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only 150,000,000€

category national | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Wednesday October 05, 2005 12:47author by aghast Report this post to the editors

its "only 150 million"
when your budget is "41billion€"

its enough for a small hospital
-sure who would staff it?

its enough for school books for the children of ireland.
-sure why would they be afforded an advantage?
what a pity your pittances mount up so.
what a pity your pittances mount up so.

its enough for an olympic size swimming pool.
-they'd get verucas.

its enough for 200,000 new hospital beds.
-they'd fight over who was getting one.

its enough for 6000 new equipped school playgrounds.
-they'd neglect their studies.

its enough for school dinners.
-they like being the only kids in europe without them.

its enough to pay ireland's share of 3rd world vaccines.
-the irish taxpayer does enough for the third world.

its enough for a better motorway.
-no complaints about the roads here.

its enough for a new dialysis unit in the west.
-they can cut out sugar.

its enough for a new office.
-don't we know

its enough for ????

its only 15% of the extra billion in tax which was claimed in the last year from those who never wanted to pay their tax in the first place.

its only 150,000,000€
you don't understand money.
the state works with big money.
41,000,000,000€ a year.
its pittance. believe them.

those school books you never got.
were a pittance.
the swimming pool you never got
was a pittance.
the health service you never got
was a pittance.
the school dinners you never got
just a pittance.

Its all pittance on pittance.
what a pity you don't understand big money.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   (The Irish government have spent 150million on a computer system that doesn't work)     aghast    Wed Oct 05, 2005 13:47 
   What's a Pittance?     Mark C    Wed Oct 05, 2005 15:05 
   Pittances add up. Keep them comming     blue wall    Wed Oct 05, 2005 15:50 
   Harney     aghast    Wed Oct 05, 2005 21:46 
   mid 40 billion budget on the irish state. small shit on a global stage.     o as if - iosaf    Fri May 25, 2007 19:32 


 
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