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The plan...

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  • 13-07-2009 11:33am
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    Gurgle
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    (Mods, feel free to move to CT)

    Looking at all that our glorious leaders have done over the last year, I think I've figured out 'The Plan'.

    Its really very simple, and could see us through this recession. Its also going to hurt a lot of us, but at the same time protect all the main shareholders in Fianna Fail.

    The main objective is: One-income familes.

    Not through redundancies or more job losses, but to set the stage so that all (or a large proportion of) the 2-income families in the country sit down and go through their finances with the inevitible conclusion that one of them (modern times, either one) quits their job and stays home to mind the kids.

    First: Why?
    Because the partner who quits their job will not be entitled to any social welfare, jobseekers benefit, redundancy, tax breaks etc. etc.
    A job opens up, taking someone off the live register without someone else joining the register. There are roughly 1.8 million people working now, a reduction of ~200k in the last year or so, but still as many as ~2003/2004 when the old tiger was in its prime. In other words, there are plenty of jobs here - just the wrong people have them.

    Second: How?
    Simple, by stacking the cards. Make it more expensive to go to work than not to. Did we ever get a tax break on childcare? Nope. Transport? Nope. Petrol, the commuter's blood has been bumped up by 8%. BIK has wiped out the value of corporate health insurance and company cars.

    Then theres the people who own Fianna Fail:

    Construction companies: All the major infrastructure projects are still going ahead, while everything from education to health is being crippled. Not only that, but I've heard of no moves to re-negotiate the contracts. These deals were done at the height of the boom, when all these contstruction companies were operating at profit margins of 70-80%. We've seen what this did to house prices, the M50 is mile-for-mile the most expensive road ever built. And now, with these companies depending for their very survival on government contracts, they still get their margins.

    Business 'partners': Remember when all that money went into providing childcare? And somehow got 'diverted' into providing grants to build creches (rather than into parents' PAYE allowances), we can't leave them out in the cold but there won't be such a demand for creches with one-income families....

    Make them into preschools.

    But who's going to pay for a preschool when they've had to give up their second income and stay at home?

    Erm... everybody, straight out of our PAYE :(


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