"get the vaseline ready"

[LLAMEDOS]

--- and BRACE YERSELF for a FIANNA FAIL(URE) arse stinging SHAFTING later today = BUDGET.

[Dub Lad]

Actually finna fail has played this budget extremely well. What contains in the budget has been little by little the last few weeks.

The social welfare unemployed benefit we all know is going to be cut by about 5% and bigger cut for under 23's.

Child benefits also will be subject to means tested or taxed im not sure on the details.

So it has been out in the domain for awhile now so the government can get a feel of public opinion.

[oneeyedreilly]

There'll be no arse shafting, hard decisions needed and the only hard thing about F.F. are their necks. The country needs major surgery and they use band aid. Bring on the I.M.F. and stop F.F. and the unions shafting the country.

[dom]

There'll be no arse shafting, hard decisions needed and the only hard thing about F.F. are their necks. The country needs major surgery and they use band aid. Bring on the I.M.F. and stop F.F. and the unions shafting the country.

I can't really agree with this.
I am in agreement that FF have done a piss poor job of reacting to the economic downturn.

But to say bring on the IMF is the cry of an idiot.

They will make cuts without compassion.

If you want to see the least fortunate in our society become totally neglected, then that's what you'll get if your wish comes through.

keep that in mind the next time you complain about how the government has abandoned our special needs children, our elderly, our health service, our unemployed, our homeless, our at risk children, etc etc.

You can multiply it all by 10 if the IMF take control.

dom

[dave1dave]

I hope they don't add V.A.T. to escorting services.

[oneeyedreilly]

I am neither a Sun reader or an idiot. Our glorious government are already attacking the services you so laudably mention. They are ones attacking the vunerable and weaker sections of our society while at the same time protecting the fat cat salaries of themselves, higher civil servants, lawyers, bankers, developers and anyone else who has creamed the country via tribunals, bad planning, brown envelopes .loans to greedy developers etc.
The I.M.F will at least start at the top and slash politicians and public servants fat wages/ pensions.
The whole system is corrupt and the public purse is being raped by the public sector and all the scam artists who live off it and abuse it at every opportunity.

[nappertandy]

we're puckered suckered n fuckered

[experienced punter]

The whole system is corrupt and the public purse is being raped by the public sector and all the scam artists who live off it and abuse it at every opportunity.

Aha! I love the way you put that sums this country up a country that has gone down the drain at a fast fast rate, remember too bank debt is now taxpayers debt would u believe it...

[dom]

I am neither a Sun reader or an idiot. Our glorious government are already attacking the services you so laudably mention. They are ones attacking the vunerable and weaker sections of our society while at the same time protecting the fat cat salaries of themselves, higher civil servants, lawyers, bankers, developers and anyone else who has creamed the country via tribunals, bad planning, brown envelopes .loans to greedy developers etc.
The I.M.F will at least start at the top and slash politicians and public servants fat wages/ pensions.
The whole system is corrupt and the public purse is being raped by the public sector and all the scam artists who live off it and abuse it at every opportunity.

There is no way possible to try to correct the level of debt we are in nor the rate of borrowing without hitting all classes and sectors.
I already stated that.
I also stated that whatever you feel about the governments policies and who they affect, you could multiply it by 10 if we fall under the IMF to restructure us.

And then you reply as if you haven't read what i said.
Or maybe you just don't understand it.

But, let me make this clear.
Irrespective of when recovery starts here, we are in for at least two more tough budgets.
the government have structured it so as to hit us over a 3-year period in the hope that by year 3 the recovery will be good enough for it to be the softest of the budgets.

If the IMF move in, they will counteract all of our overspending and borrowing in one calendar year.
Lets see you approve of that 5 years after it happens IF it happens and the country is still on it's knees.

Also, don't confuse the banking crises and the recession.
they are two distinctly separate issues we currently have to deal with.

dom