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by **Big Niall** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:22 pm

GYBS wrote:No not at all - just wondering why you would be happy to take a pay cut - unless your already earning a high wage -

And the fact you earn over the 30 grand mark means that you are earning more than any military person who does the same job as you . People in my line of work in the private sector with the same skills or maybe even less earn well over 70 grand a year plus overtime - and yet you think i should take a paycut ?

I wouldn't be happy to take a paycut but I would be willing to if I thought it was required for everybody to do so in order to turn the economy around.

I'd take a drop in my living standards to secure a sound economy for the future.

by **Judge** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:31 pm

take my paycut also niall, so i can still live it up

by **Big Niall** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:55 pm

Under the Irish constitution Judges cannot get a pay cut (seriously) so you should be okay

by **GYBS** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:56 pm

Thats very comendable of you Niall but my living has always been stretched to the max but i never go beyond my means and this pay rise i have got will actually not mean anymore money in my pocket in the slighest as everything else they charge goes up to compensate it all .

by **Big Niall** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:44 pm

okay - how about,in principle, a 10% cut on income over 50k for the public sector? i.e. if you earn 55k, there is 10% of 5k i.e. €500 a year.

by **Judge** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:48 pm

Big Niall wrote:Under the Irish constitution Judges cannot get a pay cut (seriously) so you should be okay

better move to ireland then

by **GYBS** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:57 pm

Big Niall wrote:okay - how about,in principle, a 10% cut on income over 50k for the public sector? i.e. if you earn 55k, there is 10% of 5k i.e. €500 a year.

well yeah in principle i think the high earners should in same way help out a lot more than the low earners but in reality we all know that will never happen .

Here is an exampple for you - A priest in the Military earns over 80 grand a year ?!?!?!

by **Judge** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:02 pm

GYBS wrote:
Big Niall wrote:okay - how about,in principle, a 10% cut on income over 50k for the public sector? i.e. if you earn 55k, there is 10% of 5k i.e. €500 a year.

well yeah in principle i think the high earners should in same way help out a lot more than the low earners but in reality we all know that will never happen .

Here is an example for you - A priest in the Military earns over 80 grand a year ?!?!?!

yeah, thats a right rip off. paying that much to someone who worships someone who probably doesnt even exist.

i mean if i were dying on the battlefield, i wouldnt want a preacher praying to god for me. i'd want me mates round me for comfort in my last minutes, so i could tell them to tell my missus some personal stuff

by **GYBS** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:06 pm

Exactly mate - it is shocking what they get paid .

by **Big Niall** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:47 pm

Jesus, we just had a brutal budget. My pay is down about 7-8% but I'll take it on the chin. What is doing my head in is the media complaining that the lowest paid and the social welfare is down by about 2% (previously you could earn about 18k and pay zero income tax)

everybody is taking some hit which is the right thing.

by **Judge** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:48 am

so the beers are NOT on you then

by **Big Niall** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:21 pm

I now have to recycle it.

by **RedShredder** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:02 pm

The economic meltdown didn't really effect me until the last few months where my business really, REALLY hit a wall as did all others in my line of work

Amazing but thankfully I have a new job coming up soon in January that will pay me a solid amount

by **Big Niall** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:33 pm

january is 9 months away?

the irish taxpayer is just taking over 90bn worth of property loans, there is roughly 20 times as many people in britain so imagine what it would do for britain if you took over 1,800,000,000,000 POUNDS (not much difference between a euro and a pound) worth of debt i.e. 22,500 for every man,woman,child so an average family with 2.2 children is 100,000 in debt - on top off their own debts.

I'm off to zimbabwe

by **Dundalk** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:47 pm

Things arent picking up at all are they?

This country is facing 15% unemployment and I can honestly see it getting worse than that. They are now saying it will be at least 2011 before we might see a change

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