“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cold days and nights, jobs being cut everywhere and a €7.5 billion shortfall in the amount of taxes collected so far this year. It does not look good at the moment.
On the plus side electricity bills are meant to be reducing and the price of drink is not meant to increase for the next year. If anyone has been drinking in Dublin City Centre recently, they will know that one frozen price for a pint would be very welcome but very unlikely.
It’s a downturn and it’s something that maybe we should ask ourselves about. Will we look back at the Celtic Tiger and use that age old phrase “you never had it so good?”
So maybe it’s time to toughen it up, to just go through it and not make leaps that we know that given the circumstance we won’t reach just yet. So on hold go the new cars, plasma televisions, winter sun holidays and various other gadgets and things we may want but not necessarily need.
Then again, maybe we’ll just continue to do the same thing as before only at 75% of the cost. We may go out and drink less, we may stay in and spend less. I’m not sure those that who have lost their jobs recently will agree.
And as for the government…
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions, Views on News.
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