Comments on: Ireland is not working http://weeatbricks.com/2009/04/05/ireland-is-not-working/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:04:55 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Paul M. Watson http://weeatbricks.com/2009/04/05/ireland-is-not-working/comment-page-1/#comment-4446 Paul M. Watson Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:10:04 +0000 http://weeatbricks.com/?p=97#comment-4446 Not sure how #2 and #8 fit together. You use to work at the TSSG and, being a public body, many of us now have the pension levy. It took over €250 out of my last pay-cheque. That is a tax and, as you correctly state, makes me less able to spend money so rippling out into the larger economy. I would love to get rid of the pension benefit all together, I don't want the bloody thing, but they say I can't opt-out. The public sector should be as performance driven as the private sector, but remember that the government is the biggest employer in the land so any "nail the public sector employees" idea is going to hurt the private sector too as we stop buying things. Totally agree that we need to be creating jobs (private and public) though. Not sure how #2 and #8 fit together. You use to work at the TSSG and, being a public body, many of us now have the pension levy. It took over €250 out of my last pay-cheque. That is a tax and, as you correctly state, makes me less able to spend money so rippling out into the larger economy.

I would love to get rid of the pension benefit all together, I don’t want the bloody thing, but they say I can’t opt-out.

The public sector should be as performance driven as the private sector, but remember that the government is the biggest employer in the land so any “nail the public sector employees” idea is going to hurt the private sector too as we stop buying things.

Totally agree that we need to be creating jobs (private and public) though.

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