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malistheman wrote: »Absolute asshole of a fly buzzing around my room while I try to study. Seriously inconsiderate
When he lands
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Are they trying to run us out of the country?
No job = no money. No education = no job. I am sick of living in this depressing hellhole! College fees rising, impossible to get a job, grants being cut, yet the people who caused this mess still get a fantastic lifestyle. I hate politicians, I hate this country and I am dreading staying here for at least another year.
Fix the god damn country and put the money where it needs to be.
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IHeartChemistry wrote: »Are they trying to run us out of the country? No job = no money. No education = no job. I am sick of living in this depressing hellhole! College fees rising, impossible to get a job, grants being cut, yet the people who caused this mess still get a fantastic lifestyle. I hate politicians, I hate this country and I am dreading staying here for at least another year.
Fix the god damn country and put the money where it needs to be.
/rant
Not as easy as just "fixing the country" overnight. Will take a long time to get out of the mess FF put us in 0 -
malistheman wrote: »Not as easy as just "fixing the country" overnight. Will take a long time to get out of the mess FF put us in
And FG and LAB are determined to make it worse.
Budget today was a ****ing joke. Little/no stimulus. No talk of creating jobs. Just cut income and increase taxes.
Cutting child benefit across the board? A bloody 2-year old could tell you that that's a stupid idea. Just means test the bloody thing.
Over 70's earning >1500euro a week have their medical cards taken, but are still given GP visit cards. **** 'em. If you're earning >1500 a week you can bloody well afford to pay to visit your GP.
Cutting ~300,000 Home Help hours? That's just going to force people into nursing homes needlessly, causing further burden on their families and the state.
No cuts to minister's salaries? They earn ~40k more than their French counterparts FFS! TD's get an extra 9k for chairing a committee! Junior Ministers get something like an extra 15k!
Ministers breaking their own caps on earnings to pay their special advisers? Joan Burton, our social protection minister pays her speicla adviser in the region of 100k!
Adding taxes to coal, fags, alcohol, maternity benefit...
And we're supposed to swallow that this budget is fair? My bollox.
It's fine to trot out the old "Ah shur, FF put us here!" line, but FG/LAB have had what? 18 months in government? And has there been any improvement? Not really. We're still in a hole with no sign of ever getting out of it.
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wnolan1992 wrote: »And FG and LAB are determined to make it worse.
Budget today was a ****ing joke. Little/no stimulus. No talk of creating jobs. Just cut income and increase taxes.
Cutting child benefit across the board? A bloody 2-year could tell you that that's a stupid idea. Just means test the bloody thing.
Over 70's earning >1500euro a week have their medical cards taken, but are still given GP visit cards. **** 'em. If you're earning >1500 a week you can bloody well afford to pay to visit you GP.
Cutting ~300,000 Home Help hours? That's just going to force people into nursing homes needlessly, causing further burden on their families and the state.
No cuts to minister's salaries? They earn ~40k more than their French counterparts FFS! TD's get an extra 9k for chairing a committee! Junior Ministers get something like an extra 15k!
Ministers breaking their own caps on earnings to pay their special advisers? Joan Burton, our social protection minister pays her speicla adviser in the region of 100k!
Adding taxes to coal, fags, alcohol, maternity benefit...
And we're supposed to swallow that this budget is fair? My bollox.
It's fine to trot out the old "Ah shur, FF put us here!" line, but FG/LAB have had what? 18 months in government? And has there been any improvement? Not really. We're still in a hole with no sign of ever getting out of it.
/rant. Sorry.
EDIT I'm not a member of a political party, just bored on study week and fancied playing devils advocate :P
The country is reducing our deficit steadily.That's an enormous improvement, we've made it back to the bond markets. The decisions are being made by the Troika not the coalition. The budget today wasn't good to anyone. That's the fairest part of it tbh.
Not trying to defend some of the huge salaries but ministers did already take a pay cut when they took power. I'd agree the wage is still too high though.
Stimulus costs money, something we don't have much of at the moment. Things could be so much worse though. Our university fees are only a fraction of other countries.
I don't know what people expect really. Personally I'd love a non austerity budget but for the next couple of years that's all we have.0 -
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flyswatter wrote: »Sinn Féin as a one party government? Not a chance. Possibly the smaller party in a coalition. Though, it's hard for me to picture them in government yet for a while.
They don't stand a chance until GA is gone tbh. Still too much ill feeling out there.
When people like Pearse Doherty and Mary Lou are the leaders they'll stand a real chance. But not until then IMO.Pigwidgeon wrote: »I think I'll just move to Iceland. They did it right.
If I ever graduate and grow a set of testicles I'm buggering off to Finland or Canada. Never coming back to this pit.
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I'm still not exactly sure that they're a viable alternative though, but maybe that's just me and my preferences.wnolan1992 wrote: »They don't stand a chance until GA is gone tbh. Still too much ill feeling out there.
When people like Pearse Doherty and Mary Lou are the leaders they'll stand a real chance. But not until then IMO.wnolan1992 wrote: »If I ever graduate and grow a set of testicles I'm buggering off to Finland or Canada. Never coming back to this pit.
Which is something I never thought I'd say.
I'm the exact same. Seriously contemplating moving to Canada next year once the accountancy exams are done. I still love this country but there are good opportunities elsewhere, better than there are here.
They say our exports are well up at the moment, I wonder does that include people? 0 -
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wnolan1992 wrote: »And FG and LAB are determined to make it worse.
Budget today was a ****ing joke. Little/no stimulus. No talk of creating jobs. Just cut income and increase taxes.
Cutting child benefit across the board? A bloody 2-year old could tell you that that's a stupid idea. Just means test the bloody thing.
Over 70's earning >1500euro a week have their medical cards taken, but are still given GP visit cards. **** 'em. If you're earning >1500 a week you can bloody well afford to pay to visit your GP.
Cutting ~300,000 Home Help hours? That's just going to force people into nursing homes needlessly, causing further burden on their families and the state.
No cuts to minister's salaries? They earn ~40k more than their French counterparts FFS! TD's get an extra 9k for chairing a committee! Junior Ministers get something like an extra 15k!
Ministers breaking their own caps on earnings to pay their special advisers? Joan Burton, our social protection minister pays her speicla adviser in the region of 100k!
Adding taxes to coal, fags, alcohol, maternity benefit...
And we're supposed to swallow that this budget is fair? My bollox.
It's fine to trot out the old "Ah shur, FF put us here!" line, but FG/LAB have had what? 18 months in government? And has there been any improvement? Not really. We're still in a hole with no sign of ever getting out of it.
/rant. Sorry.
When you think about it, how can the likes of Eamon Gilmore understand the stress and hardship people are under when the combined salary of him and his wife is 300,000 a year? And I know people use the argument that 'How FG and Labour inherited this and it wasn't their fault' - I'm sorry were they not in opposition when FF where spending ridiculous amounts of money? Could they not have said something?
I can't see how budgets like this are going to make the economy grow. What really annoyed me though was the fees going up. It'll be the situation of only those who can afford it will go to college! How is that going to help the economy? And weren't loads of economists saying that this kind of approach would never work? God now I'm ranting
Sorry!!
Arrgh: Got no sleep last night! Blah! Prime condition for ranting though!:pac: 0 -
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Rain, shoo, go away! God why can't I just knuckle down and focus? 'If I get x done then I've loads of time to do whatever else I want' But I just can't do it (Bad excuse I know) but I'm convinced I have something besides laziness:o. I end up doing nothing all day and then I've no time to relax! Ugh, I hate myself sometimes. 0
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