There is no escaping sums. You can protest them, as the French are doing, and you can put them off for a while, maybe. But like Thanos, sums are inevitable.
Demographic crisis.
The problem here is that when you have no money for pensions, there are, basically, only three things you can do.
China is looking at a massive shift in its demographics over the next few decades as the fallout of the one child policy works its way through China’s economy and Chinese society.
The rulers of the world’s biggest country are running scared
When politicians get into “building a legacy” mode, that’s when they’re at their most dangerous to their colleagues.
Families lose out, again.
One suspects, in this case, that Mr. O’Callaghan is not going to prison because of what he did, but because of how foolish he has revealed the state to be.
At present, Ireland is on course for a disastrous pensions reckoning
In 2020 up to the end of November, there were 15,295 work permits issued to non EU nationals. The total for the previous year including renewals was 16,380. It is quite likely then, given the numbers who have arrived since Christmas from Brazil that the total of permits granted last year was very similar to, […]
A great scoop in the independent by privacy reporter Ken Foxe: Details of the lump sums, pensions and termination pay for individual TDs and senators will no longer be made public following a decision by Oireachtas authorities. The payments have been published by Leinster House for more than a decade without issue. However, the Oireachtas […]
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