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jm105845

Member Since: 21 Aug 2007
Location: dublin
Posts: 271

irish budget

hi fellow irish members

what are your views on the cuts yesterday

10th Dec 2009 12:59 pm

al cope

Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10297

if you dont get any answers, its because they've all left the country, although they wont want to come over here either

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10th Dec 2009 1:13 pm

tanters

Member Since: 24 Oct 2007
Location: Oireland
Posts: 4284

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Cuts were a necessity as we're broke!

What the public sector unions fail to grasp is that their employer i.e. the state, is broke and up to their tits in debt.
Companies in the private sector that are in this situation are left with few choices i.e. cut wages, lay off people or shut down.

The only option left to the Government was to cut pay 'cos lay offs in the cosy public sector would have been unthinkable. Therefore I have no sympathy for someone in the public sector losing 5-7% on their salary if that means they keep their jobs and their pension entitlements.

I currently have 9 good friends out of work at the moment with no immediate prospects of finding work bar one or two of them hoping to start something up themselves in the new year. No doubt the banks will have a big say in that.......

On social welfare cuts its a hard one. The fear is that young people will just emigrate and the brain drain will start all over again like in the 80's. I'd just hate to be leaving school next September facing little job prospects and little assistance.

Biggest thing missed in this budget - no job creation or stimulus. They admit themselves there will be a further 72,000 job losses in 2010 and thats probably a conservative estimate no doubt. The rest of the world seems to have picked themselves up somewhat but we're still lying prostrate on the ground. So many projects need doing and completing and thousands of skilled tradesmen sitting on the dole

One example - my missus is a teacher and she works in a portacabin school for the past 6 years - a 1 year temporary solution whilst the new school was being built ...... 6 years later she has to put buckets on the floor when it rains heavily as her 'cabin' is falling apart

get people back to work and get them spending in the shops! Simples

A happy childhood ... is the worst possible preparation for life.

10th Dec 2009 1:39 pm

tanters

Member Since: 24 Oct 2007
Location: Oireland
Posts: 4284

al cope wrote:
its because they've all left the country

Al

tempted I tell ye

A happy childhood ... is the worst possible preparation for life.

10th Dec 2009 1:40 pm

al cope

Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10297

if you can work out where to go, I could be tempted to join you

Al Volvo XC90 B5 Plus Dark
Gone - MY18 D5 HSE - Corris on 22's with Black Pack
Now gone - MY16 D4 SE Tech, Loire Blue, Almond Leather, Privacy, plus some other goodies.
Old - MY12 D4 SDV6 XS Auto - Ipanema Sand with Almond Leather - Plus other niceties, and D4.com sticker
Older - D3 TDV6 XS Auto - Lugano Teal with Almond Leather, 20" Stormers, Shiny Tailpipes, DVD/TV - and obligatory D3 sticker
Ancient - D3 TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony, 20" Stormers, satnav & DVD

10th Dec 2009 1:44 pm

bigdave
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Member Since: 04 Jul 2008
Location: Cornwall
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Simple lets all go get a job in Brussels!!

Millions of useful bureaucratic type jobs going there now we are part of the Soviet European Union.

And its well paid and you cant get sacked.

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10th Dec 2009 3:09 pm

al cope

Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10297

we could be responsible for european 4x4 directives

or as we've got LRs, should that be defectives

Al Volvo XC90 B5 Plus Dark
Gone - MY18 D5 HSE - Corris on 22's with Black Pack
Now gone - MY16 D4 SE Tech, Loire Blue, Almond Leather, Privacy, plus some other goodies.
Old - MY12 D4 SDV6 XS Auto - Ipanema Sand with Almond Leather - Plus other niceties, and D4.com sticker
Older - D3 TDV6 XS Auto - Lugano Teal with Almond Leather, 20" Stormers, Shiny Tailpipes, DVD/TV - and obligatory D3 sticker
Ancient - D3 TDV6 S - Tonga with Ebony, 20" Stormers, satnav & DVD

10th Dec 2009 3:25 pm