Ordinary voices from Ireland- the pain and frustration of the financial freefall

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kateomprint A great post I have been in the exact same position as you and thank God got through it with my children graduating and moving on, But you are now being caught in much harder times, I hope you can hold on and get through it, It is exactly people like you who are going to suffer for the excesses of the Bankers and the speculating developers and the Government we Elected who were asleep at the wheel and were totally negligent while our country was being pillaged and bankrupted, We as a people are the ones who are now tasked with the effort to pick up the pieces of this Nation and somehow put it back together and on the road again,

Wild exhuberance overtook the Irish - thought their tiger was real - simple minded myoa all thru the period kept saying that it was madness for $40K homes to shoot up to be worth half A MILLION. Even the good ol us of a sheep and their Madoff sharks took everyone down with them. Their less and equal others took their sheep dip excitedly to their chagrin. Capitalism is another failed experiment - that fits oligarchs like a glove. Chinese have an opportunity to buy up Erin for pennies on the Euro. Akin to Rothschild's funded - now Russian in their forties oligarchs who buy English teams for pleasure ....

Do you ever get sick of politicians talking about billions. What does it take to get ordinary people thinking about what is really important, life, living it was good as you can, enjoying life and forget all these politicians who are out for themselves. I don't care what party they are in they are all there for so many years so that they can collect a good state pension. It is now time for Irish people to get off their asses and get themselves back on the road to recovery. It is at the end of the day the ordinary people who will pay for this and still keep working every day like I do, to keep my daughter in University because it is something she wants to do and to keep my son who has special needs as happy and fulfilled as I can with limited resources. If I look from something from the State it feels like begging. Don't need that1 Don't want that. I am trying to do my best under very difficult circumstances and Paul Krugman can make all the statements and analysis he wants it ain't going to make no difference to my every day life. I still have to get up in the morning and do all the daily grind, which I do because I happen to care about my children's welfare. Hey I'm just your everyday Mother when it all boils down to it.

"The Irish story began with a genuine economic miracle. But eventually this gave way to a speculative frenzy driven by runaway banks and real estate developers, all in a cozy relationship with leading politicians. The frenzy was financed with huge borrowing on the part of Irish banks, largely from banks in other European nations." ... paul Krugman, NY Times, Nov 26, 2010

Hey Molly did you happen to come across any mechanics or Bricklayers or carpenters in your travels, or were they all... dual Degree holders and Engineers. ....You are so full of BULL.