We are in a recession relative to the way we have lived for the last while. Yes, some people were reckless, some people weren't but this is a recession nonetheless, past difficulties doesn't make it any less so for the people living in it now.
Just looked at my wife's payslips over the past few years and took a mid year date in each. She works in the Public Service in junior management. Her take home pay now is less than she had in 2006 and a 0.75c per week more than in 2005. There have been no changes in deductions (just to keep matters straight) . . .
J RTE television opened at 5.30pm and closed service at 11.30pm. .
Yes, and since 2006 a lot of public servants have bought houses on mortgages based on their existing salary and pay scale at the time..Those salaries were set in stone at the time, as public service salaries usually were. So people who took on a mortgage on the basis of a secure salary and a guaranteed pay scale, and who assumed they were making an informed decision, are really struggling now.
I hear what you are saying ,however,
who got those public servants to believe this?
Who got them to a place where they had salaries "set in stone"
Who got them to a position where they had a guaranteed pay scale and a secure salary?
This should never have happened..those who led them into this position and those who allowed it to happen,are at fault.
That would be the unions and the government...
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