Sleepy wrote: » OP, cop yourself on. Arguably the most intelligent taoiseach the country has ever had and you think the bunch of corrupt idiots currently in power couldn't possibly benefit from his advice occasionaly?
Sleepy wrote: » Leave the blind party allegiance behind Fitzgerald. It just makes you look like a simpleton.
K-9 wrote: » ............Ask the 1,000s a week who emigrated in 85/86?
junkyard wrote: » FFS....I'M NOT A FF SUPPORTER........DOES ANYONE EVEN LOOK PROPERLY AT MY SIG!!!!:rolleyes:
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.
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.........
Sleepy wrote: » Apologies Junkyard, I disregard most sigs tbh, all I saw in yours was the car and the Ográ logo... Nodin, Fitzgerald was forgiven the part of the debt he couldn't pay after disposing of his assets as the Bank didn't want the bad publicity of forcing a former Taoiseach into bankruptcy. Nothing like Haughey's acceptance of bribes written off debts while he was still in possession of a private island. I think you'd find most banks would behave in a similar fashion towards Joe Public tbh Nodin. One of the many jobs I had as a student was indexing a warehouse full of a major banks bad debts files for the western region. There were hundreds of thousands of cases over the previous ten years or so and as far as I'm aware, none of these customers were ever forced into bankruptcy. While I'm obviously not at liberty to disclose any of the names on the thousands of files I sorted through, many of them were quite recognisable as people who'd gone on to run very successful businesses in the area. There's absolutely nothing to be gained in bankrupting someone if they've already done everything in their power to make good on a debt and huge adverse publicity through word-of-mouth... Never mind the fact that if the person who's debt you're forgiving has a change of fortune down the line, their custom may be very valuable to the bank and you'll find very few customers with the same degree of loyalty towards a bank as one who's given them a second chance.
themont85 wrote: » To be fair to GF he was in a coalition with Labour and had a hefty opposition led by Charles Haughy who agreed to **** all consensus and was all about getting himself back as Taoiseach(like Kenny now being a beligerant prick and putting politics over the country). As soon as he was FG agreed to the Tallaght Strategy.
MoominPapa wrote: » You are a chick, right?
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.:(
KerranJast wrote: » The current Government have a majority and at this stage have no support to lose. They can implement whatever policy they want. They and we don't need a National Government or Tallaght Strategy II.
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