Your talking the truth and it f@@king hurts

Best of luck Paul….

Well said Paul! Just listened to that you tube link, very, very powerful ballad. I have tears in my eyes thinking of my own family. The truth hurts us all, good luck to you and your family

Paul your story is a tough one. One our govt doesn’t want to understand. They are worse now than the thieves who destroyed this country. Threatening the revenue on regular folks who don’t have it. Meanwhile not one banker or politician is in jail for the treason that was committed here for enslaving our country to debt. It appears to me your better of in this country when u owe millions. Does the govt grasp its citizens has had enough!!!!

Really struggle to see how FF are topping the polls, the party should really be in ruins. If they were a company they’d be gone to wall long ago.

@ Jason..quiet simply because we don’t have any choice politically in this country. FG/Lab got in the last time just because we were shit sick of Cowen, Linehan, Dempsy and the rest of them. Look at the way they ran to the hills prior to the last election when there was changes to their pensions ? Until we have a huge mind shift in the way we deal with our politicians and how they deal with us..we’re stuck with the two ring circus.

I hope your new life is working out for you Paul, we all feel your sentiments. Will anything change. Not at all. Those blood sucking lying, treasonous, a holes will continue to plunder what little we have left and have the audacity of covering it up by calling it a progressive tax that will benefit all. Of course all is actually a metaphor for Troika. I pray for Ireland to find its fighting spirit and rise up against this Vichy impersonators.

Well said Paul. I’m sorry you were forced to leave Ireland. I’m on the fence at this point too as most of my family friends have already left Ireland. It’s very sad especially when we have to leave behind elderly parents who will suffer loneliness as a result. Our politicians will never feel this. Their families will just move away as a ‘Lifestyle choice!’
Best of luck Paul.

Best of luck Paul, many people will feel your sadness. Great song you shared, best ballad I have heard in a long time and very true words, song for the ordinary man and woman. I don’t understand why FF are topping the polls either, hard to believe, same old story

We need to reduce government involvement in Irish life, for it is the only solution.

They will never care

Possibly the best comment I have ever seen on this site.

So sad, your words and that song you posted had quite an effect on me Paul and I’m usually a tough cookie. Good luck to you and your family, I hope everything will work out for you

Then Do Something About It people!!! Stand together.

Thanks Paul, they are the words that most of us want to say! Hope things work out for you!

Very good post and a powerful song. Best of luck Paul

Direct Democracy Ireland in Meath East.. First nail in the coffin for the status quo
Lets show them. All for one and one for all.

The global economy is in tatters.

We are a tiny bankrupt island struggling through it, while still spending more money every year than we take in in taxes.

If you are waiting around for a government to save you, you better move country to somewhere with a bigger public sector and higher dole. Let me know where that is when you find it.

Well said Paul I wish you the very best of luck

So true Paul, I want out of this country but I have huge negative equity wrapped around my neck. I don’t live anymore, I exist it’s all about paying the bills and nothing else. I hope u and ur family get the better life u deserve, any family I know who emigrated has no regrets, hopefully one day my family and I will get out of this prison!

Best of luck to you and your family.
I to an not a member of any political
Party and voted Fine Gael & Labour last election foolish me .The people of Ireland need major change to the system bankers,top civil servants politicians .All have failed.
We have to ask the people of Meath to
Send a clear message in the forthcoming by-election
VOTE anyone but Fianna Fáil, Fianna Geal and Labour.
These party’s have destroyed this country (don’t forget PD’S and Greens)

U a hole. The people don’t want the government saving them wi hand outs and sole. They want the illegal bankers debts taken of their backs. They want the fat cats properly and fairly taxed. They want the government gravy train derailed. And they want to be listened to not spoken down to like 5 yr old kids.

That should be on the front page of every national news paper! This country is miserable and run by a dictatorship. That kenny constantly with a smug smile, he can’t even pretend to be compassionate! I hope we can get them out soon. And get someone with a spine in there.

Don’t vote for parties who support a property tax. Vote for parties who will repeal it .

The people of Meath East have a chance to put the first nail into the property tax coffin. Ask Helen Mc Entee and Thomas Byrne if they support the property tax and will they repeal it.

We already had a form of property tax in the form of high stamp duty rates that was very unfair. An annual charge is a much fairer system. Reform in this area was long overdue.

Con
The only thing that Sinn Fein and their fellow travelers offer the people of Meath is cheap laundered diesel that destroys our engines and the fear of reprisals if we open our mouths to criticise them. Uneducated thugs for the most. I could just see a Government led by them with a flight of capital and mass reduction of foreign direct investment.

Peter Daly. I never mentioned Sinn Fein or their fellow “travelers” for that matter. I just put a very simple question to Helen Mc Entee and Thomas Byrne.

Correct up to a point, Reg. the people who paid high amounts of stamp duty in the past 10 years on family homes should be exempt for a period of time. Then it would be more fair.

Terry, those that purchased at the peak (and have mortgages) are in receipt of enhanced mortgage interest relief for the next few years. While this does not compensate them for the extortionate rates of stamp duty that they paid it is of some help.

Mr. Turner,

Property tax should be abolished for everyone. We should be cutting spending instead of introducing new taxes.

ronan , there are some [sma llfirm] employers who top up the allowance to 100% of salary.

@ Ronan Palliser, I’m afraid you are misinformed about maternity benefit and the public sector. While we do get a wage aswell as maternity benefit ..this is our basic wage, it does not include many of the payments we currently receive for weekend work, bank holiday work ect. The payments we rely on to live. As a result this new tax will also affect women in the public sector. As usual the middle income earners targeted again. So sick of this country.

Very unconvincing performance from Frances Fitzgerald on Newstalk, the usual waffle about “inheriting” the situation, blah, blah, blah… Admit it Frances -it’s yet another cut, another anti-women, anti family measure. The token woman Minister fails to stand up for women.

But u don’t take a cut to your wages you still get full wages try surviving on the sw maternity benefit alone.

No party will ever repeal it. Because the Troika and he real Government (The Senior Civil Servants) are running the show my friends.

Rubbish.

+1 hit the streets in force.

Pity we can’t all escape for paddy’s day….like Gilmore can ! Anyone know where he’s off to for this annual politicians junket?

Any Clown would be better than the Clowns we have now.

Should Beppe Grillo run candidates in the next Irish Election?

http://www.beppegrillo.it/en/

We can march in the St Patrick’s day parades around the country to oppose the property and water taxes.

Good idea …turn every parade into a protest march …let’s start making the banners !!!

Very good idea.

You should all dress as snakes with Gilmore,kenny etc heads then a placard saying lets get the snakes out of ireland !

They are not clueless – they are doing fine , obeying their masters etc . It is the people who are in a way ” clueless ” – in that the thugs who rob us walk the streets – and make new taxes and more new taxes . We are only stuck with a two ringed circus – if that is waht we want .
In short we are ” compliant ” – waht a dreaful word – reeks of Obedience .
Do u really think that Kenny , Gilmore and co – give two f##ks waht or how the St Patricks day marches go – they will be in USA etc
.Also they cant lose – throwing them out at an election – and they still are ok finacilally .
Look at what Italy did – a party came from nowhere to take 25% of vote .
if we dont pay the debts – that are not ours – no matter waht bits of paper have been signed – what will Troika do – they dont want the € to go or anyone to l theraten to bring down the €zone .
Its a poker game – and we have bad poker players that should be got rid of asap .

Don’t send it back, it gives them a reason to look into u more just phuck it in the fire!

I hope he was reminded that people in the north actually receive some services for the property tax. Bin collection for example.

Exactly

Rodrigo, they get bin collection, water rates, free school dinners for students, FREE GP services (we pay 50 euro a go), free/almost free prescriptions, truly free school up to secondary level… the list goes on…
We get a household charge, we will now pay separate water rates, pay for GP visits, our so-called free education costs each parent a couple of hundred euro per year. We pay 15 times the prescription charges for many of the drugs we need to keep us healthy…
Enda will deflect and distract, rather than address the question honestly.

I think Enda best summed it up when he was asked to look at reducing our presidents salary to less than 200k…. Endas response was that the President needed the salary in order to feed himself and that we should leave it well enough alone (i admit i am paraphrasing, but he did use the comment, the president needs to eat as part of his response).

Thats Multi-Millionare-Eamon-The 500k Field- Gilmore to you Brian!!

If you work in this country then you are constantly screwed. The constantly impose more tax, while they draw massive Salaries and guaranteed pensions which you just cannot buy as a private sector worker.

Labour and Fine Gael are done for me along with ff

Your talking trough your ASS! You try make it sound like people on welfare are as well of as politicians!

First of all. Pigs eat out of a trough. I’m not talking THROUGH my ass. I’m using social media to voice my opinion. People on benefits are better off than me that you can’t dispute because you know nothing about me and what i earn. Social welfare allowances information is freely available to study online. When you work it all out on social welfare I would be better off. As for politicians, of course they are more well off. They earn too much yes, but they are also for the most part (Healy Rae’s aside) mostly well educated and hard working. Should their salaries be cut in line with other countries? Absolutely. Should I have to pay hugely for social welfare recipients children’s buggies, garish holy communion outfits, back to school allowance, free doctors fees? No.Really the question here is inequality. Why should my child not get those benefits too? Why am I paying for these things? Why is there €50 million euro kept aside by Joan Burton’s department to pay for these social welfare top ups? And why are they cutting my allowance when I never claim social welfare apart from the months I take off to have a child? I work I pay my taxes. I contribute to society and the economy.

And?

Hear hear !!

Well said Deborah

No it’s not your exact wage. Maybe it is for you. I got about 230 per week that’s about €1000 less per month than I normally earn. I got about €1200 back after I returned to work. So exactly how was I better off or how is this the same as if I was working. If you earn a low basic salary and depend on shift pay to make up your salary or if you depend in commission in a sales position then you could find yourself very out of pocket having a child. Or maybe we just shouldn’t have families. Maybe we should leave it to the more well off or the civil servants on their tipped up salaries or those on benefits getting handouts for each child.

Have you a Vendetta against people on Social Welfare? Why don’t you out line all the benefits that go with been a member of the Irish Parliament? You can count your self very lucky that you have a job to go to! Some people want their bread buttered on both sides!!!

I don’t have a vendetta. But I am entitled to my opinion, after all I am a taxpayer. For all I know I could end up on social welfare myself. But i know that i would absolutely do my level best to get any job i could and stop taking money that i hadnt earned. I do have a problem with people who are on social welfare when they don’t need to be. Now it might take a year or 2 to get a job but there are jobs out there. If you’re going to end up earning the same or less than on social welfare… So what? Get up off your ass and work. You’re not entitled to sit around at your leisure and expect society to pay for it. Apart from the fact of what does that do to your head? Sitting around idle is not good for anyone, even if they were made to help out in their local community that at least it would be beneficial for their community and their own mindset. Its just shameful and anyone one doing it has no right to have any opinion on politicians or anything else to do with our society for that matter. When they start paying taxes again maybe then they can raise their head and voice an opinion. Til then go back to your TROUGH.

Its nothing to do with a vendetta Im just as pissed off about politicians benefits as i am about some sw benefits its people who work yet again are been screwed

Talking trough your backside (again) are you suggestion that people whom lost their jobs have no place in society because they are on the welfare? Word of advise: “give your job to some one else and you go on the dole, have a big huge family and get all the fruits of the welfare you are mouthing about others getting! Then you will mouth of about the People working! Form a vendetta against them maybe!” ( discussion over and out!)

Deborah keep popping out babies so you can get paid for doing nothing.

Im beginning to think that some people who read articles on the journal can’t actually read.I said SOME people on sw and by the way that includes my partner but he gets his jobseekers and that’s it because i work and obviously my wages are so ridiculously high that were not entitled to any other help….. Meanwhile the same people get everything handed to them on a plate and have never contributed in any way shape or form. Seeing as your making presumptions about me ill make one about u ur probably one of the ones who gets things handed right left and centre to them and doesn’t like when people criticise them.