Where the hell is westville?
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Where the hell is westville?
I have lived a life of regrets.
Its in Galway,Originally Posted by aml
Westside.
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The bosses, the bankers and the politicians are the enemy, not each other!!! The fatcats who make us pay tax while we worry about paying off a loan, not each other!
Teachers and nurses and doctors and public servants in other western EU countries are on much lower salaries than here. If Ireland borrows money from the ECB or these other countries, then lower paid public servants in those countries are contributing through their taxes to maintaining higher salaries for their brothers and sisters here. Of course this borrowed money has to be repaid at some stage and the interest on the debt serviced.......which probably means that services and benefits which are directed at the old, the sick, the poor, the unemployed and the young will have to be cut back and a hefty portion of the tax take (including the taxes of those still working in the private sector) and new taxes still to be introduced will end up propping up those nice permanent pensionable state employees. It's not just a question of whether they deserve large salaries or not.......it's a question of their employer's ability to pay those salaries and to keep an operation of this size on the road. Given that the state is borrowing 20 billion (give or take) per annum, there is an obvious inability to pay.
Benchmarking was a joke.......Bertie Ahern's solution to every problem was to trow money at it and strangely enough, a lot of additional public sector jobs were always created coming up to general elections. Now if the government can't or won't reduce public sector pay and numbers and instead engages in wholesale cut backs on the services that the public sector provides to the public, then the result will be that the public servants will end up doing less work and providing fewer services for the money they are paid.
The solution is probably for the IMF and/or ECB to step in and literally dictate to our lily-livered political gobshites. The public sector and their unions may be able to intimidate the political establishment here, but there will be no point in them giving the finger to the international financial system when they finally have to take it up the ass themselves.
It doesnt matter. The publice service in general are wasteful. From top to bottom they are wasting money and have being doing this for years. The councils are a frightening waste along with the like of FAS.Those public sector cuts were factor into the last budget as part of a means of getting this economy out of the bother its in. If it isnt sorted by the next budget then what? Factor it into the next one? Its fuckin nonsense.
Sincerely,
Westside.
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