ck_fluffy_32 wrote: » They already have. So you really shouldn't comment if you don't know someone's personal situation. I would also NOT equate my relative's struggle with schizo-affective disorder with some filthy junkie on the street. You HAVE to realise that some people are homeless because they are a substance abuser - not every junkie is a poor addict that can be helped by therapy. Some are just wasters.
Oodoov wrote: » Did i state otherwise? In fact if you read my previous posts you'd know i lay the blame squarely at the feet of the electorate who keep these fools in power. Like i said you reap what you sow.
Wanderer78 wrote: » i disagree with this electorate blaming, i do stand by the uninformed, irrational statement made earlier.
Wheeliebin30 wrote: » Who's reaping what? Maybe the majority of people who voted in the government are happy with the job they are doing and it's a minority who are up in arms because they can't get that free house they so badly want.
Oodoov wrote: » Any links to the free houses?
Oodoov wrote: » Any links to the free houses? Also the majority are happy im not disputing that.
Wanderer78 wrote: » I will agree with you to a point but we're playing an extremely dangerous game which will end badly for us all. Our economic systems are fundamentally flawed, they truly are, many of our politicians know this but are refusing to accept it, we 're in big trouble
Wheeliebin30 wrote: » Sorry 40 euro a month or whatever small amount you are supposed to pay and if you don't pay you won't get evicted ever.
Oodoov wrote: » Don't think anyone is paying as little as that. As far as im aware rent is linked to ones income and there are no free houses on offer.
Mooooo wrote: » All well and good saying they are flawed, what is the alternative/ solution.?
Wheeliebin30 wrote: » Well why are you saying these fools keep voting them in and you reap what you sow? Surely you don't vote for a party you're not happy with so who is reaping what they sow?
Oodoov wrote: » FF/FG fail to meet the very obvious demand for social and affordable housing for the state. This is turn drives house and apartment prices up throughout the state. The same fools who ring in Joe Duffy complaining about rent prices, house prices etc.. are the ones who voted in that very same government for the last upteen years. Reap what you sow. Many can't make the connection but that's understandable.
mahoganygas wrote: » Bono incoming in 3...2....
Wheeliebin30 wrote: » What if you're getting rent allowance and you are claiming social welfare? You are getting a free house simple as.
Graham wrote: » ck_fluffy_32 wrote: » Apparently so. In that case, I volunteer the SIPTU building.
ck_fluffy_32 wrote: » Apparently so.
Wheeliebin30 wrote: » How do you know these people complaining voted for ff and fg?
Oodoov wrote: » A lot will have it's common sense if you do the math as a percentage of the electorate. Turkey's voting for Xmas. You hear it all the time. Health service moan moan moan, housing moan moan moan etc.. and all the time a percentage of them will have voted for FG/FF political organisations who have us in a situation paying a unsustainable banking debt (not to mention the interest) money which could be going towards fixing that health service or housing crisis. Tbh Paul Murphy, SF or any of the others arent the answer either. I think the country is in complete denial and we need a Trump type situation to shake it up. Micheal O' Leary or some such character maybe?? The unions also are a huge part of the problem (look at the laughable way they made FG turn over on the Garda deal), the nurses will be next, then the teachers and on and on it goes. We are a foolish electorate easily lead and fed BS by our bought and paid for media organisations and government PR spin doctors.
Wanderer78 wrote: » oh dear god no!!!!! really no! be aware, trump is a salesman, i.e. a con man! we are looking at the failure of free market economic theory in which people like michael o'leary are consequences of. i have respect for people like o'leary though, we can learn a lot from them, i.e. their approaches to running efficient systems etc, but we need to ditch their attitude towards customer care, i.e. customer care is seen as a 'cost' in the free market system. public systems and services need to be designed so the 'customer' is the priority, not the profit margins.
Wheeliebin30 wrote: » The boss of Peter mcferry is on 96,000 a year! It's starting to make sense now why these charities are doing nothing to ease the situation.
Deleted User wrote: » Whoever is doing it its a brilliant initiative and high time. The homeless situation in this country is utterly scandalous. I attend a postgrad in Waterford 2 days a week and there is homeless people sleeping rough in seemingly every second doorway. It simply cant continue that property prices are ballooning out of control on one hand and on the other people are at risk of freezing to death on our streets.
Oodoov wrote: » Hate to break it to you but the current "customer first" model is broken. The reasons are high wages in the sector and inefficiencies. Insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". Albert Einstein.
Wanderer78 wrote: » im not advocating for the same, quite the opposite in fact, something new and different
Graham wrote: » Apparently it goes something like this: "the answer is a return to systems based on classical economics, now what's the question"
Graham wrote: » let me guess
