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PIGGS, alcohol consumption and poor fiscal governance

  • 05-10-2013 11:45pm
    #1
    fleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭


    So we all know Ireland has a problem with alcohol.
    Heck, I'm blind drunk writing this.

    However, I believe I've found more than a casual link between DECREASING alcohol consumption and poor fiscal governance.

    We all know by this stage that Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain have been the bad boy cheap borrowing drunkards of Europe. Except Ireland, which is

    Well here is an OCED graph that seems to indicate why.

    http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/9789264183896-en/images/graphics/g2-06-01.gif

    WE'RE ALL DRINKING LESS ALCOHOL in the period 1980 to present ... except Ireland, which is now Angela's good boy.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/angela-merkel-ireland-enda-kenny-bank-debt-1096700-Sep2013/


    So what think you AH?

    Should we all be getting wasted of a weekend to boost national GDP?

    Answers on a soaken beer mat please.

    fleet.


Comments

  • #2
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    Hand me a Beer

    21/25



  • #3
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    here ye go, enjoy.


  • #4
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Thinly veiled "I'm a struggling publican" thread. You might try linking the governance of Scandinavian states who drink us under the table to their alcohol consumption while you're at it.


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