Ireland should be telling the IMF to f**k orf and let the bond holders default and banks go down the tube.

why are banks holding western economies to ramsom ?. Nationalise the bastards and kick out the fatcats-they've shown how useless they are at gamblinbg with other people's money.

If we can't have socialism at least we should have real capitalism !

I guess what we have is a form of inverted socialism in which the capitalist class huddles together as a highly organised and self aware collective instructing their managers (our leaders) to increase the transfer of society's resources from ordinary people to those with more than they can imagine spending.

The capitalists need the carrot to motivate them in the same way the poor need the stick. And when the carrot fails they use the stick on us to produce an endless supply of carrots. You couldn't make it up.