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what if the country were do do this....

  • 05-04-2010 12:13pm
    #1
    great_pretender
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭


    All out, complete and total strike / shutdown, unequivocal and without deadline... a refusal to pay mortgages, electricity bills, life assurance, insurance, tax.... in fact anything,

    would we fell a little more empowered than we do now, would we not?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    great_pretender wrote: »
    All out, complete and total strike / shutdown, unequivocal and without deadline... a refusal to pay mortgages, electricity bills, life assurance, insurance, tax.... in fact anything,

    would we fell a little more empowered than we do now, would we not?

    My god.. It amazes me that you have equal voting rights to me.


  • #3
    keithg89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭keithg89


    hehe do do:p


  • #4
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    great_pretender wrote: »
    would we fell

    Absolutely correct, we would fall.


  • #5
    bazmaiden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


    I'd say the seriously ill patients in hospital or otherwise would love it!!!


  • #6
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,802 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    *popcorn*


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  • #7
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    great_pretender
    Banned

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    :confused:


  • #8
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,795 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Do you mean all stop working too?


  • #9
    Schism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    great_pretender wrote: »
    All out, complete and total strike / shutdown, unequivocal and without deadline... a refusal to pay mortgages, electricity bills, life assurance, insurance, tax.... in fact anything,

    would we fell a little more empowered than we do now, would we not?

    :confused: Chaos?


  • #10
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,404 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    great_pretender wrote: »
    would we fell a little more empowered than we do now, would we not?

    ask someone from that libertarian paradise of somalia for their views


  • #11
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    great_pretender wrote: »
    All out, complete and total strike / shutdown, unequivocal and without deadline... a refusal to pay mortgages, electricity bills, life assurance, insurance, tax.... in fact anything,

    would we fell a little more empowered than we do now, would we not?

    What exactly does this solve?


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  • #12
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    orourkeda wrote: »
    What exactly does this solve?


    We'd have world peace.


  • #13
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    TheZohan wrote: »
    We'd have world peace.

    What would Fox News do ?


  • #14
    spudmonkey17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭spudmonkey17


    great_pretender wrote: »
    All out, complete and total strike / shutdown, unequivocal and without deadline... a refusal to pay mortgages, electricity bills, life assurance, insurance, tax.... in fact anything,

    would we fell a little more empowered than we do now, would we not?

    If we need full scale anarchy to feel a little more empowered that doesn't say much about us does it? :rolleyes:


  • #15
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    great_pretender wrote: »
    All out, complete and total strike / shutdown, unequivocal and without deadline... a refusal to pay mortgages, electricity bills, life assurance, insurance, tax.... in fact anything,

    Lots and lots of follow-up letters! That's what! :mad:


  • #16
    Sofaspud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Sofaspud


    Rabies wrote: »
    What would Fox News do ?

    Suck


  • #17
    thinks too much
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭thinks too much


    we would all phone Joe and tell him what a disgrace it was and how in our day we just got on with it.


  • #18
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    we'd have no food.


  • #19
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,126 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    If nobody paid anything then you wouldn't have no money to not spend


  • #20
    Zigmund
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 145 ✭✭Zigmund


    Reminded of South Park:
    Stan: So it seems like we have enough people now. When do we start taking down the corporations?
    Hippie (takes a drag on his joint): Yeah man, the corporations. Right now they're raping the world for money!
    Kyle: Yeah, so, where are they? Let's go get 'em.
    Hippie: Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other.
    Hippie: Yeah, we'll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. A-and one guy who like, l-looks out for other people's safety.
    Stan: You mean like a baker and a cop?
    Hippie: No no, can't you imagine a place where people live together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?
    Kyle: Yeah, it's called a town.


  • #21
    The Aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    What would we do if that happened, i could have a sleep in. Instead of working two jobs and always tired, have to admit that i would love to not pay takes.


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  • #22
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    I'd like to think that it would be something like this...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd3hLlvvLw


  • #23
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    TheZohan wrote: »
    We'd have world peace.

    Awesome.

    I think I'll stay on the dole for the rest of my life so


  • #24
    tipperaryboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭tipperaryboy


    It would just cause chaos.


  • #25
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Why are we doing this?

    Eh, no. I'm pretty happy with my lot at the moment.


  • #26
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    So who is the OP, the great pretender???? Somebody doesn't want to be seen saying this . . .


  • #27
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    El Siglo wrote: »
    I'd like to think that it would be something like this...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd3hLlvvLw

    Jeez, that'd be awful. I hope someone shoots that hippie.


  • #28
    RMD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭RMD


    The government would receive no form of taxation at all and the country would be so ****ed on an epic scale the recession would seem like the Boom years in comparison.

    Not the answer you were looking for no?


  • #29
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    I would imagine the country would become something akin to the film Mad Max.

    Becoming a daily battle of good vs evil.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Bcov5SGU0


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