FTA69 wrote: » In some places you have unscrupulous landlords and speculators allow buildings to go derelict in the heart of communities which have a terrible negative and knock on effect. If people take that over and use them for communal purposes or community assets then fair play to them. The notion of idle property being allowed to rot in the middle of a housing crisis is obscene and socially unsustainable.
Richard Hillman wrote: » What these people fail the recognise is that so many of these people are homeless because of their own doing. Rent prices are not the reason why Boxcar Fred has been sleeping rough for the last 6 years. Give him a house and he'll still spend his money on booze or drugs and will get evicted for not paying rent. Occupy what you like, it's not going to stop people being trainwrecks
padd b1975 wrote: » Reads like a who's who of insufferable gobsh1tes.
Oodoov wrote: » One's vote is a vital resource in fighting for equality and justice for all our citizens. FF the political organisation that brought the country to ruin will most likely be voted back in at the next election as if like nothing ever happened. Nobody can defend that being anything but utter insanity.
We are going to go in, turn on the electricity, turn on the water, turn on the heating and gather up as many homeless people as need a roof over their head. This has been very well planned and the building is safe.
Wheeliebin30 wrote: » Wait and see where this ends. In a week something bad will happen in it and people will realise its not as simple as just putting these people in a building. Guarantee it will end in a bad story.
Wanderer78 wrote: » apologies thats what i meant, yup id say colm mccarthy is right, zoning is one of our issues here, along with a few other things. our governments are following the free market cookbook and are lost. ive no knowledge of the issues in galway and ennis, maybe he and our politicians need to spend more time in these areas. what do you feel are the issues in these areas?
KyussBeeshop wrote: Fair play to them - the value in what they are doing, is at least as much in raising political awareness, in order to create pressure for a proper solution, as it is in actually housing the homeless.
Graham wrote: » let me guess
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wheeliebin30 wrote: » How do you know these people complaining voted for ff and fg?
Graham wrote: » ck_fluffy_32 wrote: » Apparently so. In that case, I volunteer the SIPTU building.
ck_fluffy_32 wrote: » Apparently so.
Wheeliebin30 wrote: » What if you're getting rent allowance and you are claiming social welfare? You are getting a free house simple as.
mahoganygas wrote: » Bono incoming in 3...2....
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.
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?
Mooooo wrote: » All well and good saying they are flawed, what is the alternative/ solution.?
