well I hope he
does bail out Ireland..especially as I still have plenty of relatives there !!
There obviously needs to be cuts but I really think politicians do not understand that you cannot allow a situation where several generations evolve living on benefits and then think you can make savage cuts and it will solve something.
It's all very tricky...they wil turn to crime..not all of them obviously but we will all end up paying in other ways.
Chris Retro's post is interesting...he is right.
Governments everywhere have been on an orgy of "social engineering" and it just doesn't work.
never has anywhere..in East Europe etc.
If people are getting sozzled there is reason.