How to piss me off
I came across an article the other day.
To put it mildly, I was a tad brassed off.
According to Mister O’Sullivan, the entire financial fiasco in this country was caused by the greed of the Irish people.
Nothing to do with the banks, then?
Nothing to do with banks lending millions to their shareholders to buy shares in same bank? Nothing to do with banks lending 100% mortgages and more? Nothing to do with bank board members granting themselves massive loans, off the books? Nothing to do with banks lending silly money to anyone who walked through their doors? Nothing to do with banks all but forcing people to take out loans at daft interest rates that the punters could barely afford?
Let me tell you something, Mister O’Sullivan.
The last time I borrowed from a bank was in 1982 when I took out a bridging loan, which was paid off within days. The last loan I took out was from my credit union back in the Nineties to upgrade my car. That loan was fully paid off within three years. Since then, I haven’t borrowed a red cent. I owe nothing. I don’t have a mortgage. I have a small overdraft facility that I never use. I have a credit card with a balance of zero. As far as you are concerned I am a model of financial good sense.
And what do I get in return?
I received a letter during the week to say my pension is to be cut because of a gubmint levy. I now pay tax on my pension where I didn’t before. They want me to pay for the privilege of owning a house [and they can fuck themselves on that score]. They want to charge me for water [ditto] and for having a septic tank [also ditto]. I am also paying extra VAT every time I buy something. And all this to bail out the fucking banks and the appalling mess they caused.
I had no hand, act or part in the so called fucking Celtic Tiger. I didn’t benefit from it in any way whatsoever, yet not only am I having to pay for it, but cunts like you Mister O’Sullivan – a fucking banker – have the fucking neck to accuse me of causing the problem.
So, Mister O’Sullivan, you can go fuck yourself with a barge pole.
Preferably one wrapped in barbed wire.
Cunt.
AMEN!!!!
Heh! Welcome, Tressia. Short, and to the point……
Yep, it's the same here Grandad and they're still doing exactly the same things.
I just heard on the telly yesterday, one man who had actually tried to clean up the mess before the bailout, said they were "too big to fail" then and now they are too big to jail. The gubmint actually stopped him from bringing charges against these wankers.
The saddest part is these banks, here and in Europe, are all owned by the same people. What recourse do we lowly peons have?
They actually jailed one of our lot today. He had stashed away millions [billions?] to avoid paying his debts. He got nine weeks in jail! I'd probably get more than that for non payment of a television licence.
This guy needs to be rolled out every now and again, this seems like another good time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2nA2szz8dY
Now if they replaced the ad breaks on television with that, I'd be a lot happier.
O'Sullivan speaking on behalf of Credit Suisse – the same bank that employed traders who had 'cooked the books' to hide $540m losses and protect their end of year bonuses, the same bank that is being sued by Richard Desmond for mis-selling derivatives, and the same bank that actively facilitates offshore tax evasion.
People in glass houses!
Please can I throw the first stone?
Stone? Bloody well heave a paving slab.
I was being metaphorical. I really meant a nine-inch concrete block.
The bankers and their Irish buddies pulled the state down.
Idiots like you and me who were responsible during this time, now have to pay.
And I shall continue to resist paying at every available opportunity. I consider it my duty.
Why would anyone pay property tax to fund these crooks.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/pension-pot-of-75m-for-those-who-failed-state-3276609.html
It really would make you sick! Those bastards should be on a fucking noncontributory state pension. Let them "feel the pain" as they so eloquently want to put it. Better still – shoot the lot of them. They are only a worthless waste of oxygen.
Cheering you to the rafters here GD, you speak (rant) for millions.
They seem to be doing things a bit better in Iceland. Some of the bankers have been jailed and a few political sphincters are still puckering like poppies in an autumn breeze as the net closes in … wish it could happen here.
I find it rather disturbing that the headline on our national broadcaster's web site is "Seán Quinn Jnr visits father in prison". Why is this a headline? What the fuck is it about the Quinns that makes them so fucking special?
Did he have a straight face when he said it, or maybe he had a smirk while he checked lists of numbered accounts of upstanding business men and leaders from around the world.
I honestly don't know how he got away with statements like that. In Spain or Greece he'd be a dead man walking.