Corks finest
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Seriously I doSeriously.... Do you actually believe all of what you just wrote. You actually think if we vote in somone different then we will be better off. You are assuming that government actually controls the country, that say minister of health controls the hospital. When the next crowd come in they will change everything....ha...
Do you not realise that there is a group of civil servants who control the country, well they at least control the public part of the economy. Do you think they will bow down to sinn fein.....
Rest of the country mostly made up of private sector workers and employers go out and work hard every day and create wealth. This is what brought the country back from the last recession.
ELections are irrelevent. THey are just a vote without consequences. In fact its just another form of irish entertainment like GAA or rugby. Prize is we get in the news and talk on discussion panels. But thats it...
Changes are imminent
Our HSE is full of managers who mismanage both their staff and patients
One of the biggest budgets in the EU
And also up amongst the top earners
Meanwhile it’s claim after claim after claim on a bear weekly basis at this stage ,
And when the covid tribunals etc start because of them the country will be at breaking point
Housing- a complete farce for
over 35 years
Galway tent backhanders etc etc etc
Special needs places a fuckin lottery
Schools at breaking point
Biggest class sizes in Europe
Inflation through the roof
Competition authority toothless
F all places for most addicts and alcoholics who want/ need help
List goes on and on
All fine by pricks in FF/FG over the generations and the gobshites who voted them in
PDs/ Labour and now the clownish Greens catered for by governments who needed their paltry votes to keep change from happening
Stuff your Neanderthal FF/FG politics
Time for immediate change
Your FFFG clowns gave destroyed tbe country with their cosy cosy monopoly
Thankfully it’s nearing its long awaited end
Without covid this sham government woulwrr
we are mismanagedHey, let me try
Pink bar is how good is the country in generating profit/earning/producing per person, simply how country in general is getting on when then divided by citizens. Bigger the bar, country is more profitable per person living in that country meaning - this in theory is how good the live is there, how much you can afford for the money you earned. (this is not perfect, better for it would be purchasing power index, but for this here is good enough).
Blue bar is how much can citizen afford to buy from the profit they generated from their work. Bigger the bar, you are wealthier.
If blue is bigger than pink, this means country (society) is living on loans, they consume more than produce. This is OK if not big difference, it is problematic if the gap is huge meaning people spend more than they earn.
If pink is bigger than blue, then it means that from all the wealth people produced only portion of it stays in their pockets making their lives better in general - you can afford more, you can live on the higher level.
From the above graph we can read, that Ireland despite generating enormous profit (pink bar) due to tax and general politics of the country mostly makes this wealth to go away (transferred out). This is not bad, as Ireland's economy well... lets say it is not Germany but more Luxembourg due to corpos here. However, comparing to Luxemburg (the wealthiest country) Ireland does not give earned money to the people to spend what they worked for (or reduce cost of spending using politics to eg. lower costs of living, fuel etc. simply they use political tools to move that pink bar to increase the blue bar, even simple thing like free medical service, better infrastructure paid for from the pink portion). It the blue bar tells you how wealthy the people are, how much they can afford to spend (not how much country earned/produced) and in that category we are behind for example... Lithuania. That blue bar gives you some of idea on standard of living in the country. The pink bar is showing how country is getting on.
Ergo, Ireland should have a better quality of life than Denmark but because of government (laws, taxes, rules) we are behind Lithuania.
Standard of living is not only the money you can spend but also availability of the services and access to them. That is why when this is taken into account (not exactly shown on the graph here) Ireland is below EU average despite having second largest earnings.
I am not sure if I managed
Always have been
Hopefully our young will vote for change or else the cream will emigrate again