Ireland should default on debt says Wall Street Journal columnist

Consciousness is increasing. More people awake to what is happening to society, every moment. Positive change is over due.

Someone needs to stand up to the IMF/EU/World Bank extortion racket - that would be real heroism.

The free staters need to pay their bills .just like every one else in the world. Come on now pay up..you are a disgrace to the Nation of Ireland, you bunch of theives you should not have acquired it if you cannot pay it back.The Germans need to put the boot in here. Pay the woman or leave the bed you losers.

Just, what ever you all do, don't let the IMF/World Bank dictate the terms. If they won't go along, cut 'em loose. All the IMF/World bank/EU-trash industrial complex wants to do is make sure Ireland screws up the tax advantages for new business ...

Burn the bond holders! The Irish government takes in 30 billion euros in taxes and spends 50 billion on programs and people. Some of that spending is debt service. Can the Irish government run on 30 billion euros? It would have to do so without the IMF and the ECB covering deficit spending.

Dublinjas..Has a point..It's a good one..Course one good point doesn't mean he's still not an idiot. He have to make at least 5 good points before he reaches a level where I stop laughing at his crap.

John5319 ..I think you are mixed up..IMF trying to impose socialism??? Tell me more..You might be a genius..Otherwise I'm going to put you down as a crazy.

@Dublinjas-I think you hit the nail on the head mate.

Ireland might as well default,instead of going through years of misery all to end in failure anyway, there is no way any nation can sustain such a debt burden and carry on.

It isn't socialism that the IMF is trying to impose. It looks a lot like totalitarianism.

Ireland has already swallowed the BILGE of the IMF, and surrendered it's national sovereignty to the EU Central Bankers. And that friends IS THE Problem for the people as government freebies gives by way of redistribution of individual prosperity, for there is no free lunch today. Taking from those that have, and giving it to those that "need", is MARXISM. Yet that is exactly what the IMF is doing, and has done, to Ireland and all other EU participants. Marxist redistribution will not work, and at least this man knows something other than the deceit of the Evil Marxist-Socialist political ideology. He does understand economic mathematics. Any responsible parent tells their children NO ... so way can't the government "elitists" tell themselves NO? Because they love to spend "other peoples money" to gain popularity, and Votes. But WHY DO the people of Ireland want to support those, by way of the IMF, the irresponsible spending of other EU countries ?? Why bail them out, and not yourselves with restructuring a debt? Did you forget even Donald Trump did that . . . and kept himself, and his businesses solvent? Ireland surrendered it's sovereignty already to the IMF, that WAS THE PLAN by the globalist bankers, and that IS THE Problem for the citizens of Ireland, yet it is why they should restructure ... take the hard medicine that will cure the problem with the IMF controls !!!

I think the International Bankers already own Ireland. What happens now is out of the hands of the Irish citizens.

If you have a tank or even an armoured car.Bury it in the back garden and grow onions above it.This will defeat the sniffer dogs and weapon detectors.Already there are sides forming and civil war in Ireland because of this huge mill stone that has been fastened about the neck of the people of Ireland by those in Brussels is a possibility.

If I could ask the IMF and the ECB one question, it would be. Are we all the people of the world, or are we a bunch of selfish jerks?

the irish people did not want the money from europe, but our ex prime minister gave a blanket guarantee to the banks that the government would cover all costs, and now biffo the ex is pally with all the developers and bankers, and we are left with the pain, shame on you cowan..