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Greedy Tiger: 50% Priced out of Homes
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Saturday April 10, 2004 00:20 by goodbye heart
“Everybody knows land speculators and developers are ripping off the people of this state, and that this government either doesn’t have the guts, or isn’t interested in standing up to them.” Responding to reports today that almost half of all those living in Dublin and a third of all those living outside Dublin will not be able to afford a home in two year’s time, Dublin EU election candidate Mary Lou McDonald said “Everybody knows land speculators and developers are ripping off the people of this state, and that this government either doesn’t have the guts, or isn’t interested in standing up to them.” |
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Let it not be forgotten that the banks and building societies are also in criminal partnership with Fianna Fail in the greatest rip off of the century ,of our young people so desperate to own a home at any price.
If these amoral,greedy, profit driven organizations were using prudent lending criteria and the old rules which restricted loans to a multiple of annual income were still in force the housing rip off would come to a standstill.
The same banks,which aided and abetted thousands of businessmen to avoid paying their taxes through off shore a and fraudulent 'non resident'accounts ,and got off virtually scott free for their crimes-are now complicit in the great housing gouge of our young by 'Friends of Fianna Fail.'
Fianna Fail will never -and can never reform the status quo as their relationship with landowners,builders and big business is so intertwined as to preclude that possibility.The current Oireachtas report and recommendations will gather dust, in government Archives,as did the last report on this subject commissioned over a decade ago.
Fianna Fail is 'Big Business' ;Fianna Fail is 'The Builders Party';Fianna Fail is the Embodiment of Corruption since the day that C.J.H.hijacked it,many years past.
I do not believe it is capable of re-inventing itself.Even now 'Cu Cullen is driving new highways out from 'The Pale',having soaked Dublins citizens dry,-the new speculators,farmers,and landowners of the hinterlands,await the arrival of our dispossed youth,who will be fleeced once again in the towns of navan ,Trim,Kells,etc,and face a long (and expensive )commute into Dublin all for the privilege of owining a home of their own
Civil servants -,who dont want to leave-can consider themselves lucky!-they won't have so far to travel for gainful employment thanks to their forced repatriation.