Take to The Streets?

JeanLucPicard · 27-11-2011 10:59PM #1

With all the depressing headlines regarding our up and coming cutbacks and budget I'm just curious....

1. Are we a nation of just growling about it and sitting on our arses?

2. Or is there a point when we would collectively take to the streets in our masses in protest?

galwayrush · 27-11-2011 11:01PM

Weather's too cold atm, maybe next summer.

Biscuits16 · 27-11-2011 11:02PM

Too much effort

MrStuffins · 27-11-2011 11:02PM

What are you protesting exactly?

These people are cutting back because there's f*ck all money at the moment. What exactly are you hoping will happen if you protest?

Budgets are nothing new my friend!

chocksaway · 27-11-2011 11:02PM

ya can protest all ya want but it wont solve anything! think the government knows that we aint happy but cuts have to be made!

phasers · 27-11-2011 11:03PM

You gwan ahead, I just have to lace my shoes up.

Chuck Stone · 27-11-2011 11:04PM

Global mortgage strike would bring the whole system down.

El Weirdo · 27-11-2011 11:04PM

Meh.

Pacing Mule · 27-11-2011 11:06PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Global mortgage strike would bring the whole system down.

Which would lead to complete chaos, anarchy and the sort of scenes seen in mad max. No thanks !

Ally Dick · 27-11-2011 11:09PM

Cuts need to be made but there needs to be fair play around who gets cut. The public service are getting off scott free again with the government's cowardly Croke Park deal. The banksters have gotten off as well. People wouldn't mind cuts if they felt that the politicians, public sector and banksters have taken the hit as well. The old bullsh!t in this country where certain people are protected from the pain, needs to be addressed

John Doe1 · 27-11-2011 11:10PM

Ah be quiet shay givara:p

gbee · 27-11-2011 11:10PM

Personally, I'm afraid to leave the house as I'm over three months in arrears and I'd be afraid the council would change the locks and lock me out.

amacca · 27-11-2011 11:11PM

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Which would lead to complete chaos, anarchy and the sort of scenes seen in mad max. No thanks !

I have a months supply of canned food...a lack of regard for personal safety, a penchant for strong bloody violence and I'm not afraid to rough it

Yes please!

Chuck Stone · 27-11-2011 11:14PM

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Which would lead to complete chaos, anarchy and the sort of scenes seen in mad max. No thanks !

Ah now.

It would lead to flowers in our hair and chocolates and ponies and romance.

SeaFields · 27-11-2011 11:16PM

JeanLucPicard wrote: »

1. Are we a nation of just growling about it and sitting on our arses?

yes

JeanLucPicard wrote: »

2. Or is there a point when we would collectively take to the streets in our masses in protest?

no

Ally Dick · 27-11-2011 11:19PM

Irish people are different. They fume and give out about their lot, go to bed at night, then wake up refreshed and forgetting what they were annoyed about. That's why we take so much. It's a unique mentality

amacca · 27-11-2011 11:24PM

Ally Dick wrote: »

Irish people are different. They fume and give out about their lot, go to bed at night, then wake up refreshed and forgetting what they were annoyed about. That's why we take so much. It's a unique mentality

why do people keep talking about "Irish people" like its possible to understand them?

woodoo · 27-11-2011 11:27PM

Take to the streets...... hell yeah.... but...

Can't do Monday to Friday as i work,
Cant do Saturday as i golf that day,
Can't do Sunday as i have family over.

Do you mind if i just complain on boards instead.

Fromthetrees · 27-11-2011 11:28PM

**** it, if we sit back and take it in the ass for every cut than things will be much worse. The point is 'our' national debt has gotten so big because we bailed out French, British and German banks, 'if' we protested there might be a small chance that some of their debt that we're paying might be canceled off. All the sh1tes that say 'protesting won't change anything' are the exact same people who thought there was 'no point' in not being subjects of the queen, well we're not subjects of the queen, because people stood up and were counted.

tigger123 · 27-11-2011 11:32PM

Or...

3. sit at home and not moan about it.

MrStuffins · 27-11-2011 11:39PM

Fromthetrees wrote: »

**** it, if we sit back and take it in the ass for every cut than things will be much worse. The point is 'our' national debt has gotten so big because we bailed out French, British and German banks, 'if' we protested there might be a small chance that some of their debt that we're paying might be canceled off. All the sh1tes that say 'protesting won't change anything' are the exact same people who thought there was 'no point' in not being subjects of the queen, well we're not subjects of the queen, because people stood up and were counted.

Rabble rabble!!!!

pragmatic1 · 27-11-2011 11:39PM

Give it a few months.

wonderfulname · 28-11-2011 12:02AM

There is no benefit to mass protest, all it will do is give Ireland an even more unstable image internationally, which is bad, suck it up and get on with it, we're still an incredibly privileged nation and with proper management we have the ability to get out of this. Protesting cuts to inflated expenditure is as stupid as moaning about it.

MrStuffins · 28-11-2011 12:11AM

wonderfulname wrote: »

There is no benefit to mass protest.....

"Sir, there's a few people outside protesting"

"Really? Well in that case...... MORE SOCIAL WELFARE FOR ALL!!"

W.Shakes-Beer · 28-11-2011 12:15AM

Will there be sandwiches available at these Streets?

round tower huntsman · 28-11-2011 12:25AM

i dont know where the "fightng irish" thing comes from cos all ive seen over the last few yrs is a nation,bar a brave and principled minority, bending over and taking every inch.

daniel o connells brother,a priest, said bout the irish around the time of the faimine.................god bless the irish,they'll watch their children starve before breaking the law:o:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
we are a nation of walkovers and quislings.
someday we'll rise again.

Zebra3 · 28-11-2011 12:29AM

MrStuffins wrote: »

What are you protesting exactly?

These people are cutting back because there's f*ck all money at the moment. What exactly are you hoping will happen if you protest?

Budgets are nothing new my friend!

There's plenty of money.

It's being given to failed gamblers and the b*stards that destroyed the economy.

A pension of 150k a year for Ahern? 50k a year pension for Sutherland who is worth 80million euro.

Cop the f*ck on people, this country ain't broke. There's plenty for the golden circle.

MrStuffins · 28-11-2011 12:29AM

round tower huntsman wrote: »

i dont know where the "fightng irish" thing comes from cos all ive seen over the last few yrs is a nation,bar a brave and principled minority, bending over and taking every inch.

daniel o connells brother,a priest, said bout the irish around the time of the faimine.................god bless the irish,they'll watch their children starve before breaking the law:o:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
we are a nation of walkovers and quislings.
someday we'll rise again.

You realise that the country is run by Irish people, its Irish people who got us into this mess and it'll be Irish drawing up the budget right?

round tower huntsman · 28-11-2011 12:34AM

the irish to me are the irish working class, they arent to blame for this mess. the people that caused this are traitors to the irish republic,imo.

wonderfulname · 28-11-2011 12:41AM

Zebra3 wrote: »

There's plenty of money.

It's being given to failed gamblers and the b*stards that destroyed the economy.

A pension of 150k a year for Ahern? 50k a year pension for Sutherland who is worth 80million euro.

Cop the f*ck on people, this country ain't broke. There's plenty for the golden circle.

Do you realise how tiny 200k a year is when you put it beside the country's annual budget? It's even more insignificant beside the national debit, the ridiculous levels of wastage in the public sector and social welfare on the other hand makes up a sizeable amount of money when you're talking on this scale.

round tower huntsman · 28-11-2011 12:41AM

Zebra3 wrote: »

There's plenty of money.

It's being given to failed gamblers and the b*stards that destroyed the economy.

A pension of 150k a year for Ahern? 50k a year pension for Sutherland who is worth 80million euro.

Cop the f*ck on people, this country ain't broke. There's plenty for the golden circle.

the man that over saw this whole mess, pat neary,walked from the central bank with a lump sum and yearly pension worth hundreds of thousands. harney and traitors like ahern and biffo earning a fortune on pensions, its sickening tbh:mad:

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