Budget 2012

[Flano]

The influx of idiot bogmen onto this forum makes threads like these comedy gold.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Fagan ODowd

Will the fella with the big teeth from KPMG be doing the expert role on Primetime tonight. Speaking of KPMG I see the fella with the big hair has stood down as managing partner and been replaced by the fella with no hair. That’s austerity for you.

It’s the fella with the big teeth

[Julio_Geordio]

@Watch The Break

Someone must have bought Julio a suit.

I own many suits.

[braz83]

The wine was flying off the shelves at Tesco in Merrion this evening. The middle classes are in full-on panic buying mode.

[Bisto]

the most expensive part of the budget will be the bill for all the overtime the cops will get for hanging round government buildings and adjoining side streets tonite with not a sinner about…they were everywhere and even 3 dublin bus loads of them keeping warm parked up on kildare street…grattan lane blocked off…didn´t they know the shinners would be off watching celtic??..

[balbec]

@Sidney

I think Julio’s philosophy is that the poor will work harder if you give them less money, but the rich will work harder if you give them more money.

Strange also how the people who are crying out for the dole to be cut are usually the same people crying out for the minimum wage to also be cut. Presumably the hope then is that as there will be no incentive to stay on the dole but also no incentive to work, that enough poor people will then decide to fuck off and die, or at least emigrate to Australia and never come back, therefore reducing public spending and solving the problem.

It’s extremely important that in order to save the Irish economy, that it is destroyed first. We must not waver in this endeavour.

It is basic supply side economics Sidney.Get price adjustment, reduce labour rates, encourage the disincentive to work from the dole (provided you can get a job of course). The economy becomes competitive and growth resumes. The dole should have been cut in the good days.

[balbec]

a euro tax on every bottle of wine? That is not fair, it discriminates against the low income buyer of cheap wine and subsidises the middle class claret brigade.

[Horsebox]

@braz83

The wine was flying off the shelves at Tesco in Merrion this evening. The middle classes are in full-on panic buying mode.

Ha! It was too mate-I thought my eyes were deceiving me. Fucking trolly loads of the stuff-the offy in there resembled new years eve-fucking pathetic.

[Sidney]

@balbec

It is basic supply side economics Sidney.Get price adjustment, reduce labour rates, encourage the disincentive to work from the dole (provided you can get a job of course). The economy becomes competitive and growth resumes. The dole should have been cut in the good days.

There’s no dole in the Central African Republic or Somalia and labour rates are low. Basic supply side economics at work there I guess.

[Mac]

@braz83

The wine was flying off the shelves at Tesco in Merrion this evening. The middle classes are in full-on panic buying mode.

The same goons would be in a queue in a petrol station for half an hour last year to save themselves the guts €3 off a tank of fuel.

The euro on a bottle of wine is nothing in fairness, the large supermarkets will find a way around it easily enough. If they really wanted to go after it they’d have tackled the below cost selling but that would’ve been too complicated for them.

[Chavez]

@balbec

The dole should have been cut in the good days.

that would have required common sense from FF politicians…are you kidding?

[Beautiful_City]

Scumpot you must be delighted that your dole wasn’t cut although with the cost of booze and fags increasing i’d imagine that there’s an awful mad scramble to buy as much drink as possible in the shops and off licenses of Sherrif Street and Rialto this evening!

[Fagan_ODowd]

@balbec

a euro tax on every bottle of wine? That is not fair, it discriminates against the low income buyer of cheap wine and subsidises the middle class claret brigade.

That’s true. I’ll hardly notice it on the Barolo.

[Bisto]

@Beautiful City

Scumpot you must be delighted that your dole wasn’t cut although with the cost of booze and fags increasing i’d imagine that there’s an awful mad scramble to buy as much drink as possible in the shops and off licenses of Sherrif Street and Rialto this evening!

as mad as the mad scramble to buy as much drink as possible in the shops and off licenses of knocknaheeny, blackpool,gra na brathar and mahon this evening!

[Beautiful_City]

@scumpot

as mad as the mad scramble to buy as much drink as possible in the shops and off licenses of knocknaheeny, blackpool,gra na brathar and mahon this evening!

Arra whatever about the other two Blackpool and Gurran are grand spots.

[Sidney]

The people at the checkout beside me when I was queueing at my local Super Valu at 7:20 this evening had about 20 bottles of wine in their trolley.

[balbec]

@Sidney

There’s no dole in the Central African Republic or Somalia and labour rates are low. Basic supply side economics at work there I guess.

well the laws of supply and demand of goods and labour tend to work the same in all markets. and have done for thousands of years.

[balbec]

@Sidney

The people at the checkout beside me when I was queueing at my local Super Valu at 7:20 this evening had about 20 bottles of wine in their trolley.

Maybe they were Poles having a Mikolajki party today?

[Julio_Geordio]

@Sidney

There’s no dole in the Central African Republic or Somalia and labour rates are low. Basic supply side economics at work there I guess.

Yes because there is an over supply of labour

[Julio_Geordio]

Seems there was a major rush on the offies last night
One of the lads here bought two crates of wine :lol: and said some chick in there spent 600 quid on wine while he was there.