Noonan warns 'we can't go mad again'

galwayredgirl · 13-12-2013 04:29PM #1

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1213/492576-bailout/

Who is this "we" that he is referring to? I definitely don't recall going mad and borrowing millions that any sane person would realise never had a hope of being paid back! :mad: I do know that I am suffering for this incompetence!

Anyone · 13-12-2013 04:33PM

Not 100% sure, but I don't think he meant you personally.

SV · 13-12-2013 04:33PM

Probably the hundreds of thousands that are still here that took out silly 110% mortgages and the likes.

Yellow121 · 13-12-2013 04:34PM

galwayredgirl wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1213/492576-bailout/

Who is this "we" that he is referring to? I definitely don't recall going mad and borrowing millions that any sane person would realise never had a hope of being paid back! :mad: I do know that I am suffering for this incompetence!

He's talking to the majority, people like you and me didn't have any party during the 'good times', many others did. They wont admit it, just as they wont admit this recession hasn't affected them but lets tell it as it is, there's a split in this country and one side are getting away with their mistakes while the other pays for them.

kneemos · 13-12-2013 04:34PM

We collectively I suppose is what he means.

keeponhurling · 13-12-2013 04:35PM

While he may or may not be talking sense, I do hate the use of "we" when talking about going mad "again"

gazzer · 13-12-2013 04:37PM

Everytime I see Noonan on TV talking about "214" instead of of 2014 I want to reach into the tv and slap him around the face.

Kippure · 13-12-2013 04:40PM

He should have said, the bank regulator, Heads of banks and estate agents.
Certain politicians and Builders. Not the Irish people. We the Irish people were sold a dead donkey from the beginning.

Sean Quagmire · 13-12-2013 04:41PM

I blame op personally for this mess.

eviltwin · 13-12-2013 04:43PM

Couldn't go mad even if I was in the mind to. Austerity has me broke, the maddest I get these days is a takeaway once a month

donegal. · 13-12-2013 04:48PM

remember that time noonan went to galway and went mad with that red girl? crazy times.
crazy

jimgoose · 13-12-2013 04:48PM

Ballacks. Better cancel the decking then. :mad:

Cienciano · 13-12-2013 04:49PM

Imagine getting blood products in a state run hospital and getting hepatitis c, having a long and painful death but some idiot was denying any wrong doing (even though they knew they were indeed wrong), not giving full information and dragging you from your deathbed in donegal to the high court?
Think that's what he means by "going mad". I'd have more respect for the piece of dog shíte on my shoe than Michael Noonan

galwayredgirl · 13-12-2013 04:59PM

donegal. wrote: »

remember that time noonan went to galway and went mad with that red girl? crazy times.
crazy

LostBoy101 · 13-12-2013 05:00PM

It is guaranteed to happen again if FF get back into power. I hope that won't be the case but sadly their rural countryside mates will vote them back in again.

Kippure · 13-12-2013 05:02PM

LostBoy101 wrote: »

It is guaranteed to happen again if FF get back into power. I hope that won't be the case but sadly their rural countryside mates will vote them back in again.

What ever it takes ff must never get the smell of power again.

Yellow121 · 13-12-2013 05:09PM

LostBoy101 wrote: »

It is guaranteed to happen again if FF get back into power. I hope that won't be the case but sadly their rural countryside mates will vote them back in again.

Kippure wrote: »

What ever it takes ff must never get the smell of power again.

You do realise FG's plan would have put us in a worse position than FF left us. Both need to be destroyed.

BadCharlie · 13-12-2013 05:16PM

Yellow121 wrote: »

You do realise FG's plan would have put us in a worse position than FF left us. Both need to be destroyed.

But you will notice plans are not stuck to when in power. Each party try and sell them self's when not in power which should be cut out if we are ever to have a fair election.

But saying that FF should never never be voted in... but looking at the polls it might not be that far off.

galwayredgirl · 13-12-2013 05:16PM

kneemos wrote: »

We collectively I suppose is what he means.

Good times = Individual (Me, myself & I and my cronies)

Bad Times = Collective (We all partied - we are all in this together)

It's sheer greed and cronyism that has this country banjaxed.

ScumLord · 13-12-2013 05:17PM

Oh jesus, I think the madness is coming over me again.. Rrghhhhh...

uch · 13-12-2013 05:18PM

LostBoy101 wrote: »

It is guaranteed to happen again if FF get back into power. I hope that won't be the case but sadly their rural countryside mates will vote them back in again.

Unfortunately, very true

hfallada · 13-12-2013 05:19PM

99.9% of Irish people had nothing to do with the mess we are in. If we had financial regulator doing its job we wouldn't have had massive bank debts. And if the government hadnt caved into every trade union demand, we wouldn't have had such massive public sector pay bill.

Fr_Dougal · 13-12-2013 05:20PM

You all partied. Bunch of feckin partiers, that's all you are.

techdiver · 13-12-2013 05:22PM

Yellow121 wrote: »

You do realise FG's plan would have put us in a worse position than FF left us. Both need to be destroyed.

FG needed to tell the dumb ass public what they wanted to hear. Would they be elected if they said we are going to cool the economy and tighten lending criteria for banks, thus making it more difficult to obtain a mortgage and get on the mythical "Property Ladder"!

All calls during the boom from all quarters, was more spending, more lending, more building...etc, etc...

You get the government you deserve!

mike65 · 13-12-2013 05:28PM

hfallada wrote: »

99.9% of Irish people had nothing to do with the mess we are in. If we had financial regulator doing its job we wouldn't have had massive bank debts. And if the government hadnt caved into every trade union demand, we wouldn't have had such massive public sector pay bill.

Plenty were willingly complicit in what was going on - money you could borrow at a rate lower than inflation meant anyone who could borrow did borrow. Homes in Portugal, Bulgaria, three cars in the drive, traded in every two years,
property porn (inside and out), "weekend breaks" in Amsterdam, and the rest, New York for the sales in January.

You only need to go back through the pages of this website to find examples of the "madness".

rubadub · 13-12-2013 05:32PM

'we can't go mad again'
-yes, you politicians should not show a mad lack of foresight again.

CruelCoin · 13-12-2013 05:36PM

galwayredgirl wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1213/492576-bailout/

Who is this "we" that he is referring to? I definitely don't recall going mad and borrowing millions that any sane person would realise never had a hope of being paid back! :mad: I do know that I am suffering for this incompetence!

Did you borrow 250ish-k for a 3 bed semi? tens of thousands did. Idiots all.
It's the accumulation, and the collective gravy train mentality that put us all here. Don't try fob it off.

Tabnabs · 13-12-2013 05:39PM

I can't read that headline without thinking of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8k1d8uX9Gw

Daith · 13-12-2013 05:42PM

It seems to go against that idea when people still think that increases in property is a "recovery".

Kippure · 13-12-2013 05:42PM

CruelCoin wrote: »

Did you borrow 250ish-k for a 3 bed semi? tens of thousands did. Idiots all.
It's the accumulation, and the collective gravy train mentality that put us all here. Don't try fob it off.

Whats wrong with borrowing money to buy a house?

LostBoy101 · 13-12-2013 05:43PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

You all partied. Bunch of feckin partiers, that's all you are.

But Father..

Noonan warns 'we can't go mad again'

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