Prepare to welcome your new IMF overlords

[Watch_The_Break]

@fist_of_fury

:lol: who wrote that lar?

It was on politics.ie last week. Doesn’t explain how cheese and prayer affects the situation.

[Mac]

Could we not just print a few of these to repay these huge loans?

[turfcutter]

We the people have received no leadership WTB not from the politicians and not from the unions, what if all the trade unions and all the business organisations organised a national strike, why haven’t the opposition parties called for a national strike (I hope you reading this Enda)

What proportion of the population haven been hit

I agree with you sentiment on civil dissent but certain elements could turn civil dissent into civil unrest and we just don’t need that

@Watch The Break

There are two main reasons for the absence of ‘civil disobedience’.

Firstly, a large proportion of the population have not had their living standards adversely impacted as of yet by the crisis. That will change after the budget. Secondly, the key mechanism for civil dissent is local organisation, or highly organised national workers organisations. Neither exist to any meaningful extent in Ireland. Therefore most people have no means of acting on their anger. That’s the reality of it.

[turfcutter]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

@larryduff

It is a slow day in a damp little Irish town. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the town, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel. The guy at the Farmers’ Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the pub. The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him “services” on credit. The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note. The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town. No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism. And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works.

[The_Puke]

@fist_of_fury

:lol: who wrote that lar?

same joke/story was doing the rounds about 18 months ago when the government were on about the stimulous package

[Watch_The_Break]

@turfcutter

We the people have received no leadership WTB not from the politicians and not from the unions, what if all the trade unions and all the business organisations organised a national strike, why haven’t the opposition parties called for a national strike (I hope you reading this Enda)

What proportion of the population haven been hit

I agree with you sentiment on civil dissent but certain elements could turn civil dissent into civil unrest and we just don’t need that

turfcutter, if we’re looking for leadership from the people who’ve sat in the Dail for the last ten years then it’s all the same.

[turfcutter]

No argument here

@Watch The Break

turfcutter, if we’re looking for leadership from the people who’ve sat in the Dail for the last ten years then it’s all the same.

[Watch_The_Break]

Anyone know who asked that question of Cowen earlier, did he feel betrayed by the actions of the Greens? Pathetic stuff.

[Bandage]

@Watch The Break

Anyone know who asked that question of Cowen earlier, did he feel betrayed by the actions of the Greens? Pathetic stuff.

I thought it sounded like Ursula Halligan at the time.

[KIB_man]

Their is a you tube clip of John O Donoghue . FF ard Fheis 2005 . Just watched it . Blood curdling stuff. Pop it up there someone.

[Watch_The_Break]

@KIB man

Their is a you tube clip of John O Donoghue . FF ard Fheis 2005 . Just watched it . Blood curdling stuff. Pop it up there someone.

I have it bookmarked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkh_UviAyI

[The_Runt]

Wonder if Edna Kenny will stick his head above the parapet today? Bar a small sound byte on 6 One last night he has hardly been seen. It’s galling that the cunt has a such a strong chance of being the next Taoiseach.

[Whiplash]

@Watch The Break

Not to interrupt the repentant capitalist tinnion, but haven’t people being saying this for fucking ages?

edit: by the way isn’t what’s happening now a perversion of capitalism?

Amazing quote by Karl Marx.

"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

Karl Marx, 1867

[The_Runt]

@Whiplash

Amazing quote by Karl Marx.

"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

Karl Marx, 1867

My brother knows him.

[Fagan_ODowd]

Fake quote there from Marx. Good one but fake.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Whiplash

Amazing quote by Karl Marx.

"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

Karl Marx, 1867

He was the least funny of the Marxs Brothers

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas I’ll never know.”

Groucho Marx

[The_Puke]

Sid must have emigrated :unsure:

[The_Runt]

I see Spain and Portugals yields are rising again today.
Are they active in the fund raising markets at the moment or are they funded for the next few months?

[Julio_Geordio]

Portugal has 6 billion coming up in Feb & March. They’re under pressure big style

[Watch_The_Break]

@The Runt

My brother knows him.

Splendid