Would you like a €50k Top-Up?

Times are tough, we all must share the pain. Special needs teachers are being cut, the weakest in our society are paying for the actions of the bankers and the politicians. Think of Enda Kenny, the man that never shouted "STOP" at Bertie Ahern destroyed the country. Poor old Enda was on about €100k last year. This was not enough for him, so lets give him a €50k top-up? Yeah, lets do that. Sure while we are at it, lets give Eamon Gilmore a €40k top-up? They deserve it.

More money was paid to all the parties, and naturally enough, no receipts are needed. Just a handwritten note saying how they spend the money. Seeing as Ireland is a republic, and we are all to be treated equally, maybe its time for all of us to claim "expenses" with no receipts when the tax man comes looking for more money to give to Anglo bondholders.

No wonder Ireland is bankrupt with corrupt politicians like these filling their pockets with cash while giving the rest of us 2 fingers.

NAMA is now spending €1 million per working day.

On Primetime this evening, it was revealed that NAMA is spending €1 million of our cash per day. The breakdown is

€78 million to banks for admin fees
€75 million for insolvency
€45 million for staff
€25 million for legal fees
€10 million on professional fees.

We have already pumped in over €30 billion to take the dodgy loans off the banks balance sheets.

The worst part of this sorry story is that we cannot find out whats really going on inside NAMA, as its exempt from freedom of information requests. As ever in Ireland, if there is a shroud of secrecy around something, it normally means something fishy is going on.

From what we can see, the people that caused the mess are now being paid by NAMA to sort it out, and being paid very well. There is no austerity for these crooks.

This make it all the more clear why we all must refuse to pay the household charge next month.

Why did Greyhound get the Dublin bin collection contract?

Its very odd the way Dublin City Council handed over the bin collection service to Greyhound Recycling. There appears to have been no tender process, and even funnier is the fact that Greyhound's head office is now based in the Isle of Man. How did Greyhound manage to get an Irish tax clearance cert if they are not even based in Ireland? How did a company based in a foreign country win such a contract. Even more interesting is what happened just before Greyhound moved its head office from Ireland to the Isle of Man. They were caught overcharging Irish Rail, and had to make a settlement of over €1 million. So, they were caught conning one government company, and then they are given a nice contract with another.

Something smells here.

Greyhound are demanding that customers pay in advance for the bin collection service, so customers must prepay for the services. What happens if Greyhound goes bust? Why is this money not held in trust. Have Greyhound paid into any bond just in case something goes wrong?

All this coming at a time that the government is expecting us all to pay a €100 household charge to pay for local services.

Keep the pressure up on TD's to find out what really want on here, because the stink of rat is overpowering.

The waste goes on and on and on.

Another day, another few thousand Euro's down the drain. Just 2 years ago, when Green looney John Gormley decide to spend over €100k country frogs Enda Kenny went mad. What does Enda do when he gets into government? He comes up with a plan to count the number of seals around Ireland. This news comes on the same day that we find out that Kenny's department spent a whopping €30k on photographers last year. Seems its austerity for us, while Kenny and his chums live the high life.

Enda gets another holiday today as he is off to the USA again, no doubt more lavish dinners and expensive wine, just one week after he was there on another trip. Some have the life eh? And guess what suckers are paying for it all? Us.

Looks like there is no difference between Kenny, Cowen, Ahern and Haughey.