Sick of this country

I don't think you're particularly interested in the topic anyway as you're here to score points and that seems sort of inappropriate one week after the death of the president of the ASTI, Miriam Duggan, who died aged just 63. May she rest in peace.

Ah jaysus lad you just used the death of that poor woman to point score.

Your assertion that teachers die 5 years after retirement is dubious at best.

Absolutely no need to bring the unfortunate death of anyone into it.

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I have great respect for teachers, they do a tough job and should be remunerated adequately on pay and conditions.

But to be honest you are doing them no favours with quite farcical militant defence of them.

The teachers I know can't stand the unions for the exact reasons.

Let`s put it like this. FG took a bucket of crap and mixed it with the cariar. Separating the two is no easy task. I have sussested in the past reversing everything they did since 2008 but that involves resurrecting Anglo Irish Bank, selling Ireland to it, doing a demerger with Anglo getting it`s original debts back etc. Also going after defaulters for years of arrears and so on. FG made such a monumental mess of everything, that fairly blunt tactics are needed. What I know is it would be a mistake to take on a big mortgage to buy a house that has been deliberately inflated, while at the same time exposing yourself to the 200 billion euro debt, acquired to inflate house prices. This is why house prices must be deflated and the beneficiaries must be the ones to pay. I know what I am describing is a blunt instrument and micro surgery would be needed to separate the liable from the non liable.

Communism is borrowing 200 billion euro to protect defaulters, pay civil servants high salaries, bail out the banks etc etc all to inflate house prices and then handing the bill to people who were school children when the property mania was in full swing.

Capitalism is hitting those responsible, ie owners of existing properties, with punitive taxes every month and automatically advertizing every house for sale on a government website from the very instant it`s tax has not been paid.

Granted some are more to blame than others. Some have merely benefitted but were happy to stay silent as their property was deliberately inflated. Others got away with years of default because the government wanted to keep properties off the market so house prices would stay high. So yes, what I am suggesting is a blunt instrument but there is no reason the more culpable could not be singled out for special treatment.

House prices have been deliberately inflated. Had FG not inserted a false bottom in property prices by insuring a traunche of houses against negative equity when house prices were falling, they would have continued falling another 20%. Had FG not inflated house prices deliberately with borrowed money which they used to prop up banks and facilitate those in default (for more than a decade in some cases), had FG not used borrowed money to pay high salaries in oder to ensure government employees paid their mortgages, then your arguement might have some merit.

Correcting the situation requires punitive monthly taxes on all existing properties and the sale of any which are not immediately compliant.

Hang on are you taking the píss?

Your ranting and raving promoting delusion as fact which all sound like an extremely weird revenge fantasy.

Resurrect Anglo, Punitive, Special Treatment, Stealing homes.

Please tell me you are on the WUM?

@Peter Flynt Teachers in France teach less per week by four hours for a Full time contract. The day is longer because they have a two hour lunch break. They also do no supervision at breaks. Other people are hired for that. The school year at Second Level i believe is the same but the holidays are laid out differently.

Primary schools in France teach 4 days with every Wednesday off for 144 days a year, significantly shorter than the Irish school year of 183 days,

There are HSE pay scales. Foreign workers get paid the same in the HSE as Irish workers do. A foreign nurse isn't cheaper than an Irish nurse.

Are you trying to say most teachers are doing well to live to be 70 years old? Not sure where you are getting your stats on that one. G'way outta dat.

I could be flippant and say bon voyage but having lived in both aus & the us I can truly say this country despite its faults is by far a better place to raise a family , I paid 10k in the states to send my kid to a Catholic high-school , in fairness weather it was one or ten kids it was the same rate but my point is this country is such a good place to raise a family, sorry if you feel cheated !

Sorry did you think your ranting raving about stealing houses off people wasn't academic?

I'd say the country is as good or bad as most others.

It's working out for some, but it isn't working out for many others.

Salary, cost of living, cost of housing, healthcare, are the usual subjects.

Just FYI, that is East Hastings, the poorest postal code in Canada. A very very grim place.

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