Brian Lenihan orders - find 3 billion in four weeks!

aDeener · 13-05-2010 01:02AM

dlofnep wrote: »

Nationwide can **** off for itself.

hey no need for that, michael ryan is a fantastic presenter and some of the stories they uncover are really interesting

13-05-2010 10:15AM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Is it ?

I'll certainly go find a cost of living survey to check, but since you're so confident I presume that you have one to hand - do share !

And I can't help but wonder what bank officials and politicians are on over there, too......

Just found one pointer for starters:

http://www.expatforum.com/articles/cost-of-living/cost-of-living-in-greece.html

If everything else is a factor of that magnitude, you could well be way off the mark, Rojo

I'm sorry, but how are any of those figures 5 times less than they are here?? 60 euros a month on food per person? 500 euros a month rent? A small car that uses very little fuel?

Your head is in the clouds.

CreepingDeath · 13-05-2010 11:00AM

If only Germany won World War 2... they would've had Europe running much more efficiently with less bureaucracy.

The_Minister · 13-05-2010 11:19AM

Biggins, it's the same €3bn in cuts that was announced months ago, we knew this was coming for ages - the last budget was the minimum that we could get away with at the time.

DonJose · 13-05-2010 11:26AM

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

We have some of the highest wages in the world, some of the highest unemployment benefits, and one of the highest paid PS's in the world. Someone on the dole here 'earns' almost as much as a teacher in Greece. Probably a lot more when you factor in other benefits.

And the problem is that some people can't get their heads around this fact.

If I could thank you twice I would. Brian, if you are reading this heres a tip to save a couple of hundred million euro. Stop paying rent allowance to private landlords and move all those tenants into the empty houses and apartments that the Government now own thru NAMA.

NewDirection · 13-05-2010 11:29AM

Does anyone else here see this as a positive thing?

While on the one hand we have people justifiably giving out about our absent Taoiseach, our Minister for Finance is kicking ass and taking names.

If anyone looks at the government finances, its clear they don't add up. Well done Brian on forcing these flabby government offices to cut expenditure.

Darksaga87 · 13-05-2010 11:36AM

Whatever happend to houses on the moon? We need a clean slate since we fúked this place up.

The_Minister · 13-05-2010 11:37AM

DonJose wrote: »

If I could thank you twice I would. Brian, if you are reading this heres a tip to save a couple of hundred million euro. Stop paying rent allowance to private landlords and move all those tenants into the empty houses and apartments that the Government now own thru NAMA.

.....What houses? So far as I'm aware, we don't own any buildings through NAMA yet, and won't for a while.

Sean Quagmire · 13-05-2010 11:38AM

^^ Jaysus yea, remember people were buying land on the moon lol. talk about pissing money away in the boom times haha. People are idiots

cleremy jarkson · 15-05-2010 12:21AM

Can't we just pretend that nothings wrong and go back to selling houses to each other?

Mr. Incognito · 15-05-2010 12:28AM

Some Patriot should Burn Anglo head office down.

22 Billion right there

Mark200 · 15-05-2010 12:30AM

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Some Patriot should Burn Anglo head office down.

22 Billion right there

Go ahead. I'll be...... right behind you.

Brian Lenihan orders - find 3 billion in four weeks!

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