Posted on 08/01/2010 7:09:29 PM PDT by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
DUBLIN, Ireland ─ Like to buy a nice new airport? No? How about a railway network or a power station? Well then, wouldn't you like to have a bus company, or a harbor, or a television service or a chain of post offices?
Anyone of these properties could be yours; all reasonable offers considered. They are slated to come under the auctioneer’s hammer in a fire sale of national assets in Ireland.
Like a household up to its ears in debt, the Irish government is planning to sell off the family silver to make ends meet.
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I wouldn’t mind my own harbor, but an island would be nice.
With beach defenses...
Well, let me tell you....
I'll take this farm by the sea.....
This one out for a date.....
This food and drink.....
And Kate Rusby singing music.....
What will that cost me?
Whatever it does, at least it is wonderful and desirable.
Ireland is almost like paradise on earth. Best people I have ever met.
Or........I guess I could move to Chicago, Florida, LA, or Atlanta....I heard they have some really great real estate for cheap. Naaaa! I'll stick with Ireland.
How much would I have to pay to deport Bono out of Ireland?
Maybe if he and the rest of U2 paid their taxes then Ireland would not be broke.
That's a pretty leftist description of the project of removing the burden of running utilities from the tax payer to the more efficient private sector.
I have a management degree and lots of experience with recalcitrant staff. I could run a postal service.
In the long run, this will be very good for Ireland. I would like to see the Feds here sell a lot of the land they sit on in the American west.
I wouldn’t. They’d sell it to China.
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