Cut the dole? Me arse!
"Let them work for their dole money!" is the usual call. What a load of bo11ox! If they have jobs like road maintenance, river cleaning, etc for the dole people to "work for their money" they they can pay these people a decent wage to do the work and give them jobs in the process instead of getting them to work for an entitlement. I was on the dole for years after school and it help me a lot but would loved to have had a job. 200 euro is enough to get by on and help those who cannot get jobs. Sure there are those who don't want to work and spend their entire working lives on the dole but that is a life choice. You have to admire our country (Ireland) for the way it looks after its citizens and if you feel that those on the dole are having the life of Reilly then you should try it sometime. Gouldinho, I know you are in this situation and you say you can get by on less but many can't. I know I did but I too was living at home and had all my meals etc but there are many who can just survive.
If they want to save money cut out their expensive cars, the tax breaks for the rich, tax imposts from outside Ireland, up the tax on gigs and drinks, revive the guarnteed Irish products, help small business to take on more employees if they need them, tax breaks for those starting up business and ban all government funding to all sports organisations (they should all be amateur anyway). Okay, rant not over but enough for now.
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