How to clear our national debt FAST!

Misanthrope

The best way to deal with the debt is start copying Switzerland.

Stashing gold, yodeling,skiing to cowbells,staying out of fights,finishing schools for ladies,colleges for American draftdodgers and a feather in your hat.That's how the Swiss roll,with or without puns.I reckon they must have the rosiest history of any Europeeon country.

Lets compare

Britain : 1AD -1100 AD : War,death, pestilence,starvation,disease and chasmic ignorance.
1100 - 1150 : Cricket and tea afterwards in the pavilion
1150 - 2010 : War,death,rape,world cup 66,more war,plenty more ignorance, child labour,incest,Posh Spice

Switzerland :1AD -2010 AD: Rich


You see the facts don't lie.

We need to basically legalise everything and anything that can make foreigners come here and give us their dough.

Capt'n Midnight

Misanthrope wrote: »

Lets compare

Britain : 1AD -1100 AD : War,death, pestilence,starvation,disease and chasmic ignorance.
1100 - 1150 : Cricket and tea afterwards in the pavilion
1150 - 2010 : War,death,rape,world cup 66,more war,plenty more ignorance, child labour,incest,Posh Spice

Switzerland :1AD -2010 AD: Rich


You see the facts don't lie.

We need to basically legalise everything and anything that can make foreigners come here and give us their dough.

I believe the quote you are looking for is

Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.

actually they've never had 500 years of peace , Napoleon took them over and later on they had a civil war,


anyway the reasons they can be neutral don't apply to us
we aren't a major arms exporter , we can't hide behind our mountains while still churning out enough arms from hydroelectric arms factories , our entire population doesn't have guns at home , we don't have fallout shelters in every building

and besides no one trusts our banks

connundrum

OutlawPete wrote: »

Is there any country in the world that doesn't owe money?

We could get a lend off Liechtenstein in lieu of a home win at the next Euro/World Cup Qualifiers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt

strobe wrote: »

1. Pick a county, somewhere that doesn't really serve any purpose.......Sligo in other words. Commandeer all the land and property, move the people that used to live there to the ghost estates scattered all over the country.

2. Employ all the out of work construction workers to demolish the majority of homes and businesses that used to be there.

3. Legalize prostitution and the sale and possession all forms of illegal drugs in Sligo, and change the licensing laws to allow everywhere to stay open 24hrs a day.

4. Have the construction workers build hundreds of brothels, nightclubs, casinos and drug dens. Then have them build an international airport and a big wall around the newly built city.

5. Once the new kick ass party city is built train all the construction workers and support staff up as brothel, nightclub, casino, airport and drug den workers. Train more unemployed to fill any more positions needed.

6. Once Sligo starts exceeding it's capacity, move onto the next county that's dragging it's feet in terms of usefulness. Looking at you Mayo.

7. Enjoy the creation of thousands of jobs and billions a year in tourist monies.

Could we call it 'Las Connaughts'?

FreudianSlippers

Always look on the bright side of life *whistles*

scorpioishere

Cut all social Welfare by 100%

AnonoBoy

scorpioishere wrote: »

Cut all social Welfare by 100%

+ Not a popular opinion there Bob. With the amount of redundancies we've had in the past year the crowd will be baying for scorpioishere's blood if this policy is carried.

- Yes indeed Jim, he's basically condemning thousands and thousands of families around the country to a life of abject poverty. The rise in crime figures alone would be enough to make this policy a complete no-go area.

+ Thanks for that Bob. It's back to you in the studio Sharon.

Des Carter

I have the perfect plan to get out of the recession in 13 easy steps.

1.prank call the white house pretending to be Garth Brookes
2.tell Obama that you want to do a world tour in his honour but are lacking funds
3.set up a world tour
4. bring the tour to China
5.Set up a new Charity in China called " The Dragon Disaster Relief Fund" (DDRF)
6.?????
7.?????
8.spray paint the dragons so that they look like they are South African dragons
9.invest all of Irelands money in South African razor-blade companies
10.have the dragons kill everyone at the China concert and kidnap Obama and Garth Brooks
11.America will be pissed off and as Obama is kidnapped George Bush becomes president again.
12.America will go to war with South Africa
13.We become rich.

Ok so how does this make us rich?
well we set up the (DDRF) in China before the attack so we would have a monopoly on the money donated to the victims, and as China is still being censored etc we will be able to take all the donated money and send it back to Ireland without anyone knowing.

Also we invested in the razor-blade companies in South Africa so when America invades them the soldiers will have to shave and so the share prices in these companies will rise significantly giving Ireland more mony?

Yes it is genious!

corpo3030

You misspelled 'genius', genius.

FreudianSlippers

corpo3030 wrote: »

You misspelled 'genius', genius.

It's a very common misspelling of that word and one which I never quite understand.

Sea Sharp

OisinT wrote: »

It's a very common misspelling of that word and one which I never quite understand.

google chrome spell check FTW

Is mise le key

Simulate an near collision of a meteorite/comet with planet earth & watch all the electro magnetic interferance wipe all records of financial systems & within that our national debt, then once its all over just play dumb,

'Huh, what? Money? What Money?'

Sure if bertie can do it so can we:D

ArtSmart

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I believe the quote you are looking for is

actually they've never had 500 years of peace , Napoleon took them over and later on they had a civil war,


anyway the reasons they can be neutral don't apply to us
we aren't a major arms exporter , we can't hide behind our mountains while still churning out enough arms from hydroelectric arms factories , our entire population doesn't have guns at home , we don't have fallout shelters in every building

and besides no one trusts our banks

10/10.

VampiricPadraig

Put all of the Dail on the Jeremy Kyle Show and that might sort things out!