Ireland

[Mega]

http://www.businessinsider.com/an-ir...auldin-2011-10
Mike

[bpwoods]

Re: Ireland

Ah Mega! You surely do not believe all that stuff? McWilliams is a 'Celebrity Economist'. Yeah, things are difficult and set to get worser (sic). The social welfare cases Maudlin quotes are - few, but salient. The majority get E200 p/w (now less 10% to comfort those poor banksters). Some brat of a bankster, about to be coronated as a CEO - and whose bank is 95% owned by the Irish taxpayer, is demanding the equivalent of E20,000 (yes 20 grand!) p/w. I kid you not!

Meanwhile the meeja (media in the Queen's) are busily whacking the bejasus out of the public sector - "Uncooperative, resisting change and reform" - and such-like baloney. And our loyal bankster wallas are shilling "NO AN INCH" - (to financial regulation). Sound familiar?

Don't you just luv it when you see Sarko, Angie and the rest of the herd perched on the river-bank, shit scared of the crocs, as they wait to plunge in, and dash for the other side - and freedom!

Brian

[Mega]

Re: Ireland

Good eveing Brian
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-29566578/

I hear food is very expensive in Ireland, my mate was shocked by the prices.........?

BTW are you in Wexford?
Mike

[Mega]

Re: Ireland

You need Jim Corr:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wCuyZ_5n_c

[seanm123]

Re: Ireland

Just had a visit here in the US from family that moved back to Wexford Irleand over 30 years ago. The children are emigrating again, this time it is not the US, they are heading off to New Zealand where apparently they are welcome. I saw first hand the housing bubble and the stone mansions that were built everywhere. Every farmer bought flats in Dublin to rent out to Polish immigrants and others who were getting a check as well. They made the rest of us look like pikers with 20 year olds buying several investment properties during the boom. The article above is dead on too many on the dole. Younger cousins of mine now collect a check while scourging the fields for scrap metal to sell, there are no jobs for the younger generation. My dear old mom used to send money regulary for decades, that has not happened yet again, and if it does well then our kinship will prevail as it always has.

[bpwoods]

Re: Ireland

Dublin. Tesco are making a 'killing' here. M+S seem to be doing KO as well. There have been persistant complaints about excessive prices here. No major change in prospect. Sneaky commodity and service price increases are well on the way: increases in local gov charges; road tolls; insurances of all stripes; energy. Dreary stuff.

Whose in charge of the shop over there? The X-Factor crew? Our lot would make Fawlty Towers seem positively sane. You want to see the antics in our House? Log onto www.merrionstreet.ie. Pathetic stuff.

Bye-the-bye. Is that pic on your masthead, whom I think it is? Like tik-tok, and "Whatever your having yourself"? Jaysus Mega!

Brian.

[bpwoods]

Re: Ireland

Just be a tad careful what you read. And on no account pay a blind bit of heed to the TV reports. They're just plain confusing. Things are indeed very difficult but being made worse by the lunacy of insisting that the way out of the financial mess is to borrow another s**t-load of fiat money. Its insane. Unemployment is at 16% - if you can believe that (more like 20%+). Residential property increased by 350%!!! from 1996 to 2007. On the way back down and a lot of folk are in big-bad trouble. Our personal bankruptcy takes 12 years!!! Residential mortgages are recourse. Neg equity is a real predicament. Still, we do have good farm land and fresh water - if they would only go easy on the inorganic fertilizer. So we can easily feed ourselves. Now keeping ourselves warm in winter? Hmmmmm. See you round.

Brian

[touchring]

Re: Ireland

Just be a tad careful what you read. And on no account pay a blind bit of heed to the TV reports. They're just plain confusing. Things are indeed very difficult but being made worse by the lunacy of insisting that the way out of the financial mess is to borrow another s**t-load of fiat money. Its insane. Unemployment is at 16% - if you can believe that (more like 20%+). Residential property increased by 350%!!! from 1996 to 2007. On the way back down and a lot of folk are in big-bad trouble. Our personal bankruptcy takes 12 years!!! Residential mortgages are recourse. Neg equity is a real predicament. Still, we do have good farm land and fresh water - if they would only go easy on the inorganic fertilizer. So we can easily feed ourselves. Now keeping ourselves warm in winter? Hmmmmm. See you round.

Brian

I'm keen on Bank of Ireland, but the ADR seems overpriced as compared to the mother stock.

[Shakespear]

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Things are indeed very difficult but being made worse by the lunacy of insisting that the way out of the financial mess is to borrow another s**t-load of fiat money.

The reason for this is that I suspect lots of politicians are people with grades like these,

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/u...ranscript.jpeg

[bpwoods]

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You raise an interesting issue. Would a meaningful third-level education improve legislative behaviour? God knows! What is completely beyond doubt is that pols everywhere are paranoid about re-election, and will do anything (even criminal acts) to ensure they get back. Dreadful, but true.

Our lot are a very mixed bunch indeed. But mediocre attainment is prevelant, with a sprinkling of Rednecks and intellectual head-bangers. Its not what is needed, but it is what we have put up in front of us at election time. Irish politics is a tad unusual. We did not have the socialist-conservative, church-state cleavage after WW1. Our politics cleaved along a Civil War divide. In 1937 DeValera artfully inserted the RC Church into our Constitution. Very mischivous and damaging. We are only, barely, recovering. Essentially (in US terms) we have a Right-wing Democratic party (Fine Gael) and a Left-wing Republican party (Fianna Fáil) with a neutral, so-called Socialist party (Labour) making up the sandwich material. FF has gone down the tubes: electorate mauled them in last Feb general election. They have been replaced - in part, by an Irish version of National Socializm (Sinn Fein). If you know anyone that speaks Sicilian - get them to translate SF. Not funny!

Brian.

[Shakespear]

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Brian, believe me I know better.

I just put that up there as I ran across an article discussing Perry who pretends to be the next best candidate for President of USA. In it someone posted his grades. There in plain sight you can see that for something as basic as "History of USA" this guy managed a "C". That says a lot.

[Mega]

Re: Ireland

Yes Brian
but how much is a nice female?

Mike

[bpwoods]

Re: Ireland

Ah yes! Very important matter indeed. Terms and Conditions - would apply, you understand. There is a famous Percy French song about this somewhat delicate matter. It resolved itself about the perceived difference: Kitty v Jane; pretty v plain and whether or not a heifer would be an appropriate compensation. Kinda subjective. Bargain would struck over a pint.

Brian.

[lektrode]

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...Our lot are a very mixed bunch indeed. But mediocre attainment is prevelant, with a sprinkling of Rednecks and intellectual head-bangers. ... Essentially (in US terms) we have a Right-wing Democratic party (Fine Gael) and a Left-wing Republican party (Fianna Fáil) with a neutral, so-called Socialist party (Labour) making up the sandwich material. FF has gone down the tubes: electorate mauled them in last Feb general election. They have been replaced - in part, by an Irish version of National Socializm (Sinn Fein). If you know anyone that speaks Sicilian - get them to translate SF. Not funny!

thanks for that bp - have seldom seen a more insightful summary of irish politix.

writes an american of irish ancestry

[Mega]

Re: Ireland

Not being funny but i watch those prices very closely..........here in Blighty i go to "The Whore exchange" (Aduiltwork.com) & track how much..........if the "Lady" wanted £1200 a night & now wants £600 you can see whats happening to "Bussniess"...........
Mike