Where does all the money come from

Obviously the solution to both nations troubles is for to facilitate Irish migration to Japan.

Everyone will get cancer, assuming they live long enough.

yes and no, its ultimately the fact we have allowed major sectors, in particular the fire sectors(finance, insurance and real estate), to dictate and dominate our economies, whereby their main objectives have been, and still are, to maximize utility, i.e. maximize their profits, why our property markets are wrecked. in turn we have also been continually electing governments whos main aims have been to maintain this status quo.

the only way out of this is to make our governments take back some element of control of this process, the current housing proposal by the looks of it, is a step in the right direction, as a large proportion of the finances required, will be coming from public finances, and not from the preferred fire sector approach of credit from private sector financial institutions, i.e. banks, but i still expect the fire sectors to get heavily involved, for their pounds of flesh, and they probably will.