Lets find a few billion

[idij]

@The Unwelcome Guest

@September

Save on cost of having junior&senior infant classes and improve quality of children life and their prospects.

Are you suggesting culling children?

I would guess raising the school age to 7 or 8 rather than an actual cull.
Though you can never be sure in these depressionary times. Tough situations call for tough measures and all that

On the plus side, it might improve our failing literacy levels.

[slasher]

@idij

@The Unwelcome Guest

Are you suggesting culling children?

I would guess raising the school age to 7 or 8 rather than an actual cull.
Though you can never be sure in these depressionary times. Tough situations call for tough measures and all that

On the plus side, it might improve our failing literacy levels.

“A Modest Proposal,”

Most people know Swift as the author of “Gulliver’s Travels.” But recent events have me thinking of his 1729 essay “A Modest Proposal,” in which he observed the dire poverty of the Irish, and offered a solution: sell the children as food. “I grant this food will be somewhat dear,” he admitted, but this would make it “very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.”

nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opini … .html?_r=2

[Open_Window]

You won’t find the solution in playing their game. Did you write the rules?

[Blue_Horseshoe]

Close all State health provision and social welfare.

€35bn saved.

budget.gov.ie/budgets/2011/D … 202011.pdf

Start from scratch, spend no more than a combined €15bn on the reconstructed services.

Accept that people will suffer and die and there will be public protest and disquiet.

Other than that you’re deluding yourself with “fell good about skinning a fat cat or two” while only saving a few 10’s at best 100’s of millions.

Blue Horseshoe

[fishfoodie]

If we reduce the number of TDs down to 100 we have to pay 66 of them ‘disappointment’ severance of €300k, which will cost us ~€20M

A nice new Glock pistol will cost €800 & 100x 9mm rounds will cost €26

Bit like this really …

[HAZE]

When the East-West interconnector between the Irish and UK national energy grids is completed, and when \ if the Dublin waste incinerator is built and online, then we can export thousands of MW of energy. I can think of many sources of fuel for the waste incineration plant, starting in Dail Eireann….

[ewd3]

@Blue Horseshoe

Close all State health provision and social welfare.

€35bn saved.

budget.gov.ie/budgets/2011/D … 202011.pdf

Start from scratch, spend no more than a combined €15bn on the reconstructed services.

Accept that people will suffer and die and there will be public protest and disquiet.

Other than that you’re deluding yourself with “fell good about skinning a fat cat or two” while only saving a few 10’s at best 100’s of millions.

Blue Horseshoe

And when you think that Anglo cost us 40 billion
That’s the magnitude of the treason perpetrated by including Anglo

[ps200306]

@yoganmahew

You can add in TDs voting their absent members onsite when snow prevented them from turning up. This meant they could claim the allowances for, er, turning up. Even though they didn’t… same thing with volcanic ash when a number (from all parties) were stranded.

Does this really happen??? I mean, it’s bad enough having to pay them to turn up, but they now get paid if they INTENDED to turn up??? The theologians claim that only God can turn his intentions into actual stuff… someone needs to tell them about the members of Dáil Éireann.

[yoganmahew]

@ps200306

@yoganmahew

You can add in TDs voting their absent members onsite when snow prevented them from turning up. This meant they could claim the allowances for, er, turning up. Even though they didn’t… same thing with volcanic ash when a number (from all parties) were stranded.

Does this really happen??? I mean, it’s bad enough having to pay them to turn up, but they now get paid if they INTENDED to turn up??? The theologians claim that only God can turn his intentions into actual stuff… someone needs to tell them about the members of Dáil Éireann.

Oh yes. This did indeed happen just last week. I doubt there was even a full vote on it, it would have been by acclamation (save the embarrassment of anyone having to put their name to it).