We're F**ked Are'nt We?

Volvoboy · 04-02-2009 01:17AM #1

Just looked across to Breakingnews.ie seen a array of bad news.

Waterford crystal employee's in fisticuffs, public spending down, talks of bus drivers going on strike, student fee's being introduced.

I could go on, and point the fingers but a finger pointing session wont get us out of this mess.

Dont know what will, but the worst is yet to come the amount of people living in the red is truely scary, whats going to happen when the debs get called in?

Sorry to sound a bit glum bit this is getting to me now (know it shouldnt as i'm not in a bad situation)

banshee_bones · 04-02-2009 01:19AM

in a word

YES

SV · 04-02-2009 01:19AM

tis a bad time for a lot of people and I consider myself very very very lucky to be in the position I am..

hopefully this doesn't last too long but..I'd say it will.

Abi · 04-02-2009 01:20AM

Im a little blue train.

choo choo!

anonymous_joe · 04-02-2009 01:22AM

We're not fúcked, but we're going to suffer for a few years. So's everyone though.

yoshytoshy · 04-02-2009 01:24AM

it will probably last a couple of years ,I've been told by loads of people that this always happens every twenty years or so.

It's not the end of the world:)

jester77 · 04-02-2009 01:24AM

It ain't looking good. If the government had that much trouble trying to cut €2 billion, what's it going to be like next year when they have to cut €4 billion with higher unemployment and less tax coming in.

muppetkiller · 04-02-2009 01:25AM

We need a revolution !!! I vote me for Supreme overlord ...Spungers will be executed. Viva La Muppetkiller

Gone West · 04-02-2009 01:25AM

Only the fools who took out big mortgages on houses, when realistically anybody with a half of a brain (or even any kid who reads McWilliams since 2002/3) would know that they will be in negative equity.
The people who lose their jobs, its very sad, but its better to have nothing than to owe a bank 400k and have no job.
Those are the ones who are really ****ed

Senna · 04-02-2009 01:25AM

If you can keep your job, then you'll be grand. You might have to take a pay cut, but a jobs a job.
Problem is plenty of people so far think there job is safe, but really no one in the private sector is safe, unemployment of 20% might not be unrealistic.

Paddy Samurai · 04-02-2009 01:30AM

YES we are all truly fcuked.The global financial services have collectively piled all their ****,debts,corrupt deals etc together and produced a gigantic dildo of debt which they have used to fcuk all our asses.Then when they were finished ,they sent us the bill for manufacturing the giant dildo.

muppetkiller · 04-02-2009 01:30AM

Well my company announced 20% redundancy today ..which is balls because now we have to wait the legal 30 days to find out who's getting the chop..nonsense eh..
But yes I worry for friends of mine who bought during the boom...scary times ahead.

Sam Vimes · 04-02-2009 01:34AM

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

YES we are all truly fcuked.The global financial services have collectively piled all their ****,debts,corrupt deals etc together and produced a gigantic dildo of debt which they have used to fcuk all our asses.Then when they were finished ,they sent us the bill for manufacturing the giant dildo.

I've never seen it so eloquently put

CreepingDeath · 04-02-2009 01:34AM

In medical terms we're CTD..... circling the drain.

CreepingDeath · 04-02-2009 01:37AM

Volvoboy wrote: »

.. talks of bus drivers going on strike..

If the fecken bus drivers go on strike then how are the rest of us meant to get to work ? We'd need a lot more taxi drivers on the roads to get us all into work

Jonathan · 04-02-2009 01:40AM

At least the seriousness of the situation we are in is starting to hit home with the ordinary joe soap.

yoshytoshy · 04-02-2009 01:41AM

really feel sorry for them bus drivers ,a lot of them were already struggling to make ends meet.

themadchef · 04-02-2009 01:43AM

muppetkiller wrote: »

We need a revolution !!! I vote me for Supreme overlord ...Spungers will be executed. Viva La Muppetkiller

LOL

Can ya take out the whole of the Dail while you're at it, oh since it's muppets you're after... Westlife and Boyzone too...... Pretty please.

CreepingDeath · 04-02-2009 01:46AM

yoshytoshy wrote: »

really feel sorry for them bus drivers ,a lot of them were already struggling to make ends meet.

Then give them a pension opt-out option, and they have to fund their own pension like the rest of us.

Fookers can't hold the country to ransom like that, causing huge disruption and expense making the situation even worse.

They have to let go a few hundred of them anyways, so let the loud mouth ones who strike go first.

Fighting Irish · 04-02-2009 01:46AM

lol @ all the people who bought 300K houses in the past few years

brianthebard · 04-02-2009 01:46AM

The revolution is at hand! A spectre haunts Europe!

Volvoboy · 04-02-2009 01:48AM

Fighting Irish wrote: »

lol @ all the people who bought 300K houses in the past few years

Get outa that, wouldnt wish financial hardship on anyone.

here.from.day.1 · 04-02-2009 01:52AM

Bring back the cyclops, he'd know what to do.

Fizman · 04-02-2009 01:52AM

Abigayle wrote: »

Im a little blue train.

choo choo!

Don't kid yourself, your fcuked too. Train driver numbers are down, track maintenance at an all time low.

:pac:

Fighting Irish · 04-02-2009 01:55AM

Volvoboy wrote: »

Get outa that, wouldnt wish financial hardship on anyone.

Smart people will survive, and that's how it should be

ambman · 04-02-2009 01:55AM

ITS TIME FOR A STREET PARTY.

I think its time for this country to take to to the streets in protest. That DICKHEAD cowan in earning more money that any other world leader yet we dont hear of him taking a pay cut or any of the rest of his cronnies.

They say that people shopping up the north is killing us but yet it is the same product you buy up the north as down here yet there maybe as much as 400% price difference in the same product.

And now they are hitting the wrong people in their pockets when it should be the likes of cowan etc that should be taking the hit. Things were great and people paid what ever the price was when things were good and now things have gone wrong and people are searching for the best deal they can find yet consumers wont lower their prices.

At the rate things are going we wont even get buuter vouchers never mind the labour:mad:

yoshytoshy · 04-02-2009 01:57AM

CreepingDeath wrote: »

They have to let go a few hundred of them anyways, so let the loud mouth ones who strike go first.

I completely agree with you on that ,the majority of the older drivers have no mortgages I'd say. And they get paid more ,it's ridiculous. They're probably out sick half the time aswell.

yoshytoshy · 04-02-2009 01:59AM

ambman wrote: »

That DICKHEAD cowan in earning more money that any other world leader yet we dont hear of him taking a pay cut or any of the rest of his cronnies.

Regardless of pay ,I wouldn't wish his job on anyone at the moment. Don't like the bloke much at all now ,but jayzuz he has it tough at the moment.

Fighting Irish · 04-02-2009 02:00AM

OK the government couldn't run water(not many governments can) and the banks are money hungry as fook(what business isn't) but most of Ireland over the past ten years spent their money like it had an expiry date and saved nothing and now when **** goes belly up most people have no safety net

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 04-02-2009 02:03AM

Fighting Irish wrote: »

OK the government couldn't run water(not many governments can) and the banks are money hungry as fook(what business isn't) but most of Ireland over the past ten years spent their money like it had an expiry date and saved nothing and now when **** goes belly up most people have no safety net

Kind of like a financial version of Darwin's Law...

DanGerMus · 04-02-2009 02:05AM

Well i have zero debt of any kind and a secure although not spectularily paid job but it's okay and i just got a new contract. Recessions are negative for 20-30% but for the rest stuff just gets cheaper.
Unless of course we have one of those super recessions and our government starts underwriting loadsa debt while failing to make real and effective decissions to save money like cutting massively overpaid underworked and poorly performing people out of the countries public service. I'd rather they be on the dole doin nothing than getin 100k for same. Sure that'll never happen.

We're F**ked Are'nt We?

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