Garret Fitzgerld.......WHF!!!!!

junkyard · 26-02-2009 11:37PM #1

I just watched the nine o'clock and there I saw Garret Fitzgerld advising on how to sort out the mess we're in at the moment.........now correct me if I'm wrong here, but this man couldn't look after his own finances a few years ago and had the banks write off his own bad debts along with Haughey and a few others, and now he's advising the government on how to sort things out?? I don't know wheather to laugh or cry at the brass neck of him I really don't. Watching the running of this country is like watching a car crash in slow motion, you know it's going to be bad but you'd feel like running in and pulling these muppets out before there is absolutely no hope.:(

Quazzie · 26-02-2009 11:40PM

WHF!!!!

FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tallus · 26-02-2009 11:42PM

He couldn't be any worse than the muppets in power at the moment.
and btw, it's Fitzgerald, there's an a in there

Eoin · 26-02-2009 11:43PM

WTF does WHF stand for?

junkyard · 26-02-2009 11:43PM

Sorry, I meant WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:o

mike65 · 26-02-2009 11:44PM

MGO! :eek: tis a FIAL!

Its a bit rich but I suspect he puts down the 80s screw ups to coalition with Labour before the beards went. His prognosis is bloody gloomy but sadly not wrong.

junkyard · 26-02-2009 11:45PM

tallus wrote: »

He couldn't be any worse than the muppets in power at the moment.
and btw, it's Fitzgerald, there's an a in there

Does it matter?:)

tallus · 26-02-2009 11:46PM

junkyard wrote: »

Does it matter?:)

well if you're going to piss an moan about someone at least spell their name correctly

dSTAR · 26-02-2009 11:46PM

Surely this is a joke. He needs advice on how to put on a pair of shoes!

mike65 · 26-02-2009 11:47PM

I thought it was socks he usually mixed up?

OPENROAD · 26-02-2009 11:47PM

mike65 wrote: »

His prognosis is bloody gloomy but sadly not wrong.

+1

The thing is the opposition is very short on detail of what they will actually do which has been a let down.

dSTAR · 26-02-2009 11:49PM

mike65 wrote: »

I thought it was socks he usually mixed up?

You might be right. I just remember him being dubbed goody two shoes.

Sleipnir · 26-02-2009 11:51PM

He's gloomy but I think he's right about a lot of things. We need an emergency budget right now, not in 10 months.

He also said that taxes will need to go up, but the government won't do it until after the local elections.
The opposition won't even mention raising taxes because if they do, they won't get in.

Rb · 26-02-2009 11:52PM

When I voted No to the Lisbon Treaty I meant it.

junkyard · 26-02-2009 11:57PM

Well at least you voted no.;)

OPENROAD · 26-02-2009 11:58PM

Sleipnir wrote: »

The opposition won't even mention raising taxes because if they do, they won't get in.

I agree the opposition have been very short on detail of what they would do, their is a great deal of uncertainty as to what the govt will do in the next budget and this uncertainty is not a good thing, what will they raise and this is not necesaary a good thing, just look what has happned with VAT going up, will putting up the likes of cgt necessary bring in more?

K-9 · 26-02-2009 11:59PM

junkyard wrote: »

but this man couldn't look after his own finances a few years ago and had the banks write off his own bad debts along with Haughey and a few others, and now he's advising the government on how to sort things out??

I wouldn't worry that he couldn't sort out his own finances, I'd worry he couldn't sort out the countries. IMF was due to be called in.

Take whatever advice he gives and do the opposite.

tony1kenobi · 27-02-2009 12:03AM

eoin wrote: »

WTF does WHF stand for?

As I understand WHF is the frequency on televisions that Delboy sells so that you can tune in Eastern European stations without having to get a satellite dish.

phantom_lord · 27-02-2009 12:03AM

junkyard wrote: »

I just watched the nine o'clock and there I saw Garret Fitzgerld advising on how to sort out the mess we're in at the moment.........now correct me if I'm wrong here, but this man couldn't look after his own finances a few years ago and had the banks write off his own bad debts along with Haughey and a few others, and now he's advising the government on how to sort things out?? I don't know wheather to laugh or cry at the brass neck of him I really don't. Watching the running of this country is like watching a car crash in slow motion, you know it's going to be bad but you'd feel like running in and pulling these muppets out before there is absolutely no hope.:(

wasn't he an economics lecturer? pretty sure he's one of the most qualified people in the country to give advice.

Sleipnir · 27-02-2009 12:08AM

PHD in economics, lectured in politics and economics.

Obviously OP is better qualified.

junkyard · 27-02-2009 12:08AM

phantom_lord wrote: »

wasn't he an economics lecturer? pretty sure he's one of the most qualified people in the country to give advice.

He might have been, but practice and theory are two very different things.

Sleipnir · 27-02-2009 12:10AM

junkyard wrote: »

He might have been, but practice and theory are two very different things.

Well, he's not practising it now, he's talking about it. He's retired.

Given his education and the fact that he's been Taoiseach twice, he's more qualified to comment on the current state then either you or I do.

dSTAR · 27-02-2009 12:12AM

I know someone who lectures and has degrees coming out of his arse but doesn't know how to boil an egg.

junkyard · 27-02-2009 12:14AM

Sleipnir wrote: »

PHD in economics, lectured in politics and economics.

Obviously OP is better qualified.

Maybe I am, maybe I'm not, but at least i wouldn't be telling people what to do if I wasn't capable of running my own affairs properly.

phantom_lord · 27-02-2009 12:14AM

dSTAR wrote: »

I know someone who lectures and has degrees coming out of his arse but doesn't know how to boil an egg.

i presume he knows about what he lectures though?

K-9 · 27-02-2009 12:15AM

phantom_lord wrote: »

wasn't he an economics lecturer? pretty sure he's one of the most qualified people in the country to give advice.

Heh, I take it you aren't old enough to remember 1982-87?

junkyard wrote: »

He might have been, but practice and theory are two very different things.

Exactly, sums him up.

Sleipnir · 27-02-2009 12:18AM

junkyard wrote: »

Maybe I am, maybe I'm not, but at least i wouldn't be telling people what to do if I wasn't capable of running my own affairs properly.

Meh, neither can Stephen Hawkings; smart man though. Churchill was a drunk who spent a large part of the war sleeping during the day but He did know how to run a war.

It's often the case that intelligent people can't do things that you or I take for granted. My uncle is a mathematical genius but we found him trying to use a coffee machine to make soup.

phantom_lord · 27-02-2009 12:18AM

K-9 wrote: »

Heh, I take it you aren't old enough to remember 1982-87?

before i was born :pac:

i can't claim to know much about that era, but that wasn't really his fault was it? and he's hands were tied by being in coalition with a bunch of those bearded types?

junkyard · 27-02-2009 12:24AM

Well from what I can remember of his governing skills he wasn't exactly great at that either.

dSTAR · 27-02-2009 12:24AM

phantom_lord wrote: »

i presume he knows about what he lectures though?

Quite possibly. But book knowledge and practical experience / pragmatism are two very different things.

ejmaztec · 27-02-2009 12:26AM

Is there a politician in this country, retired or otherwise, who hasn't got a high opinion of himself?

Garret Fitzgerld.......WHF!!!!!

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