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All your discussion on budget cuts / 4 year plan announcements today goes here.

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  • 24-11-2010 10:28am
    #1
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hello folks,
    So today they're publishing the 15bn cuts plan, thought to hit the dole, the minimum wage and probably everything else.
    The Government will publish its €15bn plan for drastic savings today as it battles economic ruin against a backdrop of political turmoil and a further downgrading of the country's credit rating.

    Significant tax hikes, new levies in property and water and cuts to the dole and minimum wage are expected in the 150-page four-year budget road map.

    Taoiseach Brian Cowen has called for solidarity across the political system, while social justice campaigners demanded the poorest were spared.

    Opposition parties were warned the country’s bail-out was only secure if swingeing cuts and tax rises and a more detailed €6bn Budget on December 7, were passed.


    Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/drastic-cuts-plan-to-save-economy-482990.html#ixzz16BrgZx37
    [Mod]
    As this is big news and we don't want it to choke down AH, please keep all the discussion to this thread for the time being.
    [/mod]

    I believe the correct term to use in this instance is "Ah feck."


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    #2
    orourkeda
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    Let the cutting commence


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    #3
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    I need a haircut. Does that count?


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,978 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Hello folks,
    So today they're publishing the 15bn cuts plan, thought to hit the dole, the minimum wage and probably everything else.

    [Mod]
    As this is big news and we don't want it to choke down AH, please keep all the discussion to this thread for the time being.
    [/mod]

    I believe the correct term to use in this instance is "Ah feck."

    A lot of people might be leaning towards "Ah bollocko." instead.:(


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    #5
    Funkfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    Cuts?

    <snip>


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    #6
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    anyone know when it's being announced/released?


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    #7
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Hello folks,
    So today they're publishing the 15bn cuts plan, thought to hit the dole, the minimum wage and probably everything else.
    "
    Adam wrote: »
    anyone know when it's being announced/released?

    .


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    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    super-rush wrote: »
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    yes i can read that, i'm wondering if i should be keeping an eye out for it to hit news sites any minute or if i can relax until the turtlehead starts poking around lunch time


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    Funkfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    Adam wrote: »
    anyone know when it's being announced/released?

    2 o'clock afaik


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    #10
    senordingdong
    Registered Users Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    COME ON INCOME TAX HIKES!

    God I do love income tax hikes.


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    #11
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,249 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    We should protest! I don't know why yet, but I'm sure there'll be something in it which doesn't please me! C'mon! Anyone who doesn't protest with me hates Ireland!


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    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Any word on the Winter Cheese Allowance yet?


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    #13
    alexa5x5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 521 ✭✭✭alexa5x5


    NNNNOOOOO!! Dear god not another budget/economic thread!! :eek: How many ways can people post about essentially the same topic?!?


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    Penn
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    alexa5x5 wrote: »
    NNNNOOOOO!! Dear god not another budget/economic thread!! :eek: How many ways can people post about essentially the same topic?!?

    Actually, this is a new megathread for today's new announcement to try and prevent loads of threads being started later. The mods are thinking ahead. UNLIKE THE GOVERNMENT!! ROFL!!!!


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    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,373 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    This is going to be a mega thread ...so will someone do a short concise synopsis preferable in built points explaining what its all means .... then hight light your post with a star or something so i can find it ...thanks:D


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    jd007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    mariaalice wrote: »
    This is going to be a mega thread ...so will someone do a short concise synopsis preferable in built points explaining what its all means .... then hight light your post with a star or something so i can find it ...thanks:D

    i'll do it as concise as possible.

    we're fcuked.


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    #17
    giant_midget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭giant_midget


    I read over on another forum that rent allowance is being chopped for the long term unemployted...I would welcome this move as it's yet another drain on our countries finances, This will help to deflate the cost of renting a house for the average joe..

    Also step by step cuts for long term unemployed i.e money goes down as time goes on, I would welcome this also.

    From what i gather this is all aimed at people on the dole pre 2007, work shy loosers



    Alan


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    #18
    senordingdong
    Registered Users Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    jesusinaglanza wrote: »
    I read over on another forum that rent allowance is being chopped for the long term unemploytedAlan

    Why stop there!?

    I know I'll get alot of flack for this and I stand by it, but why does being a single parent absolve a person of paying their own way in the eyes of the Dept. of Social Welfare?


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    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    would everyone just shut the fcuk up until the bloody thing is announced. all this guessing and speculation, it's like the equivalent of masturbation for some of ye, i'd swear it.


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    #20
    giant_midget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭giant_midget


    Adam wrote: »
    would everyone just shut the fcuk up until the bloody thing is announced. all this guessing and speculation, it's like the equivalent of masturbation for some of ye, i'd swear it.


    Becase it is going to effect all of our pay packets, people are going to talk about this stuff...that is normal...


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    #21
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly... .


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    #22
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    • IMF are here
    • We're fuhked
    • The government won't tax rich people.
    • So that means you're paying


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    #23
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    hit the red button!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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    #24
    senordingdong
    Registered Users Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    Absurdum wrote: »
    hit the red button!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    How is Sky interactive going to help?


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    #25
    Chairman Meow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Chairman Meow


    Oh look, what a shocker, FF going back on their word on having an election in January. Election wont be until spring now apparently.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/no-election-until-spring-cowen-2433052.html


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    #26
    [Deleted User]
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    senordingdong wrote: »
    I know I'll get alot of flack for this and I stand by it, but why does being a single parent absolve a person of paying their own way in the eyes of the Dept. of Social Welfare?

    Too right. The solution is abortions. :pac:

    (No, seriously.)


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    #27
    ninebeanrows
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    Lads the budget is almost irrelevant at this stage.

    The amount if debt we are going to have to take on is unsustainable. It's either 30 years of decline or Default and 2-3 years of pain.

    We need to stand up, let the banks fail and start with a clean slate.

    Otherwise there will be no point on living in Ireland for the next 30 years.


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    #28
    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    Will there be beer?


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    #29
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    Lads the budget is almost irrelevant at this stage.

    The amount if debt we are going to have to take on is unsustainable. It's either 30 years of decline or Default and 2-3 years of pain.

    We need to stand up, let the banks fail and start with a clean slate.

    Otherwise there will be no point on living in Ireland for the next 30 years.

    this^

    plus:
    Ten yr bond yields rising sharply: SPAIN 5.06% PORTUGAL 7.06%IRELAND 8.71% GREECE 11.86%

    game over


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    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    Absurdum wrote: »
    game over

    Press any button to continue.


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    yom 1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭yom 1


    Aldebaran wrote: »
    Will there be beer?

    There will be more tax on beer........does that count?


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