Ireland tops European household unemployment figures according to new research

Welfare / Police State syndrome maybe? Who knows. I like George Carlins take on Class in America. The rich pay no taxes and do little work, the middle class work and pay alot of taxes, and the poor are poor to remind the middle classes of what will happen if they do not. On a more serious not however I think that in the past 15 or so years we have gone deeply into the beginning of a new age. Does anyone read Gizmag! Ok so if you dont have look its free. It has thousands of pages of new things were doing in Science. Its a great way to actually take in the transition from the post industrial age into the age of Technological Mastery. This has been heavilly invluenced by economics in particular looking for growth and its achieved by producing more and doing it faster and cheaper. How are they doing this, faster microchips, better communication networks, better transport and so on. The poor have never been able to adapt to these changes and those in other classes that get knocked off have actually joined the ranks of the poor because they were not prepared for the changes or were simply replaced by a machine. Its almost like the very beginning of the 1900's when farmers replaced farm workers with tractors, or when Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in a gruesome fashion because they needed slaves to work in factories, who became wage slaves. Back then social welfare was nothing like it is now. I wonder how long before it all reaches Depression levels and then well one of the well to do nations decides to try and give them a kicking...History is full of times like that. Welfare is great though from a Clausewitz stand point because it keeps even the poor somewhat protected from exposure and makes the nation that more fighting fit. While those who pay taxes may see it as a burdon if push comes to shuv they will be glad they have support that has been well kept.

towngate: Will you be joining them? Or are you collecting your dole in the north?

This has nothing to do with immigrants as at least they are willing to work!! As SevenStar says you have monkeys running the country voted in by donkeys.

Did i hit a nerve, it wasn't a personal attack just some home truths. Guess i was right.... No need for you to keep attacking immigrants on a daily basis. Being one yourself.

Bobby, I have reported your inane invective as Personal Attack. But really, we need a category of "Stupid Nonsense" under which to file your posts.

YA WELL THATS BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOAD OF MONKEYS RUNNING THE COUNTRY .... OLD MEN IN THEIR 60S SHOULD GIVE OVER AND LET YOUNGER PEOPLE RUN THIS COUNTRY....

@Woundedknee, you are obsessed with immigrants. The same crap comes out of your mouth everyday. You are an immigrant yourself, you live in a country full of immigrants. I bet you are a very Bitter person, i pity those around you. Then again i bet your a loner.

Bobby: That money you saw sloshing around is probably a result of the ridiculously high Welfare Benefits Package Ireland suffers from. Those spending honestly obtained Earnings are working in a country that exists only by virtue of International Bank Loans.... as I said; A desperate land of Delusion and Denial!

" central Dublin was packed with people. " But most of them weren't Irish. Bobby of course wouldn't oknow the difference, hs zip code is in Fools Paradise USA.

@Towngate, I hear what you are saying but from what i hear in Ireland just like the UK, credit from banks is gone for many, Frozen. Pay back what you owe and then the account is closed. On my last trip to Dublin alot of money was been spent in the shops and the restaurants. I was expecting alot worse in Dublin on my visit from what i heard on the news, but it was as busy as London if not more. People are spending in Dublin and it is NOT on credit.

Yes, Bobby, but ....IT IS NOT THEIR OWN MONEY THEY ARE SPENDING - IT'S ALL BORROWED! THE 'CELTIC TIGER' HAS NOW BECOME THE 'HIBERNIAN HYPNOSIS' OF DELUSION AND DENIAL!

Yet more proof of the Madness of Mass Immigration. Countless Irish people out of work, yet the foreign migrants continue to stream in. I'm just back from a trip to Ireland, and I was dumbstruck by the numbers of Indians, Malays, Paks, Poles, Bulgars etc that I saw. Even the person who came on the intercom to welcome us to Dublin when we landed appeared to be a Pak. He had a very unpleasant accent. So there is no Irish person smart enough to be able to take a microphone and say "Welcome to Dublin. Your bags are on Carousel Six"? The Irish capitalist class are utter traitors--that's why I never Buy Irish if I can avoid it. I urge Irish Americans not to collaborate in this subterfuge, when Made in Ireland no longer means Made by Irish Workers.

Could the continual higher "household" figures reflect the fact that perhaps typical Irish households are more extended, include more generations and people living together and helping each other out? As opposed to other places where household often means just two people and children, if any. This way of measuring unemployment may not fit the Irish way of living together , as families.

I was in Dublin 2 weeks ago, Recession what recession, central Dublin was packed with people. People with alot of shopping bags and the restaurants most were full. I read Irish people will spend the most money this christmas in the E.U.

That is the whole idea- auto genocide Then those who have jobs will be pitted against those who don't like Towngate projects below.