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only 150,000,000€

category national | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Wednesday October 05, 2005 12:47author by aghast Report this post to the editors

its "only 150 million"
when your budget is "41billion€"

its enough for a small hospital
-sure who would staff it?

its enough for school books for the children of ireland.
-sure why would they be afforded an advantage?
what a pity your pittances mount up so.
what a pity your pittances mount up so.

its enough for an olympic size swimming pool.
-they'd get verucas.

its enough for 200,000 new hospital beds.
-they'd fight over who was getting one.

its enough for 6000 new equipped school playgrounds.
-they'd neglect their studies.

its enough for school dinners.
-they like being the only kids in europe without them.

its enough to pay ireland's share of 3rd world vaccines.
-the irish taxpayer does enough for the third world.

its enough for a better motorway.
-no complaints about the roads here.

its enough for a new dialysis unit in the west.
-they can cut out sugar.

its enough for a new office.
-don't we know

its enough for ????

its only 15% of the extra billion in tax which was claimed in the last year from those who never wanted to pay their tax in the first place.

its only 150,000,000€
you don't understand money.
the state works with big money.
41,000,000,000€ a year.
its pittance. believe them.

those school books you never got.
were a pittance.
the swimming pool you never got
was a pittance.
the health service you never got
was a pittance.
the school dinners you never got
just a pittance.

Its all pittance on pittance.
what a pity you don't understand big money.

author by o as if - iosafpublication date Fri May 25, 2007 19:32author address author phone Report this post to the editors

i never lost that chip on my shoulder. i took it away with me to foreign lands which yet merited domestic secret services and all island solutions or photo-ops. So i moved further away. and then i watched the individuals i had left behind at mild rascalry grow in the depth of their deceit and avarice. meanwhile a new generation of chip bearing shoulders arrived. this photo is the moment a hooligan and sub grade poor person or racaille as they say in french put a chair through the progressive democrats window.

my chip on my shoulder doesnt hurt so much anymore because for the most part other people carry it. we are now going to put the former tanaiste, minister of justice, leader of the progressive democrats, attorney general and ribid gurgle big swinging mickey mc dowell on the receiving end of a tribunal and investigation.

well done mickey.
you never answered the questions that mattered.

you sniffed round my garden and now you have won the future attention attendent to same. what does it feel like now you have no magical powers i wonder publickaly. in a few more weeks no-one will even think of ignoring you. it is doubtful that your spawn and offspring will get off petty criminal charges without resentment. there is such a long list of people who really want their ounce of your flesh- metaphorically speaking.

it was always a most conceited address to take or use of seats.
it was always a most conceited address to take or use of seats.

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author by aghastpublication date Wed Oct 05, 2005 21:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

is shelving the pittance
& I have the chip
on my shoulder.

Related Link: http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/1005/health.html
author by blue wallpublication date Wed Oct 05, 2005 15:50author address author phone Report this post to the editors

21billion in FREE gas for shell.
50 million on voting machines, no papertrail, no accountability, no verification. 600,000 a year now to store them.
Where are the 2000 cops
Were waiting for 'private' investment to open the brand new wards at James connoly Memorial.
The tunnel has overrun by a factor of 6 times the original estimate. And it wont take the supertrucks.
The suicide rates are soaring through the roof.
Society is falling appart at the seams because no one is home anymore-trying to pay extorsionate prices for tiny housing units in the floodplains of Meath.
The blood of 100,000 souls on our hands because they helped murder innocent civilians so Bush and Bliar could control more of the worlds resources.....

author by Mark C - Teacherpublication date Wed Oct 05, 2005 15:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Anyone remember this little question before the launch of the Euro?

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author by aghastpublication date Wed Oct 05, 2005 13:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

it was supposed to make the management of the Irish health service more efficient and run the payroll at the press of a button. It transferred one million to one worker's bank account, by mistake. The worker wasn't supposed to get paid a million in wages. A million is nothing.
one million is even less than pittance.
its not even the steam of urine of a government's budget.
one million wouldn't even pay for the election posters of a national party.
one million wouldn't even buy a hospital ward-.
one million would only get you 20 playgrounds.
one million would only buy blankets for all the people who don't stay in sub sahara.
we try our best not to even count one million.

 
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