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22-02-2011 3:22pm #1

I was thinking of this ...one of the problems with Ireland is that we don't have enough people ..if our population was 20 million it would solve lot of our economic problems and make services cheaper due to economies of scale.

Junco Partner · 22-02-2011 3:27pm

if only we'd borrowed 20 million germans of the imf instead of all the money

red menace · 22-02-2011 3:31pm

Seems reasonable to me, lets hope all these extra people don't enjoy clean water

fakearms123 · 22-02-2011 3:35pm

YAY! More homeless people

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Snakeblood · 22-02-2011 3:37pm

fakearms123 wrote: »

YAY! More homeless people !

I SMELL A HOUSING BOOM

mandyarms · 22-02-2011 3:37pm

f0ggy92 wrote: »

if only we'd borrowed 20 million germans of the imf instead of all the money

Could we trade them for 20 million Dutch people? They know how to have a good time:pac:

Junco Partner · 22-02-2011 3:39pm

mandyarms wrote: »

Could we trade them for 20 million Dutch people? They know how to have a good time:pac:

we really would be a green country then

jordainius · 22-02-2011 3:42pm

Men of Ireland; go forth and fertilise!!

Pherekydes · 22-02-2011 3:47pm

mariaalice wrote: »

I was thinking of this ...one of the problems with Ireland is that we don't have enough people ..if our population was 20 million it would solve lot of our economic problems and make services cheaper due to economies of scale.

We had about 8 million back in the 1840's and look what happened then.

Snakeblood · 22-02-2011 3:51pm

Pherekydes wrote: »

We had about 8 million back in the 1840's and look what happened then.

Daniel O'Connell is elected the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin?

TheZohanS · 22-02-2011 3:54pm

mariaalice wrote: »

I was thinking of this ...one of the problems with Ireland is that we don't have enough people ..if our population was 20 million it would solve lot of our economic problems and make services cheaper due to economies of scale.

So why hasn't that worked for Spain for example?

22-02-2011 4:03pm

Or why has it worked for Holland?...for this to work as cure for a countries economic ills the said country has to be a small land mass with a large population which is mostly urban...just imaginer if Ireland had 2or 3 large cities with 5 million people in each

mikemac · 22-02-2011 4:06pm

With 20 million people we can become a rich country once again by building houses and selling them to each other and then releasing equity

Lawrence1895 · 22-02-2011 4:06pm

f0ggy92 wrote: »

if only we'd borrowed 20 million germans of the imf instead of all the money

Why Germans? Do you really want 19999999 more of my kind?

chillywilly · 22-02-2011 4:06pm

we may have a better football team if we had another 20 million in the country!

Snakeblood · 22-02-2011 4:07pm

mariaalice wrote: »

Or why has it worked for Holland?...for this to work as cure for a countries economic ills the said country has to be a small land mass with a large population which is mostly urban...just imaginer if Ireland had 2or 3 large cities with 5 million people in each

Holland is part of mainland Europe with the infrastructure benefits that implies. Trading partners that are separated by trains and highways, not sea.

Snakeblood · 22-02-2011 4:08pm

Lars1916 wrote: »

Why Germans? Do you really want 19999999 more of my kind?

Are you rich?

TheZohanS · 22-02-2011 4:12pm

mariaalice wrote: »

Or why has it worked for Holland?...for this to work as cure for a countries economic ills the said country has to be a small land mass with a large population which is mostly urban...just imaginer if Ireland had 2or 3 large cities with 5 million people in each

Care to explain your reasoning behind this.

By the way if we had a population of 20m at the moment we'd also have a larger national debt now and it would also be to scale of the population.

red menace · 22-02-2011 4:14pm

mariaalice wrote: »

Or why has it worked for Holland?...for this to work as cure for a countries economic ills the said country has to be a small land mass with a large population which is mostly urban...just imaginer if Ireland had 2or 3 large cities with 5 million people in each

Why not a land bridge or tunnel to Europe cut the costs of exports and imports.
Build a nuclear power station or two and cut the cost of electricity to the masses

Junco Partner · 22-02-2011 4:15pm

Lars1916 wrote: »

Why Germans? Do you really want 19999999 more of my kind?

well judging by your porn we'll take your women at least

Lawrence1895 · 22-02-2011 4:15pm

Snakeblood wrote: »

Are you rich?

Neither rich, nor poor

But I'm very good in saving money, looking for bargains and stuff like that...some people might even said, I'm stingy

Dravokivich · 22-02-2011 4:15pm

what I want to know... is would they be signing onto the dole?

if we can't get jobs for half a million... where are jobs for another 20 million going to come from?

A side of that... Health care as well... hospitals can't handle current population... i assume these 20 million are gonna be invincable?

Why not just build robot armies?

orourkeda · 22-02-2011 4:15pm

We should have a porn industry.

Lawrence1895 · 22-02-2011 4:22pm

f0ggy92 wrote: »

well judging by your porn we'll take your women at least

I don't know any porn, I'm innocent like an angel :pac:

Rented Mule · 22-02-2011 4:31pm

mariaalice wrote: »

I was thinking of this ...one of the problems with Ireland is that we don't have enough people ..if our population was 20 million it would solve lot of our economic problems and make services cheaper due to economies of scale.

Wasn't this the idea during the early years of the boom ?? Asking the diaspora to come back home.

How did that work out for them ?

WoollyRedHat · 22-02-2011 4:34pm

mandyarms wrote: »

Could we trade them for 20 million Dutch people? They know how to have a good time:pac:

They could bring all their weed! Although getting through customs would be a bit of a problem.. that's where the Germans come in.

mandyarms · 22-02-2011 4:52pm

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

They could bring all their weed! Although getting through customs would be a bit of a problem.. that's where the Germans come in.

We can use the Germans and then drop them at the last minute:pac:

WoollyRedHat · 22-02-2011 5:03pm

It's a plan, I'll go looking for Germans who are willing to fight the cause!

mandyarms · 22-02-2011 5:04pm

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

It's a plan, I'll go looking for Germans who are willing to fight the cause!

Make that Gullible germans:pac:

Setun · 22-02-2011 5:06pm

mariaalice wrote: »

Or why has it worked for Holland?...for this to work as cure for a countries economic ills the said country has to be a small land mass with a large population which is mostly urban...just imaginer if Ireland had 2or 3 large cities with 5 million people in each

True. Things are fine in the Netherlands as long as you live in one of the conurbations. If you're out in the back o' beyond you're as ****ed as you are outside the main cities in Ireland.

WoollyRedHat · 22-02-2011 5:07pm

mandyarms wrote: »

Make that Gullible germans:pac:

mmm, still though, don't rock the boat, better not mention the war.

mandyarms · 22-02-2011 5:15pm

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

mmm, still though, don't rock the boat, better not mention the war.

That is where we get in the French and blame it on them, problem sorted:pac:

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