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do you not think your shielded from the real world. we could have a depression here that could last 10 yrs and it wouldnt affect you in the slightest. other people could lose their jobs,cars and houses but it wudnt affect you cos your public sector job "protects" you from all that. its like you never left home and your mums are still minding you
What have we done wrong apart from house prices ? Are we any more corrupt than other countries ?
And what have we done right apart from low corporation tax ?
so welfairrite is at work he is doing 50% more work than he gets paid for and still he has time to spend all day on the internet . you dont sound very productive to me.
What have we done wrong?
Allowed construction output to peak at almost 23% of GNP in 2006. Huge amounts of capital and labour were sucked into what is now a financial and economic black hole. If the construction sector were to shrink to 'normal' EU levels then we will have lost perhaps 10% of our economy.
Debates about the public sector aside, the real drivers of employment growth over the past 4/5 years have been the pubilc sector and the construction sector (with all the associated hiring in retail; services etc that were dependent on this).
We allowed inflation take hold and now workers (rightly) are demanding higher wages to compensate for this when in fact we need real wages to fall in order to restore competiveness (it took Germany a decade to do this). Ireland is a very expensive place to live in.
When did we last attract a flagship foreign company? We have completely failed to grow a domestic export sector yet the export sector is expected to now step up to the plate and rescue the economy. We are dependent on decisions taken in other countries for too much of our economic wellbeing.
Where are our domestic tech companies? When did and Iirsh company last list on the NASDAQ.
Knowledge economy? Not really. We need engineers and scientists but we have plumbers and estate agents. People are happy to believe that we have a well educated workforce but many IT companies are having trouble filling posts because I believe that we have a genuine educational and skills deficit. Why slog away at computer science when you could earn more as an electrician? For sure, we could attract overseas talent but see my point above about inflation.
Private sector credit almost equal to GNP! This will act as a severe drag on domestic consumption for years to come.
We need better infrastructure (the capital spending plan will address this in part but lack of €€€ will put a good portion on hold).
What have I missed?
my apologies it was television that said that
television - im on holidays so im entitled to be on the internet. at work i wudnt have time. and to sum it all up we will finish with flaxs comment
entitled !!! a private sector is not entitled to anything at retirement, unless they pump a load of their monthly salary into a pension and then pray for good stock market times
private sector people retiring this year are not goign to be ok as the markets are in disarray.
But for me money has nothing todo with why I work more than I am contracted to. I do it because i believe I am doing something worthwhile for the community. Put a price in the thousands of people in the public service who think this way??
Agree that these arguments are childish. If people think that the public or private sectors workers get it soo easy or make so much money, then why dont they apply for a job in that sector?
I'm tired of the ......" the public/private (delete as applicable) sector has whatever which I dont have in my job...." statements. Everyone is free to chose their career path.
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