Irish continue to suffer amid economic crisis
Sunday, November 27th, 2011 at
7:57 pm
It has been a year since Ireland called for international support to bail out its banks. Since then, statistics appear to show the economy has stabilised, but the economic situation for people on the ground is very different. There are more than 2000 abandoned developments, known as ghost estates, as the country's housing boom was found to be built on sand. Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from central Ireland.
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Ireland: will kill each other over invisible deity
Will NOT do anything about corrupt bankers
Ireland has been through much worse than this....this is another bump in the road.
@drquinn89 you shouldn't be paying anything back. Your country got robbed you moron. When you get your wallet robbed the objective is not to sit there giving the robbers more money. buzz off sublick? whatever paddy!
@propjam2 your one ignorant fool,sorry when do people in Ireland kill each other in the streets? not heard of the good friday agreement? the peace process? a place called northern ireland?? actually Ireland is making the huge progress in trying to repay and control the public finances unlike Greece so why dont you rev up and buzz off sublick
...the prospect of that is not very enticing... like wtf? roundabout way of talking that politicos have.
@BentBuddha : ) uh, hu. In other countries when you have public housing, it just turns out to be vandalized over time anyhow. People don't respect property that they didn't purchase with their hard earned money. Usually the properties are condemned, bulldozed and then rebuilt at taxpayer expense.
Sad, sick cycle. It never ends up being a hand up, rather a hand out; generational welfare.
@rollerpodger I agree. What I am saying is you used to be people who stood for something (even if ifs not pc to say Protestants vs Catholics) You were people divided but fought for what you believed in even if you were suffering a great injustice. When the higher powers shat all over you I thought to myself 'this is it' your going to be out in the streets. but instead nothing. what happened? did your balls drop off?
The Irish were set up, just like most of the rest of the world. The Irish showed they had balls so they had to be brought down.....hard.
The US is big and powerful. It's taking quite a bit to destroy it. Wait until you see what happens when the NWO REALLY crashes the United States. That's when the fun begins.
Once the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights are officially burned to ash by the UN, the entire world is in for a nightmare never seen before.
In some sense or another, is there any country on the planet that is not
feeling the bankers/oligarch's transfer of wealth ponzy scheme?
jews own you Ireland..the rest on the way soon
@GtrDudeL
Thx Cartman.
@BentBuddha
Ok. It make sense. But how do low income families are supposed to feel about their 300k $ loans for the very same house they bought 2 years ago right on the other side of the street ?
Will they continue to pay it since the home value vanished forever with this "giving away homes" ?
Will they ask Gvrnmt to buy it the same price (as they are almost as poor as the people you talk about) ?
Will they just leave it and go default ? (most probable)
Situation will worsen.
Not simple.
@propjam2 there hasn't been much killing of Protestants and Catholics in Ireland in quite some time and before you start on about Ulster that in the UK NOT the Republic; your comment is ignorance personified and is equatable to saying every American is a warmonger tool who owns 15 guns so why haven't they overthrow their shitty government yet
@RandallSteen I was just about to say that Ireland and every other country out there needs to tell the IMF to go screw and reclaim their sovereignty; but then you already did that with your wonderfully succinct comment
@FedupwithR of course he'll make everything right again, just you watch! I mean after all, the skydaddy institution of penguins made millions for him in the woman's wash houses over the last 100 years. Skydaddy owes them big.
2,000 empty houses ey?... Anyone homeless need enough money for burglar tools and a bed?
@propjam2
Probably praying, calling on The Imaginary Skydaddy who; we all know answers prayers!
@propjam2 You understand very little then...
@eatenhamhawk or Ireland must fail
YOU KNOW WHAT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT IRELAND! if something stirs up between catholic and protestants there killing each other in the streets. But then the banks along with the government pull the carpet underneath everyone and no ones doing a god dam thing.
@BentBuddha What is wrong with you? You can't help people you have to pay off your debt to the elitist IMF. Get in line.
Ain't it a blooming shame? What did they learn from the real property bubble burst in Japan? What from the one in the U.S.? It was long enough before they started this tosh in Eire!
I sympathize with Ireland, they did and are doing the same to the U.S.