Posts Tagged ‘recession’
Been a while…
...since I had a good rant about insurance companies. Well, it's a new year and there are two advertisements that are really getting on my nerves at the moment. The first is a radio advert by AXA who claim to be your "local" insurance company. Drop in and get your amazingly cheap policy with no fuss. Well AXA are far from your "local" insurance company so don't let that fool you into supporting your own. In fact unless you live in Dublin or Derry you won't be talking to somebody in the same county as you when you call them. On top of that, the great savings on offer, well I still haven't [...]
Scrap the Dublin Metro Project!
Join the Facebook group. Despite Ireland being in recession and despite an emergency, early budget to try to deal with the crisis, and despite a projected shortfall in taxes of €7.5 billion the government of Ireland still sees fit to proceed with a €4 billion plan to develop a small metro system in Dublin. This proposed budget, which will no doubt be inflated as time goes on given government failures with previous capital projects, is equal to over half of the tax shortfall and would put the country in a far better position financially if it was not spent developing a metro line only [...]
I’m Dreaming of a Tight Christmas…
I'm dreaming of a tight Christmas, Just like the one in '84. When the minister's gone fishin' and people start wishin' To the sound of an economy gone below. I'm dreaming of a tight Christmas, With every pathetic government slight. You may take a ferry, or flight, And leave Ireland long out of sight. I'm dreaming of a tight Christmas, A Christmas when the future's shyte. They get a raise and you get plight, And may all your votes next year be spite. Merry Recession everybody!
