Our Children and Our Childrens Children

[Wakeupcall]

Having read some of the topics on p.IE recently it seems apparent to me that this nation is a failure.

Our children will pay. Our childrens children will pay.

Politicians, bankers and their buddys are to blame. Aside from them, the ignorance of the tax payer has also to be mentioned. Parents guaranteeing hundreds of thousands of euros for their own children's shoe box huts. Ignorant fools buying houses they cannot afford simply because they can sell them later for a profit. Silly fools remortgaging the house they paid 30K for in the 90's (and fully owned almost) for todays prices for hundreds of thousands of euros and now cannot pay them back. What did they do with all this loaned capitol? Can the ordinary Joe not be trusted with quantities of money beyond a certain point? It looks that way.

How can we as a nation look at ourselves as a whole and say, well I am proud of our nation? I cannot see how it is possible.

I am a 24 year old working 70 hours per week out of my own choice. I have no debts, no loans or property. I am faced with the bill of the nation in the next budget and coming budgets.

I am thinking that people like me should be given a wild card. People like me bring ideas and stimulation to this economy and its businesses. We cannot be straddled, for it will be the definite end of this nation and its economy.

If you were me, what would you do or think or FEEL?

[iartaoiseach]

there is a thread about the failed state on here today. check it out

[Wakeupcall]

there is a thread about the failed state on here today. check it out

I checked it... I already knew it.

[iartaoiseach]

I checked it... I already knew it.

I suppose there aren't solutions in it as such maybe just that our national attitude needs to change. but your wild card idea has merit. just none for anyone whose daddy was a TD.

[sauntersplash]

I suppose there aren't solutions in it as such maybe just that our national attitude needs to change. but your wild card idea has merit. just none for anyone whose daddy was a TD.

What does "wild card" mean?

[Utopian Hermit Monk]

on the positive side, Wakeupcall ...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MznLU4USbA]YouTube - Busted-Year 3000[/ame]

... your great great great granddaughter is pretty fine!


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[Dios]

How can we as a nation look at ourselves as a whole and say, well I am proud of our nation? I cannot see how it is possible.

There is a difference between the elected and electorate, and never has it been more pronounced. The flagellants can join the politicos on the slow boat as far as I'm concerned. Is there any particular reason this is in the economy forum?

[EvotingMachine0197]

What does "wild card" mean?

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What's a wild card ?

[Wakeupcall]

There is a difference between the elected and electorate, and never has it been more pronounced. The flagellants can join the politicos on the slow boat as far as I'm concerned. Is there any particular reason this is in the economy forum?

Because what I am talking about is economy related mostly.

Wildcards for ages 30 and under who show entrepreneurialship who are debt free and have not ridden the gravy train would be an idea. It is us who will have to pull the currently straddled nation out of its hole. We need support! Economic support for viable ideas and new or existing processes in the form of breaks rather than handouts (because the handouts / grants simply do not exist today)

[Dios]

Because what I am talking about is economy related mostly.

So you didn't snort up a big noseful of guilt by proxy in that useless thread in current affairs then?