They were in their 50's and 60's 10-15 years ago when the boom happened. They retired around the time it crashed.What are the generations being compared here (or is this just a private spat) ?
Born in 1950s vs born in 1970s ? Retired vs still in paid employment ?
It's a curious dichotomy. Most of the roles referred to were being fulfilled by men in their 50s whereas David Drumm was in his early 40s. Are they all the same generation ?
How could you be winding things up you are going to be left holding the baby long term and no money put aside for your generation and the next generation will leave rather than pay high taxes to sopport the generation who knew the price of everything and the value of nothing,They were in their 50's and 60's 10-15 years ago when the boom happened. They retired around the time it crashed.
I suppose it's about the narrative that somehow "young people" have it easy, that "Millennials" are soft. They face into a far more uncertain world because my generation (in their 40's) and my parents generation (in their 70's) made such a mess of things from the early 90's until 2008 and still won't take responsibility for their actions. The people now in their 70's were in charge of most things during the boom. They squandered the money that was washing into the country. They increased welfare and pay and reduced taxes instead of building a world class transport, Broadband and public sector infrastructure. They speculated and sucked money out of wealth creating areas of the economy (internationally traded goods and services) and pumped it into non-wealth creating sectors like construction and the public sector. They were the people in power. They were our leaders. And they failed the Nation.
The generation behind me may never own a home, won't get a decent State pension, will work well into their 70's and will be crippled by our debt and our pensions but they are the generation which rejected represson, homophobia and racism. They are more positive and more hopeful, less corrupt and more civic minded. They are quite possibly our greatest generation.
... and yes, maybe I'm winding things up a bit too (but it is such fun!).
my generation (in their 40's) and my parents generation (in their 70's) made such a mess of things from the early 90's until 2008 and still won't take responsibility for their actions. The people now in their 70's were in charge of most things during the boom. They squandered the money that was washing into the country. They increased welfare and pay and reduced taxes instead of building a world class transport, Broadband and public sector infrastructure.
Being down to the Galway races and will be for the rest of this week ,The free train/Bus pass comes in handy,This post will be deleted if not edited immediately lads will ye move on it's over no need to try and blame anyone we all played our part in it, standereds were lowered but the helicopters are back over Galway this week and I am delighted
Now we could not have the best Generation ever footing the bill for looking after there own children , How could that be right and we just after baling out the generation before them,Ya grandparents should be paid but not by the state
looks like they helicopters are not going to return back over Dublin , People who can afford them don't need them because they have a free train/bus /luas/dart pass ,This post will be deleted if not edited immediately lads will ye move on it's over no need to try and blame anyone we all played our part in it, standereds were lowered but the helicopters are back over Galway this week and I am delighted
They all 'mind' the child for 10 hours a week. That's €7000 a year for the one child. Meanwhile, revenue/social protection will have to spend millions trying to verify valid claims. It is complete stupidity.
Ross and the other politicians will be meeting them at the airport and sharing in their achievements
Shane Ross as Minister of Sport came up with this idea in the same week that Ireland's womens hockey team made a world cup semi final. Those women PAY for the privilege of play for Ireland. They have to crowdfund to raise money to participate. They had to take time off work and make huge personal sacrifices to achieve this. Ross and the other politicians will be meeting them at the airport and sharing in their achievements but he should be too embarrassed to show his face. To suggest something like a Granny grant when he can't even fund his own department properly shows what an incompetent, self serving politician he really is. He is what I would imagine would be created if Bertie Ahern, Eamonn Dunphy and George Hook had a genetically created love child.
I am really surprised at the people who got taken in by the fake news I suspect the often wonder why no one ever pays any notice to there views . formed while the have there blinkers on,
Do you know the quacking duck always gets shot, Your Pension I am sure was well earned the quacking ducks will get plucked again and again ,no need to worry while we have quacking ducks things will be fine,. . . . . and there I was, hoping that my Rolls Royce Pension (according to some posters here) would be augmented by €1000.00 per annum.
I am really surprised at the people who got taken in by the fake news I suspect the often wonder why no one ever pays any notice to there views . formed while the have there blinkers on,
Do you know the quacking duck always gets shot, the quacking ducks will get plucked again and again ,no need to worry while we have quacking ducks things will be fine,
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