What is your solution?

galwayrush wrote: »

This is After Hours, you expect serious answers?:rolleyes:

I'm new, it just seems to be the place where people vent the opinions I disagree with. These are the people I wanted to debate with to try to understand the reasonings behind those opinions. There would be no point in looking for a "serious" forum, as those people would not be there!

starbelgrade wrote: »

I rode yore ma last night.

She was crap in bed - had a fanny as loose as a V-neck jumper.

Well done. I guess that makes us even as I rode yours too. I can't comment about her gee though as she only likes it up the arse. She was great though. I guess it makes a difference to the quality of the service when you take pride in your work!

MadYaker wrote: »

I always have a good laugh at the type of people you outlined at the start of your post OP. Back in the good old days they were all kissing berties arse while he lined his pockets with their taxes because times were good and the government were reducing taxes when they should have been increasing them. But now the truth has been revealed and they all hate the previous gov with a fiery passion that burns deep in their souls!

Now we have a government that are far from perfect and have been left with one hell of mess to clean up but at least they are honest and are trying to get this country back on track and what do they get? Dogs abuse at every turn from the same people who voted them in and who voted for Fianna Fail in 2007. So many people seem to live a dream world where austerity can be avoided and the current government are increasing taxes and cutting services purely because they enjoy watching us suffer. Rant over.

Thanks for your response. It's a lot more succint than my original post :-). It's nice to know that there are some people out there who can take a step back and see the bigger picture!

AboutTwoFiddy wrote: »

Right. lol

I'd reckon that most of them are better educated than the majoirty of people here. And while they may have little "real-world" experience such as running a company or even working as a manager for a large organisation, I'd reckon that they are more capable than the average person on the street.

Your attitude is the typical "Those people are idiots. They have stopped me from fulfilling my potential" sh1te.

The question remains, why are you voting for idiots? Or why are you not putting yourself forward for election. It should be easy for you to get elected if your competition is incompetant.
Is the money they get paid too little? Are you earning more than your local TD in salary in allowances?

No? ... I didn't think so!

Peetrik wrote: »

Despite you addressing this exact stance... Personally, I'd tell Merkel and the Troika to fcuk off, wouldn't need the household charge if we stopped paying so thats gone too.
I'd also tell Shell to fcuk off in an effort to "think more than one step into the future" I feel Ireland could make better use of our recources than to give them away for free.
RTE is a little different, I'd tell RTE to go and sh*te, they can sink or swim on their own like every other media provider.

I'm sure it wouldn't help with our financial situation but I feel it would do a lot to improve general moral

Well at least you give the proviso that you wouldn't be doing it for financial reasons but for morale reasons. ( I presume you meant morale and not moral) .

galwayrush wrote: »

Human nature, greed is the problem.

And it always will be. People only want equality when it means they get more. They don't want it when it means they will get less.

Billions of people live on the starvation line but people in Ireland give out about having a large negative number between their house and their mortgage. It's only a f$c&ing number on a computer system or a piece of paper.They will attack and spit on politicians etc. A sense of perspective is no harm!

starbelgrade wrote: »

Your whole viewpoint is a little simplistic to say the least.

More simplistic than the people who blanketly criticise politicians who have to make decisions with consequences :rolleyes:

Tell me a short list of politicians, currently in power, that you think are competant!

I guess I have to keep my viewpoints simplistic so that people here can understand them....I had more than one complaint about the length of my opening post!

My post was a response to someone who just copied and quoted a previous post of mine, changed a few phrases to bold, and then said "lol" or something nonsensical to that effect!

mikom wrote: »

Lol.
Now you ****in' said it
Roll credits

Bear in mind the age profiles of these people too. There aren't that many people above their 40s with degrees!

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Academic qualifications.

Enda Kenny : None stated, but as far as I know he was a teacher, so at least must have had some sort of degree. Plus he has a long experience in politics. wikipedia says "Kenny subsequently attended St Patrick's College of Education in Dublin and University College Galway."

Eamon Gilmore Degree in Psychology from University College Galway now NUI Galway.

Michael Noonan (From wikipedia) "He was educated at the local national school and St. Patrick's secondary school in Glin before studying primary school teaching at St' Patrick's College of Education in Drumcondra. He subsequently completed a BA and H.Dip. in English and Economics at University College Dublin"

Ruairí Quinn : (from wikipedia). "This led him to study architecture at University College Dublin (UCD) in 1964 and later at the School of Ekistics in Athens."

Brendan Howlin : (from wikipedia) "He later attended St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin and qualified as a primary school teacher"

Richard Bruton : (wikipedia) "He was educated at Belvedere College, Clongowes Wood College, University College Dublin and Nuffield College, Oxford.[3] At Oxford he graduated with a MPhil in Economics,[3] his thesis being on the subject of Irish public debt"

Joan Burton: (wikipedia) "She was educated at St Gabriel's NS, Cowper St and St Joseph Sisters of Charity Secondary School, Stanhope Street and University College Dublin (UCD) where she graduated with a degree in Commerce. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. She has worked as a lecturer in Accountancy in the Dublin Institute of Technology and the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania"

Jimmy Deenihan : He was educated at St. Michael's College, Listowel and later at the Thomond College of Education, Limerick in Limerick. He also spent time in college in England.

Pat Rabbitte: (wikipedia) "He returned shortly afterwards to attend University College Galway where he studied English"


Phil Hogan: He was educated locally in St. Joseph's College; Freshford, St. Kieran's College in Kilkenny and University College Cork where he qualified with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Higher Diploma in Education

Alan Shatter: He was educated at The High School, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin

Simon Coveney: Coveney subsequently attended University College Cork and Gurteen Agricultural College, before completing a BSc in Agriculture and Land Management from Royal Agricultural College, Gloucestershire

Frances Fitzgerald: she was educated at Dominican College Sion Hill school, Blackrock, University College Dublin and London School of Economics

James Reilly. Qualifies medical doctor. Previously head of the IMO

Leo Varadker: He was educated at King's Hospital School, Palmerstown and Trinity College, Dublin where he qualified as a medical doctor


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Ronin247 wrote: »

AH answer.
I would make people pay every they f*cked Yore's ma and we would be out of debt in no time!!

My real answer.

Stop paying bank debts but do pay our national debt.
Actually do something about the hse numbers instead of playing musical chairs with the figures. We need teachers,nurses etc but we do not need all the pen pushing paper generators.
Give me a car battery,jump leads and Bertie for 2 hours and I would know who was payed what to sell our oil/gas/mineral rights and then with a signed confession I would nationalise the corrib fields and all the other sh*t our politicians sold for a pittance of cash in a brown envelope.
Reduce number of politicians.

Could go on but......meh

Nationalising the Corrib field won't do too much to help us. It's a distraction. Yes we should make sure that no corruption ever happens again, but it's not as if we would be rich if Shell didn't have that licence. It's a different topic to the issue of current politicians.....unless of course some of them were involved in shady deals relating to it or similar

Temptamperu wrote: »

My solution, put them on minimum wage and see how fast sht will change.

Yeah, a great idea :rolleyes: . And we can still all threaten them and spit at them.

It would just go the way of all other minimum wage jobs..... the lazy Irish would go on the dole (where thay are better off) and the foreigners would have to do the jobs! Taoiseach Pavlo Kratesitlikis anyone?