I Feel Your Pain

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Taoiseach Micheál Martin

This morning.

Via RTÉ News:

Addressing the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party last night, Mr Martin said that the coalition Government is “conscious” about the rising cost of living, and how much of it is energy related.

He told his party’s TDs, Senators and MEPs that they are examining “a range of measures”, including reducing Government charges, in order to enable people to protect their disposable incomes.

Meanwhile…

…Around the same time, Mr Varadkar told a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting that the planned €113 energy rebate “isn’t enough” to counter rising energy prices.

He also mentioned the potential of lowering Government fees and charges – saying rising inflation and higher prices means more needs to be done to help families.

That should do it.

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14 thoughts on “I Feel Your Pain”

  1. TenPin Terry

    I do laugh when I see some people complaining how hard it is raising a family with rising energy and food prices as they horse into €5 pints and step outside to smoke one of the 20 fags a day they get through before picking up a fish supper for themselves on the way home.
    Spend less time in the pub and more on how you spend your money.
    Like this enterprising young lady.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10460015/Mother-reveals-87p-day-meal-plans-struggling-families.html

    Here’s an idea.Instead of children wasting hundreds of hours learning a language they’re never going to use teach them home economics and why an Irish stew is healthier and cheaper for your family than frozen pizza.

    1. GiggidyGoo

      That’s quite a summation of your own life there Walter Mitty. The minimum pricing must have hit you really bad.

  3. Trustin Judeau

    The time to tackle the cost of living in this country was 5 years ago!
    Rip-off Ireland was a thing for ages, after the crash we should have been looking to lower the cost of living to make us competitive (and to make the quality of life decent for lower earners)

  5. Chris

    They’re not really going to do anything meaningful with energy, housing, healthcare etc. We’re in for a rough ride where everything gets purposely more dysfunctional.

    Market forces will be blamed, but there isn’t really a market anymore. Everything is now pretty much oligarchicaly owned, the remaining medium players realise the games up and are exiting the market.

    The technocratic solution offered will be better in someways, than the dystopic end point of our current paradigm. It won’t allow for private ownership of assets, and what we now imagine as freedom. Younger cohorts are already being primed for subservience.

    Politicians will have a rough ride ahead. They’re the fall guys for why our paradigm is failing, but they’ll be well paid for their troubles. They’re policy enforcers (outer party) not policy creators (inner party – central banks via NGOs).

    There will be zones, to keep up the pretense of international conflict etc but it’ll all be under central control. The NWO has already been here for decades, they’re just dismantling the final vistage of nation states (legal) and ushering in the new social paradigm now.

    It paints a pretty bleak picture, but getting emotionally involved with every new wave of this teardown, is something I’m going to teach myself to avoid. Why? Because they’re intentionally trying to break everyone’s spirit, and I want to be able to say ‘No! Fupp off!’ before I’m gulaged. Because non-compliance won’t be allowed and I’d rather the glue factory than accepting the boot.

    For a summation of where we are now (crisis) to where we’re headed (normalisation) Yuri Bezmenov (ex-KGB) gave a lecture in the 80s, you should be able to find it on YT. For how we got here, this guy has a free PDF here https://www.joeplummer.com/ – Tragedy & Hope 101 it’s a brisk synopsis of Carroll Quigley’s work, and while missing a lot of detail, it’s a real WTF! – this stuff should really have been taught in school, but after reading – you’ll understand why it wasn’t. It’s a real peak behind the curtain.

    Ignore international conflicts (Russia/Ukraine) etc. They weren’t joking when they said ‘We’re all in this together’ – they really are at this point. If you’re looking for an out, Brazil will be the last to be tamed I reckon. But it’s probably best to watch how things develop over the next 4-5 years.

    Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, smoke em if ya got em.

    1. K.Cavan

      Fiat currency has always been a magic money tree, freewheeling, the governments now know that our system is all coming down, eventually, so they’re using money-printing now, while it still functions, to keep the boat afloat for a while longer.

  7. K.Cavan

    I suppose it would be churlish to point out that these two chancers are actually part of a coalition with the Greens, who’s policies are going to be largely responsible for the pain the Irish people endure as prices spike & the economy tanks?
    I heard their idiot leader recently proposing €50 billion of “Green Investment”, in an economy worth €90 billion per annum, to make our homes “comfy & cosy” with insulation. What sort of bourgeois twats vote these lunatics in?
    Ecological movements were founded by people who actually were concerned with the environment but after little more than a decade, they were hijacked by the Left, as a weapon to use against Capitalism. The board of Greenpeace voted out the founder of the organisation a while back, he was the last scientist on that board. The Left have co-opted numerous causes in this way, from Race to LGB.

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