Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v3.0 (07/04/13 - 08/07/14)

Skid X

MrsD007 wrote: »

It only looks that way now, everything is relative.

House prices went completely out of proportion to Income in recent years.

They were far cheaper pre-boom



http://www.theguardian.com/business/ireland-business-blog-with-lisa-ocarroll/2010/nov/16/ireland-bailout-crisis

tayto lover

hotmail.com wrote: »

Yeah, but that generation paid pittance for their houses.

When I bought my first house it cost 12,075.
Got a mortgage for 11k and had savings of about 1 k. Could I get the 75 pounds anywhere, beg, borrow or steal, had to take out a secret loan.
Took me the guts of 25 years to pay the mortgage off.
Money was money then and wages were poor.

hotmail.com

What evidence did the Gardai have to take that Roma child off their parents?

This is going to be a scandal.

Lady Chatterton

Skid X wrote: »

House prices went completely out of proportion to Income in recent years.

They were far cheaper pre-boom



http://www.theguardian.com/business/ireland-business-blog-with-lisa-ocarroll/2010/nov/16/ireland-bailout-crisis

My point is that houses in the 80s weren't exactly cheap when people were paying 18% interest.

grey_so_what

tayto lover wrote: »

When I bought my first house it cost 12,075.
Got a mortgage for 11k and had savings of about 1 k. Could I get the 75 pounds anywhere, beg, borrow or steal, had to take out a secret loan.
Took me the guts of 25 years to pay the mortgage off.
Money was money then and wages were poor.

That is spot on tayto!

hotmail.com

Will Bulmers be affected by minimum pricing!!?

grey_so_what

I've no doubt you will play it again tomorrow Vincent.........:)

Roger_007

grey_so_what wrote: »

They don't really Roger.....They just commander the car, but they work for the tax and insurance.......at least they do in my house!....:)

They may have exaggerated about them all having cars, but they point I was making was that in my student days (80s), virtually no student had a car. Everything is relative.

Skid X

hotmail.com wrote: »

Will Bulmers be affected by minimum pricing!!?

Bulmers is too expensive already!

hotmail.com

Skid X wrote: »

Bulmers is too expensive already!

I agree, I hope it gets left alone!!

grey_so_what

Roger_007 wrote: »

They may have exaggerated about them all having cars, but they point I was making was that in my student days (80s), virtually no student had a car. Everything is relative.

I agree, but it's not all students rolling into the carpark in BMW's!.....We didn't have cars in the 80's but it is different times now.

Families do have cars nowadays and it is not unreasonable to think that they would't be used by all family members. A lot of students travel long distances to college and a car is sometimes not a luxury...

Lapin

MrsD007 wrote: »

A bit harsh Lapin

Not all pensioners are wealthy but the ones that are should lose their medical cards and other benefits.

The free bus pass is feck all good to you unless you're living in a large town or city.

I don't mean to be harsh.

But I've been through some budgets in recent years that have been very harsh for me so it makes my blood boil to hear people losing the rag over losing a phone allowance worth less than a tenner a month.

As for the medical cards - I don't think people should be entitled to one just because they reach a certain age. If they need one they should be means tested. I agree that there are some people who should be automatically entitled to one, regardless of age.

If pensioners want to use the fact that they worked hard all their lives then I'm entitled to ask them why they didn't make better provisions for their old age. I also ask them to take a look around them them and ask themselves if they are happy with the society they created.

You reap what you sow.

Lady Chatterton

There are quite a few pensioners bailing out their adult children, I know friends of mine who are relying on handouts from their parents so they can meet their monthly mortgage re-payments and keep their cars on the road.

As for the phone allowance, I think there is a special case to be made for elderly people living in very remote parts of Ireland that have little or no mobile phone coverage.

grey_so_what

MrsD007 wrote: »

There are quite a few pensioners bailing out their adult children, I know friends of mine who are relying on handouts from their parents so they can meet their monthly mortgage payments and keep their cars on the road.

As for the phone allowance, I think there is a special case to be made for elderly people living in very remote areas of Ireland that have little or no mobile phone coverage.

I'd love to hand my 87 year old mother a mobile phone........:rolleyes:

Thankfully, she is not dependent on the phone allowance but there are plenty that are.......

I often wonder if people who take allowances like this actually have thought it through, or do they do it so they can renege on it when the fuss starts and it looks like a mini war has been won???

Lapin

MrsD007 wrote: »

As for the phone allowance, I think there is a special case to be made for elderly people living in very remote parts of Ireland that have little or no mobile phone coverage.

I think everyone living in such places has a case for some sort of compensatory allowance regardless of age.

grey_so_what wrote: »

Thankfully, she is not dependent on the phone allowance but there are plenty that are.......

Like everyone under pension age living on Jobseekers allowance.

grey_so_what

Lapin wrote: »

I think everyone living in such places has a case for some sort of compensatory allowance regardless of age.



Like everyone under pension age living on Jobseekers allowance.

I don't think anyone is a winner these days Lapin.....:(

Lapin

grey_so_what wrote: »

I don't think anyone is a winner these days Lapin.....:(

Except for.......

MrsD007 wrote: »

There is a big job coming up in Europe and he (Gilmour) has been linked to that.

grey_so_what

Lapin wrote: »

Except for.......

:(:(

He won't go hungry, that's for sure.......Where ever he is these days........

grey_so_what

MrsD007 wrote: »

Every media outlet in the country has been covering the fallout from the medical card situation though.

(The withdrawal or refusal to give medical cards to some people with serious illness or disability).

I was looking for this link MrsD last night......

This is the sort of games the government are playing with Medical Card holders.

The stress must be unimaginable for people concerned.....

http://www.herald.ie/news/relief-as-medical-card-is-reinstated-29686263.html

Roger_007

Gerry Adams and his pidgin Irish.......always makes me smile!

grey_so_what

It that's the best Enda can do, it's pretty poor........


No wonder they keep him away from Vincent......


Basically a Government who has a majority can vote in what they like......Nothing new there.

Harry Angstrom

grey_so_what wrote: »

It that's the best Enda can do, it's pretty poor........


No wonder they keep him away from Vincent......

The only reason he's Taoiseach is because he hung around long enough. He's an embarrassment.

Roger_007

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

The only reason he's Taoiseach is because he hung around long enough. He's an embarrassment.

So bring back FF?

grey_so_what

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

The only reason he's Taoiseach is because he hung around long enough. He's an embarrassment.

He is one, if not the longest serving TD's Harry if memory serves me right...

He got the Daddy's job.

Harry Angstrom

Roger_007 wrote: »

So bring back FF?

It's either Tweedledum or Tweedledee.

grey_so_what

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

It's either Tweedledum or Tweedledee.

I wonder where the crashing Labour vote will go in the future.

Interesting times for the next election.......

grey_so_what

Here we go again.......Wicked Vincent.........

Halloween Enda again.........

Harry Angstrom

Kenny and Gilmore are nothing more than liars and hypocrites.

Roger_007

grey_so_what wrote: »

I wonder where the crashing Labour vote will go in the future.

Interesting times for the next election.......

There will probably be 100 independents.......forming a Government will fun.:rolleyes:

vicwatson

Some laugh, Kenny and Gilmore doing their best to sound genuine and honest on the back of the truck outside the dail in Oct 2008.

A load of me bollix