Dublin workers forced to queue at soup kitchen due to 'crazy' rent prices

Idbatterim

another day, another ongoing scandal! link is below. The working poor, but deemed rich enough to pay a marginal tax rate of 50 percent over the pittance of about 35,000! Going to food banks! They'll have hundreds of millions more to throw at welfare this budget though, for this with guaranteed incomes courtesy of the working crippled! The gall of the world class welfare brigade to, to complain about the camels carrying this banana republic, absolutely financially screwed, partly because of an outrageous welfare bill is disgusting!

I prey one day, there will be a party that actually represents the tax payer!

Id say many of this crowd contributing towards the largest turnover KrispyKreme in the WORLD! out of 1300 stores, in blanchardstown, are the ones complaining they cant afford the back to school costs!

https://lovindublin.com/food/the-blanchardstown-krispy-kreme-is-the-companys-most-profitable-branch-in-the-world

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/dublin-workers-homeless-soup-kitchen-16820285

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CelticSeaShip

This is Leos gay happy Ireland.

Idbatterim

CelticSeaShip wrote: »

This is Leos gay happy Ireland.

a young "progressive" leader! LOL!!! hanging out his own generation and the one below it, to dry! Worse than any other career politician taoiseach we have had!

Raconteuse

Love when this guy loses the plot.

Everything is the government's fault. Even historical occurrences.

Potential-Monke

I hate this 'build more social housing' as the resolution. Tackle the crazy high rents, the last thing we need is more income tax being spent on this. Rent should be capped at a certain % over the cost of a mortgage. Rent up to twice the cost of a mortgage is just not sustainable, and building more free houses won't resolve that.

for my sins i read it

mention of anyone paying the higher rate of tax-none

Fr_Dougal

Lee O’Neill, a software developer who queued for food at the weekend, said: “I’m at the soup kitchen because I need to save up money for a deposit.

Should be in the stinge thread.

Potential-Monke

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I hate this 'build more social housing' as the resolution. Tackle the crazy high rents, the last thing we need is more income tax being spent on this. Rent should be capped at a certain % over the cost of a mortgage. Rent up to twice the cost of a mortgage is just not sustainable, and building more free houses won't resolve that.

owners could just pay the mortgage off over 15 years instead of 25

what rent would you put on a place with no mortgage?

dont think it works

Jim Bob Scratcher

Bunch of misers by the sound of it.

Kermit.de.frog

Hmm I'm not sure this topic belongs in After Hours where the most popular thread is the etiquette of taking a sh!te tbh OP.

#justsayin

NoteAgent

Hardly an unbiased article is it. Most populist website there is. It makes Journal.ie readers seem well-healed haha.

vriesmays

Anyone wondering why the city centre is full of homeless it's due to these do-gooder dopes. Imagine working in a shop in O'Connell St and getting harassed weekly from some of their customers.

RobbingBandit

There won't be hundreds of millions to throw at anything other than political pensions

Alrigghtythen

Bull****

corner of hells

vriesmays wrote: »

Anyone wondering why the city centre is full of homeless it's due to these do-gooder dopes. Imagine working in a shop in O'Connell St and getting harassed weekly from some of their customers.

I'm a project worker in homeless services and despite residents being fed and watered in the hostels I work in , they still go out to the soup runs for a bit of grub and to see what clothes , donations are available.
A couple readily admit to collecting clothes at these soup runs , washing and drying them and then selling them online.

These clowns running these soup runs need a kick up the hole along with that slap head Anthony Flynn.

kneemos

Some soup.

freshpopcorn

Mod NoteMoved from After Hours to Current Affairs/IMHO please follow local guidelines!

Sonny noggs

I like soup.

id always look askance at those a bit quick to take the soup...

JohnnyFlash

The gubberment.

suicide_circus

"forced"

kneemos

Sonny noggs wrote: »

I like soup.

Poor craters. Only a bit of bacon and a few praties for days.

vriesmays

corner of hells wrote: »

These clowns running these soup runs need a kick up the hole along with that slap head Anthony Flynn.

They're only doing it to shame the Government. Too dumb to do this outside the Dáil instead of the GPO.

tigger123

Any story or a post with a Dublinlive link deserves a wide berth.

riffmongous

They should just go on the dole then themselves, simple

Allinall

Quote from the article

70% of the earnings is going on rent. That leaves them with nothing.

Couple of questions come to mind.

How does 30% equal nothing?

How do they eat for the other 6 days of the week? Are they buying their lunch from a deli?

Why are they taking food from the genuinely needy?

Portsalon

suicide_circus wrote: »

"forced"

At gunpoint. By the Army Ranger Wing. One poor chap who said that he wasn't really hungry was beaten up by ten Military Policemen and thrown head first into the Liffey. Didn't see it myself, but the lad who told me swears that it happens every week.

NoteAgent

Allinall wrote: »

Quote from the article

70% of the earnings is going on rent. That leaves them with nothing.

Couple of questions come to mind.

How does 30% equal nothing?

How do they eat for the other 6 days of the week? Are they buying their lunch from a deli?

Why are they taking food from the genuinely needy?

You answered your own question. It doesn't leave them with nothing. It leaves them with 30%.
More pot stirring by this populist rag....its the last thing we need considering we're heading into a recession fairly soon

freshpopcorn

I wonder do any of them have iPhones and have gone on holidays this year?

Viscount Aggro

What sort of fcukwit pays 70% of their income on rent?
Theres a time to stand up for yourself, and be a man.
Its a rigged system, and its time either break the system, or leave.
You cant fight city hall. Theres vested interests in keeping rents high, while working stiffs finance the social welfare tenants.
You are either at the bottom, or at the top of earners - there you can use accountants to hold on most of your income.

As a middle earner, you have a target painted on your back.

Alrigghtythen

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I wonder do any of them have iPhones and have gone on holidays this year?

They are hungry not poor.

GreeBo

Did Lee O'Neill tweet this on his iPhoneX by any chance?

ILoveYourVibes

I don't get it.

what is the connection between doughnuts and a soup kitchen ..?

I think you have lost the plot op. Sorry.

Blanch is a large place with many different economic classes.

wiggle16

Idbatterim wrote: »

another day, another ongoing scandal! link is below. The working poor, but deemed rich enough to pay a marginal tax rate of 50 percent over the pittance of about 35,000! Going to food banks! They'll have hundreds of millions more to throw at welfare this budget though, for this with guaranteed incomes courtesy of the working crippled! The gall of the world class welfare brigade to, to complain about the camels carrying this banana republic, absolutely financially screwed, partly because of an outrageous welfare bill is disgusting!

I prey one day, there will be a party that actually represents the tax payer!

Id say many of this crowd contributing towards the largest turnover KrispyKreme in the WORLD! out of 1300 stores, in blanchardstown, are the ones complaining they cant afford the back to school costs!

can you not, hear the in-dignation in the, OP's first POST!!! taking a complicated social, problem and inexplicably pairing it with, something completely unrelated ! DONUTS complaining about, BLANCHARDSTOWN schools paying, back to KrispyKreme costs! can't afford tax payer working crippled, FOOD BANKS!

scandal, CAMELS, EVERYWHERE! WELFARE !!

Pinch Flat

Could be worse, they could be queuing for donuts....oh wait

the dark phantom

Viscount Aggro wrote: »

What sort of fcukwit pays 70% of their income on rent?
Theres a time to stand up for yourself, and be a man.
Its a rigged system, and its time either break the system, or leave.
You cant fight city hall. Theres vested interests in keeping rents high, while working stiffs finance the social welfare tenants.
You are either at the bottom, or at the top of earners - there you can use accountants to hold on most of your income.

As a middle earner, you have a target painted on your back.

After living in the Netherlands for a period when I was younger I could see what a joke the housing situation here was becoming during the boom so I went on the housing list, Just as well I did as the current situation is scandalous, I got a fine new house just before the rents started to climb. People are being made fools of here regarding housing, nimbyism and the age old Irish tradition of over complicating things have a large part to play in it.

Thelonious Monk

This is absolute nonsense. I could eat 2 healthy enough meals for a day of tuna and pasta and some veg for probably 3 euros. As if they can’t afford to eat.

Gatling

The way I see it is if people are giving away free hot food then plenty of people will only be too happy to que for it regardless if they actually need it or not ,

I remember when it was reported about a new service that Popped up in clondalkin where a person was bringing dominos pizza to families for free ,it started with one house and then a second and eventually several streets and the person who set it up couldn't believe how many people were coming to them needing free Domino's.

colm_mcm

Gatling wrote: »

The way I see it is if people are giving away free hot food then plenty of people will only be too happy to que for it regardless if they actually need it or not ,

I remember when it was reported about a new service that Popped up in clondalkin where a person was bringing dominos pizza to families for free ,it started with one house and then a second and eventually several streets and the person who set it up couldn't believe how many people were coming to them needing free Domino's.

So he started with one and then all of a sudden the one next to that and then the one next to that?

previousmass

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Should be in the stinge thread.

He is saving for a rental deposit not a deposit to buy a house.

lola85

Anyone remember the Qs when Macdonalds we’re giving out free breakfast Macmuffins?

This is exactly the same.

Irish people are miserable and love a freebie at any opportunity.

is_that_so

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

This is absolute nonsense. I could eat 2 healthy enough meals for a day of tuna and pasta and some veg for probably 3 euros. As if they can’t afford to eat.

That budgeting and cooking thing seems to be a non-existent skill in some people. There is a woman in the UK who blogs about this. Started out on about £10 a week.

https://cookingonabootstrap.com/

paw patrol

is_that_so wrote: »

That budgeting and cooking thing seems to be a non-existent skill in some people. There is a woman in the UK who blogs about this. Started out on about £10 a week.

https://cookingonabootstrap.com/

people don't want to have a hard life. the concept of doing without in order to budget is lost on many.

Pinch Flat

Brings me back to he depths of the recession when RTE were doing a vox pop on Henry Street in central Dublin. The jist was how people were managing in the recession.

"So, tell me, are you struggling to feed your family", to which the woman (a rale Dub) replies"ah jaysus it's tough, cornflakes breakfast lunch and tea, childer and all going hungry. It's terrible;le".

"Do you mind me asking , do you have Sky TV", asks the interviewer, to which the woman replies"ah jaysus of course I have, you couldn't be doing without the Sky TV".

is_that_so

paw patrol wrote: »

people don't want to have a hard life. the concept of doing without in order to budget is lost on many.

The irony is that such an approach usually leads to an easier life.

Idbatterim

your points are bang on, which is my primary point. I cant be bothered hearing these fools not being able to afford back to school costs, due to the simple reason, for the vast majority, that they are appalling with money!

vriesmays

Anyone homeless should eat from Dealz - nuts, dried fruit, bread, malt loaf, vitamin pills, bottled water, breakfast cereal, milk. Healthier than the stodge they serve outside the GPO.