Why Not Help Troubled Mortgage Owners If We Pay Out Millions On Rent Allowance?

Bronte said:

Originally Posted by cashier http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?p=1161340#post1161340
Ireland had well near 200,000 people unemployed during the good times and yet nothing was done to encourage them to go out to work despite there being full employment. Instead our government encouraged the Eastern Europeans to come and do the work instead.


This is not true. Those 200K long term unemployed didn't want to work and there is nothing that the government could do to change that mindset. Lots of Irish people who otherwise would not have been working got jobs during the boom. The Eastern Europeans were not encouraged by the government, they came for a better life to a place where they could work, in general they took jobs that Irish people were not willing to do. Even in the last couple of months there was a queue of people for basic jobs, in Aldi I think in Dublin and most of them were non nationals.

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Howitzer said:

You're both wrong. They were never 200K long term unemployed during the boom.


The number of those who would have been long unemployed would not have constituted more than 20% of that number.

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