Marian Finucane. (Gilmore)

[dubrenter]

@Inis Man

@Homeboy

This is a side issue but I am no longer able to listen to Marian Finucane

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As previously posted she receives an obscene amount of money for 4 hours airtime per week, ie half a million per annum, plus at least 10 weeks holiday.

What else would you expect from a presenter who anagrams as Marian U Finance??

Not sure how much we could read into these ones, however:

Fun Canine Maria
Fair Aneamic Nun
Acne Mafia run-in
Maniac Urine Fan

Or in Eamonn Gilmore’s case:

Genial moron, me
Gonna lie re. Mom
Mr. Gaol Nominee
I log on, Mr. Enema

Just trying to cheer people up.

Come on it’s only the IMF! Latvia, Hungary, Romania, now us, what’s the big deal?

[Sammy]

As a nation we need to ensure that we can maintain building skills. I don’t agree with everything Gilmore says … but I am much happier with the idea of borrowing money to build NEEDED infrastructure instead of borrowing money to bail out bondholders (who gambled and lost). As highlighted by other posters this will benefit the people.

[Puck_may_be_Famous]

@Sammy

As a nation we need to ensure that we can maintain building skills. I don’t agree with everything Gilmore says … but I am much happier with the idea of borrowing money to build NEEDED infrastructure instead of borrowing money to bail out bondholders (who gambled and lost). As highlighted by other posters this will benefit the people.

How about we don’t borrow at all and live within our means?

Then we don’t have to worry about bond markets

[Egg_Beater]

Gilmore on The Panel, 5:20 onwards is interesting. Looks like it’s more of the same in our future with this guy.
youtube.com/watch?v=Br7LNKInYGw

[BlameGame]

@What Goes Up...

Build. Build Build.

Pyramids. Pyramids. Pyramids.

Seriously?

Can we do nothing more than think of ourselves as nothing more than pygmy Egyptians.

Pygmy Egyptians. Brilliant! Made me laugh.

Maybe were more like the Easter Islanders with their statues.
In thousands of years the Aliens will come and look at our dead planet.
‘Why did this civilization decide to build 1 bedroom apartment complexes in the middle of nowhere?
Maybe they had some form of Hotel Deity that’s why they built so many empty ones?’

[Rick_Flair]

@Barney Gumble

@Sammy

As a nation we need to ensure that we can maintain building skills.

Why? If we need any building in future, we can get it done by reasonably priced people from abroad, instead of being gouged by the locals. Maintaining building skills is really, really low on our current list of requirements right now anyway - we probably have enough homes to last us 100 years.

Some of those locals have mouths to feed, and besides there is plenty of room in Ireland for high quality infrastructure projects. Seen the state of some of our schools recently?

How to finance it is another matter but the idea of putting the structurally unemployed back to work with borrowed money sounds a damn sight better than borrowing money to pay off bondholders in Anglo.

[yoganmahew]

@Rick Flair

Some of those locals have mouths to feed, and besides there is plenty of room in Ireland for high quality infrastructure projects. Seen the state of some of our schools recently?

How to finance it is another matter but the idea of putting the structurally unemployed back to work with borrowed money sounds a damn sight better than borrowing money to pay off bondholders in Anglo.

Yeah, aside from the usual health/education build, there’s also water and sewage to consider. Given that water charges will be introduced at some stage, borrowing on the back of the expected revenues for water infrastructure could provide cheaper financing than would otherwise be the case. I’d like, though, to see water services largely taken away from the councils to a national or a number of regional companies. Not because they will be nationalised, but because they could be when ‘we’ fuck up again and again it would provide a more credible borrowing entity, hopefully cheapening finance.