote: »

Well one day I was cooking dinner, and someone hit me over the head. Next think I knew I was in an office and had a ridiculous craving for designer handbags...

LOL - gives new (or revives an old) explanation for saying "Honey, I'm just going out clubbing!"

abi2007

Fishie wrote: »

Er, you do all realise that Newton's Optic is supposed to be a joke? If you don't believe me, have a look at some of the other articles

Yes we know!

SoWatchaWant

What a hero (cringe)

MikeStrutington

seriously, why would a journalist write a piece like that!? Even if he genuinely believes what he's saying its such an unfair and obviously futile thing to say!!

Blush_01

Dude, sometimes the truth hurts!

John Mason

i agree 200% with this statement

they are responsible for the state of the country, them and their deliquent latchdoor kids

i hope you burn in hell

Tar.Aldarion

Women are the cause of all of our problems.

Berti Vogts

Fishie wrote: »

Er, you do all realise that Newton's Optic is supposed to be a joke? If you don't believe me, have a look at some of the other articles

"Supposed" is the key word. It's just not very funny. At all.

godtabh

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Women are the cause of all of our problems.

Beer is the cause of and solution to all lifes little problems including women

Wibbs

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Women are the cause of all of our problems.

Nope our willies are.

Possibilities wrote:

"Supposed" is the key word. It's just not very funny. At all.

Nope it is. What are you? A woman?

Berti Vogts

Wibbs wrote: »

Nope it is. What are you? A woman?

Nope, I'm a bloke, 28. I just don't find any of this guy's stuff amusing to be honest. Horses for courses I guess.

panda100

Fishie wrote: »

Er, you do all realise that Newton's Optic is supposed to be a joke? If you don't believe me, have a look at some of the other articles

When I first read the piece this morning my jaw actually hit the ground! I couldn't believe what I was reading. I wrote a huge rant to The Irish Times and receieved a promt reply infroming me that the piece was indeed a satirical comment.

The whole article just absolutely made me want to scream, not laugh. Perhaps Im missing the funny part? Can someone enlighten me please?

Aodan83

I dunno, I think he made a few good points. Anyone else ever notice how big a joke politics has become since women got the vote!?Just sayin, its worth takin a look at!


*I kid, I kid!!*

K-9

Chris Morris does satire!

This guy does trolling.

Piste

It's kinda funny that most of the outraged people here are men, a lot of the women are playing along with it.


Kinda like when you tell a slightly risqué but not totally racist joke, the ethnic minority will probably laugh longest and hardest.

mollypop

Wohoo! A reason to quit my job and sit on my a$$ all day. Sign me up!

Gran Hermano

Joking aside women working, particularly after marriage and having children, was a major factor in the crazy rise in Irish property prices.

As soon as banks set the maximum mortgage as a multiple of two salaries it was a case of property prices rising to that new maximum mortgage level.
Roll on people demanding higher salaries, both male and female, and we're in a wages/prices spiral.

Wagon

MikeStrutington wrote: »

seriously, why would a journalist write a piece like that!? Even if he genuinely believes what he's saying its such an unfair and obviously futile thing to say!!

I think it was a piss take actually! Your man who wrote it is a satirist :P

Legend.

mumhaabu

I blame the foreign women tbh driving our Irish women out of prostitution and into the Civil service with their far more attractive bodies.

**stirs pot** :pac:

Blush_01

panda100 wrote: »

When I first read the piece this morning my jaw actually hit the ground! I couldn't believe what I was reading. I wrote a huge rant to The Irish Times and receieved a promt reply infroming me that the piece was indeed a satirical comment.

The whole article just absolutely made me want to scream, not laugh. Perhaps Im missing the funny part? Can someone enlighten me please?

I don't think I've laughed as hard in a long time. Thanks Panda!