This message has been edited - 16-nov-2008 @ 10:43

Originally posted by herbertstown:
Can you imagine the state of the country if you had that fool Kenny running the country.

Originally posted by abadref:
Its Gettin beyond a joke .................
God help ye but ye blame  (a democraticly voted government for everything  )   Lets just ignore the fact that we`ve built a savage infrastructure ie: roads, Hospitals,and Universities..
Sure ye can complain about the health service  (yet ignore the fact that our countries population has grown by more than a third on the last ten years  )   and our govt has done nothing in our boom time!  (sure we might as well forget about the M50,M1,M4,M6, Uni`s,schools etc..Then we`ll ignore the broadband  (albeit slow  )   and cable infrastructure etc etc....Are most of the jobs here Irish or   (totally  )   influenced by foreign corporations!!! The reason we are in such dire straits is because of the greedy farmers that demanded so much for a site, the greedy builders who demanded so much for a house but most of all the normal citizen who decided to pay so much for a house!   (in 100 years they will be looked back on as foolish idiots  )   Just a clueless pack of clowns who were only "keeping up with the Jones`s" in buying their over priced houses.

I take it most of the bitterness here is due to idiots who are prob in negative equity!!!!!!!!!

Thankfully I bought property which has doubled in price and the rent pays well above my mortgage!!

Yes give out and complain and ignore the fact that our   (miniscule country and economy  )   relies allmost totally on the US and UK  (who are also in recession  )   which totally effects us..?!   (right or wrong!!!  )  

Come on ye cynics and if ye have any intelligence ye will realise that its not our   (democratically elected  )   government that was elected fault but the idiots who do not understand simple economics...

and phsics


for every boom ...

there must be a bust!

And I have studied both to a   (embarassingly high  )   level

God bless ye who blame the govt.

I wish I was that ignorant and nive.

God bless ye.

And those who agree please comment `cos I know all the "experts" surely will

From what I can make out we have a lot of communists in our ranks but I apologise to the communists here if they think I mix them up with the bitters here who obviosly don`tknow what they are talkin about and even worse "don`teven know what a tracker mortgage is.......and the rest!  )  

Originally posted by long danny:
Obviously studying English to an    (embarassingly   )   high level is not your forte in life.

Lets ignore the state of our primary schools and the fact that we fund private schools to the tune of €80-odd million every year.
Lets ignore the fact that there is hardly a playground in the country but we spend €170m on horse and dog racing.
Lets ignore the fact that in Beaumont hospital last week we ran out of trolleys and had to use ambulances so that the sick could be cared for. The only advantage of this is that an older person did not have to suffer the indignity of having every Joe and Josephine passing them as they suffered.
Lets ignore the fact that if your sick relative is lucky enough to get a bed you have to pay for parking in order to visit them.
Lets ignore the 1%levy that goes up to 2% but stops there for those that `earn` real mega-bucks.
Lets ignore a stamp duty regime that is specifically designed to help developers to rape people with prices way over the correct value of the house.
Lets ignore the fact that the bank exc s that made the most appalling decisions purely designed to garner massive bonuses.
Lets ignore road tolls.
Lets ignore areas such as Galway and their water problems.
Lets ignore the    (slow   )    roll-out of broadband services.
Lets ignore the fact that the pension bill for public servants will break us in years to come. A fact agreed by the unions who also expect the ordinary working Joe to pay for it.
Lets ignore the fact that huge increases in wages were given to public servants with scant regard to increases in productivity etc..
Lets ignore that the above is the tip of the iceberg.
Lets not ignore that it is indeed getting beyond a joke.

Originally posted by An fear glas agus dubh:


Ah nothing like a bitter blue shirt!!! When was the last time ye won an election again?

Originally posted by blueprint:

Jaypers Danny , that was a dirty dig .

Originally posted by long danny:
Lets ignore the 1%levy that goes up to 2% but stops there for those that `earn` real mega-bucks.

Originally posted by abadref:
Its Gettin beyond a joke .................
God help ye but ye blame  (a democraticly voted government for everything  )   Lets just ignore the fact that we`ve built a savage infrastructure ie: roads

Originally posted by Ungrateful_Whelp:

Originally posted by blueprint:

Talking of the voters the really scary thing is that according to the recent opinion polls alot of them would like to see Bertie back again .

Originally posted by long danny:


What do you make of that? As if there were not enough question to be asked of this shleeveen. And do you know what, if the fcuker went for the park job there would be a massive coterie of people waiting to cast their ballots in his favour.

Originally posted by blueprint:


I think people are associating Bertie with the " good times ",
bring back Bertie and therefore bring back the good times - if it was only that simple .

Originally posted by qwerty:
The current government is proving itself spectacularly incompetent but I think Berties government   (2002-2007  )   should go down as the worst goverment in the history of the state. The amount of money they had at their disposal could have put the economy on a sound footing for years to come but the lack of imagination and conviction that Bertie and his gobs**e Ministers demonstrated mean we will all suffer over the next 10 years.
They bought the elections with giveaway budgets and the electorate fell for it hook line and sinker.
We deserve the government we get but at least I have the satisfaction of not voting for them.

How many of members of the FF hierarchy would you trust witha real job in the Private sector ?
Did the FF Government make one courageous or difficult decision in its lifetime ?