Public/Private worker gap to grow

salonfire

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Yes, it literally was fine until the banks blew up the economy, nationally and internationally. But if you have a problem with the policy, you should take it up with the politicians who made the relevant decisions.

It was not fine ffs everyone knows that. It was built on sand using a housing bubble tax receipts to pump up spending.

AndrewJRenko

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Yeah, it's such a shame that the National Pension Reserve Fund had to be blown to bail out the (private sector) banks that ruined our economy not so long ago.

If you have a problem with the policy, you should take it up with the politicians who made the relevant decisions.

Twenty Grand

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Yes, it literally was fine until the banks blew up the economy, nationally and internationally. But if you have a problem with the policy, you should take it up with the politicians who made the relevant decisions.

This conversation is so 2009...

AndrewJRenko

Augeo wrote: »

Didn't the monkeys use the banks at all?

I don't think they would have passed the KYC checks, but you could always phone the zoo to check. Regardless, those who used the banks didn't bring down our economy, regardless of how stupid the individual decisions may have been.

AndrewJRenko

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

.............. Regardless, those who used the banks didn't bring down our economy..............

I'm fairly sure the cumulative amounts borrowed that became problematic to pay back was the issue. The users most definitely had their part to play. along with the actual banks and the various regulatory bodies.
Even simple things like how one must be an accredited product adviser to advice on certain products now, that's since the economic crisis...... the government / public sector were asleep on the job.

Augeo

Augeo wrote: »

I'm fairly sure the cumulative amounts borrowed that became problematic to pay back was the issue. The users most definitely had their part to play. along with the actual banks and the various regulatory bodies.
Even simple things like how one must be an accredited product adviser to advice on certain products now, that's since the economic crisis...... the government / public sector were asleep on the job.

cant pin the crash on public sector

silly to even try.

you look silly now.

Snow Garden

We all partied!

janfebmar

Deleted User wrote: »

cant pin the crash on public sector

Last time I looked the Regulator, dept of Finance and government were public sector. They were the ones employed to run the economy.

In other news today, I see in todays Examiner:
" It has emerged dead bodies have been left lying on trolleys at University Hospital Waterford.

A letter by four consultant pathologists has described bodily fluids leaking on to the floor and bodies decomposing in corridors.

It has caused "unspeakable trauma" to the families of those who have died, according to the letter."

Our health spending per capita (cost to the taxpayer) is in the top ten in the world and yet we have such a pathetic health service. Imagine if your nearest and dearest had bodily fluids leaking on to the floor and was decomposing in a corridor.

AndrewJRenko

janfebmar wrote: »

Last time I looked the Regulator, dept of Finance and government were public sector. They were the ones employed to run the economy.

The Government wasn't employed. They were elected, voted in by those who were dumb enough to be bribed with our own money. They explicitly chose a 'light touch regulation' model and gave the regulator feck all power to do anything.

janfebmar

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

The Government wasn't employed.

They and the dept of finance and the Regulator were all paid (and very well paid and pensioned) by the taxpayer.

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MrFresh wrote: »

Great news. The more time parents can spend with their children during their formative years the better for everyone.

An indisputable fact and overlooked by some parents who - in good faith- rush back to work to 'save' parental leave for later?

However I would qualify that...
The more time good parents spend with their children the better. If they're welfare-sponging wasterals no real benefit...

AndrewJRenko

janfebmar wrote: »

They and the dept of finance and the Regulator were all paid (and very well paid and pensioned) by the taxpayer.

They were indeed paid to implement the policy decisions made by Government using the regulatory system passed by Government

Deebles McBeebles

Any chance of some pet leave next? Takes a few weeks to bed a puppy in to the household.