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  • #32
    Grimreaper666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭Grimreaper666


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Well this thread was perfect bed time reading.

    Now where did I leave that length of rope?...

    Well seeing there's an increase in the popularity of said rope i'd say a tax hike's in order........


  • #33
    RiverOfLove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭RiverOfLove


    downonthefarm wrote: »
    i work all week and hand up my wages to wifey,once kids are fed and watered and happy couldnt care less about it

    But you should care more. What kind of a future and country will you be leaving to your kids?

    One that they will be treated as maggots if they don't work in politics or banking.

    I don't have kids but if I did I don't think Ireland would be a very great place to be for them.


  • #34
    audman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 817 ✭✭✭audman


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Well this thread was perfect bed time reading.

    Now where did I leave that length of rope?...


    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056952884/1


  • #35
    Grimreaper666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭Grimreaper666


    RiverOfLove wrote: »
    But you should care more. What kind of a future and country will you be leaving to your kids?

    I don't have kids but if I did I don't think Ireland would be a very great place to be for them.

    There won't be a future here considering all the new taxes and the pension funds have been cleaned out with talks of a levy being put on existing pensions too. People really need to wise up and plan a future in another country because Ireland as we knew will only be a distant memory to what's coming down the line. The vision of a future Ireland for what i'm seeing will resemble a very poor eastern block country with taxes heaped upon it's people. Not a bright future that's for sure.


  • #36
    downonthefarm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭downonthefarm


    RiverOfLove wrote: »
    But you should care more. What kind of a future and country will you be leaving to your kids?

    One that they will be treated as maggots if they don't work in politics or banking.

    I don't have kids but if I did I don't think Ireland would be a very great place to be for them.
    that is why i am telling them everyday,do well in school go to collage then get the fcuk outta here:(


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  • #37
    RiverOfLove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭RiverOfLove


    Grimreaper666 wrote: »
    Be prepared for much more austerity, much tougher times that will last for much longer and far less money to spend. Just saying like..........

    Blacking stuff


  • #38
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    Hope some peeps get murdered over all this ****.


  • #39
    RiverOfLove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭RiverOfLove


    Grimreaper666 wrote: »
    There won't be a future here considering all the new taxes and the pension funds have been cleaned out with talks of a levy being put on existing pensions too. People really need to wise up and plan a future in another country because Ireland as we knew will only be a distant memory to what's coming down the line. The vision of a future Ireland for what i'm seeing will resemble a very poor eastern block country with taxes heaped upon it's people. Not a bright future that's for sure.

    :(


  • #40
    RiverOfLove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭RiverOfLove


    downonthefarm wrote: »
    that is why i am telling them everyday,do well in school go to collage then get the fcuk outta here:(

    They'll probably have to sell themselves on the streets of holland to able to afford college.

    Edit: I mean when they're old enough


  • #41
    audman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 817 ✭✭✭audman


    RiverOfLove wrote: »
    They'll probably have to sell themselves on the streets of holland to able to afford college.

    Or the districts, the red light ones :P lol hehe!


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  • #42
    RiverOfLove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭RiverOfLove


    NIMAN wrote: »
    If the bond bubble bursts then it won't just be Ireland that will struggle.

    So what's this?
    Is this likely to happen?
    And what would it mean?


  • #43
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,352 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Most nations are bust.


  • #44
    RiverOfLove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭RiverOfLove


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Most nations are bust.

    Ah yes. This is correct. This is an depression similiar to the depression in 1930s.


  • #45
    Grimreaper666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭Grimreaper666


    Not as bust as we are and hopelessly bust at this stage but it's the absolute corruption and cronyism is what really gives me concern. If this isn't weeded out we have no chance.


  • #46
    downonthefarm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭downonthefarm


    RiverOfLove wrote: »
    They'll probably have to sell themselves on the streets of holland to able to afford college.

    Edit: I mean when they're old enough

    daddy will get them a cushy number in the bank


  • #47
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,560 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    What has struck me is since the new year is how little traffic there is around the city centre.
    I remember well Friday afternoons around Dublin 1 and 2 would be mental with traffic and trying to get parking was a nightmare.
    Recently the Baggot St, Merrion Sq and Fitzwilliam areas are now gone so quiet you can park almost where you like, when you like, its eerie and an indicator of how things have turned.


  • #48
    Grimreaper666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭Grimreaper666


    So much for green shoots and turning corners. We're in a depression now not a recession and will be there for a long time.


  • #49
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,965 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    RiverOfLove wrote: »
    Ah yes. This is correct. This is an depression similiar to the depression in 1930s.

    Worse than that because of the global nature of finance nowadays and how interlinked the various economies are.


  • #50
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,560 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    And with the latest revelations coming from the "Anglo Tapes" nobody is going to be feeling much better knowing that the government and the taxpayer have been royally shafted.
    Although most of us knew this already, but now its more official.


  • #51
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Let me tell you all something.

    Bollocks to learning Irish, French or German.
    Mandarin is the way to go.

    They are going to be the next big financial power as America slides.

    The next generation better be sharp and make fiscal allies with our little yellow friends.


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  • #52
    ulinbac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 707 ✭✭✭ulinbac


    Grimreaper666 wrote: »
    So much for green shoots and turning corners. We're in a depression now not a recession and will be there for a long time.


    Ireland is not in a depression. Growth was 0.9% last year.

    Though things are bad, I find that the Irish love a good moan and we always say that we are worse of then we are. Look at the reports the farmers send to the Irish govt. and EU for cap grants. Same report technically but different figures in each.

    As for the household charges, water rates etc. If you move to most other countries you will pay them. here in London we have water rates, council tax etc. its just that we were used to NOT paying them while most other countries do already.

    I'm by no means a fan of increaes taxes, rates etc. and believe that some people should be jailed for life for whats happened, but I don't see a problem with things like council tax and water rates. I understand people are struggling atm but what if we were paying these when times were good and had got used to them then, we wouldnt be moaning about them now and just accept them.


  • #53
    tin79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    Let me tell you all something.

    Bollocks to learning Irish, French or German.
    Mandarin is the way to go.

    They are going to be the next big financial power as America slides.

    The next generation better be sharp and make fiscal allies with our little yellow friends.

    Nothing makes a country want to be fiscal allies less than a racial slur.

    Also this thread is full of panicky children who should go back to the playground.


  • #54
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    I think that Ireland is a very corrupt country.

    Did you have a pop off your sister yet?


  • #55
    audman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 817 ✭✭✭audman


    ulinbac wrote: »
    Ireland is not in a depression. Growth was 0.9% last year.

    Though things are bad, I find that the Irish love a good moan and we always say that we are worse of then we are. Look at the reports the farmers send to the Irish govt. and EU for cap grants. Same report technically but different figures in each.

    As for the household charges, water rates etc. If you move to most other countries you will pay them. here in London we have water rates, council tax etc. its just that we were used to NOT paying them while most other countries do already.

    I'm by no means a fan of increaes taxes, rates etc. and believe that some people should be jailed for life for whats happened, but I don't see a problem with things like council tax and water rates. I understand people are struggling atm but what if we were paying these when times were good and had got used to them then, we wouldnt be moaning about them now and just accept them.

    0.9% is better than 0.0%, downright better!


  • #56
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Ireland isn't poor per se, we are just experiencing a rapid re-distribution of wealth from the poor to the already wealthy.


  • #57
    audman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 817 ✭✭✭audman


    biko wrote: »
    Ireland isn't poor per se, we are just experiencing a rapid re-distribution of wealth from the poor to the already wealthy.


    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_rich_get_richer_and_the_poor_get_poorer


  • #58
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    I'm so disgustingly rich it's positively vulgar.


  • #59
    ulinbac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 707 ✭✭✭ulinbac


    biko wrote: »
    Ireland isn't poor per se, we are just experiencing a rapid re-distribution of wealth from the poor to the already wealthy.


    Ah no!! the worst time to be poor believe it or not is during a boom. Everything increases in price like rent and food. Everyone receives more cash during the boom but the rich receive a larger amount due to investing in markets, buildings, increase in rents they receive etc. The poor never have any of this and only receive a marginal increase in income.

    The main deciles of the economy hit are 4-7 (middle income). They get a lot of benefits but see a lot of the losses when the cuts are made. The poor (bottom 3 deciles) tend to stay the same real income range as they never have investments, loans, credit cards etc. As the market bottoms out they stil receive govt. grants and benefit from the decrease in costs in food, clothes etc.

    Basically the poor do not see as much of a dramatic change where as everyone else does.


  • #60
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    So we're officially back in recession,wahey here's to another 4 years!


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  • #61
    DoesNotCompute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭DoesNotCompute


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    So we're officially back in recession

    Using which metric, GDP or GNP ?


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