Let's look at the reality of things to come:-
1. 24000 Public Servants to be made unemployed. Therefore, millions worth of disposable income not available to the Private Sector (supermarkets, shops, restaurants etc).
2. Minimum Wage to be reduced. Great, more disposable income not in circulation.
3. Lower Paid to be introduced to the PAYE, again more disposable income not available.
4 Water Charges to be introduced, great for the county councils and useless for everybody else.
5. Site Tax, furtive little tax which will be increased yearly, any disposable left from foregoing to be retained for this.
6. Anybody being employed in the Public Service (e.g teachers) to be employed @ 10% less than their colleagues who have already accepted at least 14% reduction in wages. Of course it's more money that wont be available to the entrepreneurs.
7. Social Welfare Entitlements to be means tested. Do I see the chance of new civil servants being recruited, consequently? And what about the new devices to detect that mobile phones of some non Irish claimants are still in the country? The latter is as inspiring as the unused and expensive voting machines.
8. Still nothing on the reduction of the amount of TDs. It's the same story with the Senate.
9. Still no chance of seeing crooked politicians, incompetent bankers in jail. Compound this with students being hammered while protesting and the dreadful manhandling of a single protester standing in front of a politician's car last Sunday. I wont even mention the people who cannot pay their mortgages and about to be evicted.
10. Not to be forgotten . . . less disposable income plus negative equity will put pressure on many many marriages leading to divorce/separation which leads to more Social Welfare payouts.
And the furtive taxes to follow. Our nationhood has been compromised. There's only one thing left - - - EMIGRATE.