Watching my country go down the tubes

[lesbiassparrow]

Holy feck, Ireland is totally screwed isn't it?

Watched the Paxman interview with Brian Lenihan. Favourite moment (and a question no one in Ireland would ever dare to raise) was the bit where he said 'wouldn't your assertion [that Ireland will regain its financial health] be rather more plausible were this crisis not entirely a result of your own incompetence."

Sad fact: Cowen, Lenihan, Harney and the lot of them will retire on immense pensions and my sister will have her meagre wages cut further because everyone knows that the public sector is overpaid. Except for the politicians. You can't pay enough for the clowns we have! (Did you know out esteemed leader is paid more than the President of the US?)

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[queenthesixth.livejournal.com]

What gets me is that we're in this pickle because the old boys network kicked into gear when it come to developing property and they were giving each other handouts to beat the band. I mean, half of the places that got flooded last year had buildings on areas where there never should have been. The government created this mess and now they're going around saying 'We did this as a nation'. Dude, I was housebound with crohns when all this was going on, I never even got a chance to go mad in the celtic tiger economy.

What really pisses me off though is you hear about drastic cuts. That's all they have. It's not inspiring leadership because it wouldn't hurt them to promote entrepreneurship because someone or someones out there has/have some good ideas to promote economic growth but they just can't get the funding. Taxing people who have little to start with isn't going to solve this and when the more I hear about taxes and tolls on the roads, the more I think I'm about to fall into a Robin Hood story.

Bah!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

If I read one more person suggesting that by wanting some of the people responsible for this to be punished, answers and a new government that people are betraying the state. My sister didn't wallow in Euros. She had none of the fancy holidays. She bought a house with my mother because there was no renter protection at all in Ireland and rents were sky high. And now she has to listen the powers that be talk about how she's overpaid and that the 14% of her meagre income they've already cut isn't enough - as they drive around in their expensive cars and earn huge sums of money.

I honestly can't believe FF is still in with a chance in Donegal. My old county, too...