We don't want a thread on every little thing you think about the economy - superlock

maninasia wrote: »

No most of this stuff was obvious if you actually checked the details. The transfer the assets to your spouse trick was already going on even before NAMA was setup, the point is that they knew about it but didn't even have a counter-strategy.
All this information was in plain sight.

All this stuff was fairly obvious to a good section of the population. Unfortunately it wasnt popular to rock the boat and without public opinion on your side, theres not much you can do.

Mister men wrote: »

Everyone looks the other way. It's the way of the Irish.

No it's not.

FFS, I hate when people say crap like that. There is nothing in us that makes us act a certain way. You can argue that we have been conditioned by our society but that is not the case. English people say it about English people, Italians about Italians. Americans about Americans.

Just because something happens in this country doesn't mean it is down to a character trait of "the Irish".

*breathes again*:eek:

EoghanConway wrote: »

And for those who have enough information at the right time to see it coming, cognitive dissonance, analysis paralysis and apathy.

Being ignored by the majority was more common.

I think at this time of the year we ought to give just one small belated thought to all those people out there who resemble in so many ways the character of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge. Oh we know these individuals too well. The people who cared not one ounce about the misfortunes of others from whom they benefited. The people who cared a lot more about their own private gain and profit rather than the welfare of the ordinary man.

Yes, I am indeed lamenting about the lonely bankers, builders and Fianna Fáil politicians. Yes, lonely is indeed the word to describes these creatures. At this festive season, they must feel so abandoned and friendless in their desolate mansions with very little in what might be considered true campaigns to frequent and console with.

Let us pray that between now and Christmas Morning that they might expunge their greedy, insatiable and self-centered ways in recognition of the fervent spirit of Christmas. Let us hope they they might give back what they stole from society and take example from Scrooge and how he saw the error in his ways. Surely they can't be total misanthropes.

It may seem like a perfectly nonsensical fairytale but is there not even the mildest of chances that they might do so? Perhaps a miracle or a visit by three mystical ghosts to their bedchambers to help them realise their failings? It would be so befitting for this time of year that for once we could see the reversal of this land's demise and its redemption with the human spirit of kindness from quite unexpected sources.