Year end and where do we find ourselves as a country, people and individuals. out their in the Irish world, their are still people who are not affected by the recession, in fact they find everything a bit cheaper! and wonder why. The rest of us PAYE are Paying All Your Earnings to everybody but not recieving anything substantial for it. I am afraid that this is going to be the story for the moment and the conversation of choice around the dinner tables of D4. Slowley we see the 148 people classed with destroying the country getting their day in the courts as €€€ amount after €€€ amount is charged against them, we watch the deals being done and the bankruptcy's being entered into and take cold comfort from it.
Meanwhile people are ending up in John of Gods and St Pats and not understanding why they are there. The point being that as the year closes we all need to take a deep breath and listen to our fellow man, listen for signs of weakness, listen so they can talk and if you need to talk I hope that you find a listener. No judgements, no advice just listen. That's all people want and need for the moment, to understand that they are with the group and not isolated. So when you meet someone and go on about all the Christmas nights out and party's you have attended, listen and understand that they may not have been on any this year, may not have been out and have no prospect of getting out, they are only smiling at you to stop themselves from hitting you.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Day 1095 of the Recession
Well some of my ardent Blog followers may be wondering why I have waited 1095 days to make another pithy commentary on the recession, well to be truthful I was hoping it would have been over by now.... not to be.
Instead Ireland are been held up as the whipping boys for Greece to behave and come on side......listen hear Papandreau if you don't cut your costs we'll do to you what we did to Ireland......no no please Madam Merkel anything but that.
So my friends how has the recession been for you, comforted to know that while you struggle to keep a job, the cost of all basics are going up, your mortgage has gone up if you were not on a tracker and your income has gone down.
We now have a plethora of additional tax's with more to come, additional tolling to be added to the M50.
Funny how when you look into the recession and see that NAMA could sell 3 London hotels for the outstanding loans plus interest, then why couldn't these have been left with the banks and everybody sit tight and within 1000 days off load the loans for face value, a bit of funding to keep the banks on day to day running and they may have been able to sort out there own balance sheets without costing the tax payer
Funny how there is talk of over supply of apartments in the city, 25,000 talked of, yet when you look into it there is only 4,500 apts for rent and a shortage of apts in some areas with strong rents holding up in all areas of the city.
If we had all set tight what might have been for a lot less money.
Instead Ireland are been held up as the whipping boys for Greece to behave and come on side......listen hear Papandreau if you don't cut your costs we'll do to you what we did to Ireland......no no please Madam Merkel anything but that.
So my friends how has the recession been for you, comforted to know that while you struggle to keep a job, the cost of all basics are going up, your mortgage has gone up if you were not on a tracker and your income has gone down.
We now have a plethora of additional tax's with more to come, additional tolling to be added to the M50.
Funny how when you look into the recession and see that NAMA could sell 3 London hotels for the outstanding loans plus interest, then why couldn't these have been left with the banks and everybody sit tight and within 1000 days off load the loans for face value, a bit of funding to keep the banks on day to day running and they may have been able to sort out there own balance sheets without costing the tax payer
Funny how there is talk of over supply of apartments in the city, 25,000 talked of, yet when you look into it there is only 4,500 apts for rent and a shortage of apts in some areas with strong rents holding up in all areas of the city.
If we had all set tight what might have been for a lot less money.
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