Brian Lenihan - "Tough budget on the way"

[droghedasouth]

Interest alone on this years extra debt (12 billion deficit + 3.5 billion to BoI + 3.5 billion to AIB + at least 7 billion to Anglo Irish) will exceed 1,000,000,000.oo euro a year.

[MsAnneThrope]

tough but fair....you negative nellies only have yourselves to blame for talking us into this mess.....

You won't be saying that when Mommy knocks another €1 off your pocket money

[FakeViking]

The lesson from the last fe days is that the public have had enough of the tax increases. We need a government that will tackle spending (esp. the public service) not one that robs the taxpayer to fund waste.

The lessonn is that we need a govt that can make and implement decisions, not just play at medicore spin doctoring.

[garlandgreen]

No No. let them go out in a whimper. Don't be giving the shinners ideas

[super pedestrian]

tough but fair....you negative nellies only have yourselves to blame for talking us into this mess.....

Go F[COLOR=darkred]*[/COLOR][COLOR=black]*k[/COLOR] yourself in front of a bus you insufferable C**t.

[MM FF]

Go F[COLOR=darkred]*[/COLOR][COLOR=black]*k[/COLOR] yourself in front of a bus you insufferable C**t.

dear boy ! that's not very nice for someone with a soft spot for pedestrians as your name suggest - sounds like you want me to take your place in your nightmare.....

[ManOfReason]

Did he mention any new laws to stop Friends of Fianna Fail from lining their own pockets with our money?

Any word from him of impending charges to be filed against the ex-management of Anglo who have misled investors and the government?

Any sign of ACTUAL money being handed over by child abuse enablers in the religious orders (rather then the pathetic photo op of the religious orders being called in by the government)?

No, just the the usual S*** from Lenihan then. They did the minimum in the last couple of budgets to get past the elections, now we will see a crippling budget (but not FF lackys will be fired from their cushy government funded jobs) and Lenihan will try and portray it as a virtue that he is taking our money to pay for FF nod-and-wink politics. He must think we are all as thick as the quarter of the electorate who voted for FF in this election.

[anewbeginning]

He'll need to raise €8bn then because the riots will cost €4bn

Has he ever considered reducing spending? As I write retired Irish army chiefs, who have only ever done battle with a wasp after their Choc-Ice, earn more than their active counterparts in the US and UK. This nonsense, replicated across countless Government departments and quangoes, has to be ended immediately. Of course Lenihan could start with his own salary and entitlements and those of his hangers-on in the Dáil...

No country could sustain the number of useless hangers-on we have.

Spending ran away under Bertie and Cowen in their efforts to buy off everyone, since the FF way has always been to buy off people and allow themselves to be bought.

FF only want to be in government to benefit from corrupt payments and that's the reason they bought off everyone.

Fianna Fail corruption is the main reason the value of our wage packets is decreasing. I doubt a pr*ck like Cowen with care though. Nor will his bosses in the banking and construction industry care either.

[anewbeginning]

Sean Fitzpatrick is a bondholder in Anglo Irish Bank. The government will use that as an excuse not to touch him and Fitzpatrick knows that.

How would it look to international investors to have a bondholder doing a prepwalk, I can hear Brian Lenihan saying something similar already.

[asset test]

A new broom sweeps clean. The current Government are the cause of the bulk of our horrendous debt. (MMFF do not please darling say anything about the global crisis, thanks.).

So it will be a lot easier for a new crowd to sack all the members of quangos (no relation to them), bring in cuts (it was ff's fault), let Anglo go to the wall, and most importantly of all, get rid of NAMA and let the developers sort themselves out.