Poll: 61% of Irish think worst is yet to come for economy

January 23rd, 2010 by stacyherbert

Stacy Summary:  What would you answer?  (To put this into context, the Irish economy contracted by 7.6% last year, so that people feel it will get even worse is pretty gloomy).  And to @Danny, @david and @Dork, why is it that majority of Fianna Fáil would think worst is over?

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  • The DORK OF CORK
    Jan 24, 2010 at 5:53 am

    @Marc Authier
    You can live in a tent in Ireland sleep under a oak tree and go to the beech but but but I would not recommend that lifestye in this climate

  • eileen
    Jan 24, 2010 at 8:05 am

    Fianna Fail Fiana Gael another example of what Max calls duocracy. One and the same jumping tp the demands of the ECB – since we joined the euro all we can do is tweak the edges of fiscal policy – wakey wakey lads little old ireland has no say in it’s destiny no matter who you vote for……….

  • TSGordon
    Jan 24, 2010 at 9:00 am

    @Dublin/ Good call! ..Let’s hear it for the Irish! If you want to cite a comparable financial-cycle, just look at Memphis, Tenn. One company, FedX, controls the entire labor market. Where the upwardly mobile have long since fled the city for overpriced gated communities, with their all-brick, (actually insulated) homes and Steppford-like community centers–a home for no one and a lifestyle of isolation…

    Some remember a few years back when the Irish enjoyed the influx of American computer ‘outsourcing.’ This phase was not unlike the post-NAFTA controls we put on Mexico’s commercial-cycle. Ultimately you’ll have to follow Argentina–hide your middle-class assets, take the bloody IMF bail-out, and later, offer the Brits a well-publicized one-finger salute!

  • TSGordon
    Jan 24, 2010 at 9:11 am

    Doubtless, the PTB have new reason to fear the voices of the disgruntled masses. Imagine ‘we the people’ actully demanding an audited ‘graduated’-tax system, whereby the ultra-rich and especially the Royals would pay back what they stole and subsequently be dethroned.

    For example, eventually COSTCO will out perform WalMart, and its goodbye to American supremacy / stock-values.

  • The DORK OF CORK
    Jan 24, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    Sure Eileen leinster house is a high paid county council but countries in collapse mode can do very unpredictable things and things can change very fast
    However I am not holding my breath
    Mary in the Phoenix park will give some soothing words covered in empathy for mankind and us poor Irish being chastened by our hubris
    That stupid bitch is not going to do a Icelanic on us I am afraid
    ALL TOGETHER NOW
    Trichet is our master
    Trichet is our master
    ECB owns our ass and us Leprachauns have no gold under the rainbow
    Trichet is our master

    Still I have faith in the 2 Brians to get us out of this mess……..

  • Marc Authier
    Jan 25, 2010 at 2:54 am

    @Dork
    I think there are still a couple of guillotines in functionning order in France. Trichet is not your master. Break the spell. Break the spell and rise up !

  • Marc Authier
    Jan 25, 2010 at 3:56 am

    @Dork of the Cork

    As I recall Ireland tried mostly to imitate the British “miracle”. Soo too thiss Iceland. Irish monkey see, Irish monkey do. Iceland monkey see British do, Iceland monkey see do.

    Don’t worry. We have our dirty little neo-con monkey see UK, monkey do too. It’s probably the oil, the gas, the hydro-electricity, the gold and metals that saved us.

    Your 2 Brians don’t have oil to sell. I wonder Dork of the Cork. With what are you going to pay ? Blood sweath and a lot of tears ? I am sure of that. Hélas.

  • The DORK OF CORK
    Jan 25, 2010 at 4:41 am

    @Marc Authier
    Would anybody be willing to pay for some Irish Blarney?
    I think we have even lost the skill of bullshitting now

    The Pagan inside tells me we should never had run that motorway through Tara
    We stopped some Jewish lads digging the place up looking for the ark of the covenant but 100 years later we pour concrete all over the gaff
    We will have to make a sacrifice to the Gods in order to appease them
    Bertie Ahern and Bono come to mind but if that does not work we have a long list of evil doers……………………..

  • Marc Authier
    Jan 25, 2010 at 5:42 am

    Bono will soon have the occasion to ask the IMF to erase Ireland’s debt. Bono does not pay his taxes in Ireland by the way. He doesn’t pas his taxe in Afriqua neither. Always the same freakin pirate drug pushers place the Netherlands. Hey Bono ? Are the drugs good in Amsterdan ?

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