In fairness Tommy Tiernan would source a laugh from anything. He said this a few years ago in a Late Late interview where if a tsunami or earthquake hit some island causing death, destruction and poverty it was only a matter of a few days when he'd receive a text with a joking spin on what happened.
Having struggled in the days where one's wife had to give up paid work on marriage, fighting our way through a mortgage interest rate of 19.75%, surviving real recessions (not doddles like the last recession) . I am not a stranger to being in need. There is nothing romantic about living in penury. Unlike the song I do look back in anger. I have dealt with our bank asking for an extension of 5 years on a 20 year mortgage and the fastest letter ever letter of reply came two days later informing me of my commitment to paying back €9K (big at the time) over no more than 20 years. That letter shoved me into poverty where literally we hadn't a button for years; locked the car in the garage, cycled for a few years, no holidays, scraped to pay electricity bills on a weekly basis, bought food that nobody else would. A visit to the doctor was out of the question. Romanticism my This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language.
There are times when I get emotional on what we soldiered through. You may ask "Did it leave a bitter pill?" You bet your bottom dollar it did. And I as a taxpayer was one who bailed out the bloody banks after they had spectacularly screwed up. I'm getting emotional again so I'll shut up before I say something that will have this post deleted.
The small town Men/woman who sailed through the last recession will be on to remind you bailed out the deposit holders not the banks.
Some almost as old as you sailed through the real recession never seen any recession in there life time but want one for people not so lucky in life,
Lep said I'll shut up before I say something that will have this post deleted where did you say you lived now ,
lots of people seen poverty who worked lots of people on social welfare who lost jobs after they changed the way Prsi was paid out after 1984/85 seen poverty and still do to this day most workers who got into trouble on mortgages in the last recession would not have got into trouble if the left the pay related social insurance system alone in1984/5 ,
The people Who pushed through the changes back then were people who were not going to be affected by it I remember one very well off Right Wing TD/Minister saying the reason they wanted it changed was because she reckoned it was open to abuse , The only abuse of the system since is the took working people PRSI and squandered it,
The good thing is most are now paying extra tax and will for the rest of there lives,
Lep Your above post is very well put but only the people affected by recessions remember ,
I can say it did not leave a bitter pill I suppose seeing the people who wanted it that way now having to pay for it long term helps ,
Some people lost there life others lost there health more lost there homes because of changes made back then by people who were never going be affected by the changes,