Would be Ireland creating a generation of vagabonds?

I don’t understand anything about economy, and if you asked me something about the present crisis I won’t give you technique or even some useful information. Besides the fact that I’m journalist (at least that’s what my diploma says) I don’t have deep knowledge about anything, what is a shame, but anyway, I can give you my impressions about some things. Now I’ll play an expert in Irish crisis, since I’ve worked for a bankrupt business person and now I’m working for an accountant who works in a bank.




Let’s start from the beginning. Last year I arrived with two bags at my last boss house. He used to work as a manager at his father business, one traditional contractor company. When I first arrived there, even with the crisis knocking on his door, he used to spend money with travels, golf gears, all the types of games for the kids and all kinds of little pampering that money can buy. The only thing that he used to be concern about was my salary. A miserable one, I have to say. I’ve always to “remember” him that I needed to receive the payment for my work. Some people here really think that Brazil is a huge jungle where people have two options: the first one is living in the jungle with the monkeys that are personal Sylvester Stallone friends, and the second one is lye on the streets dying hungry and thirsty… Ok, we have poverty and misery, but c’mon, Brazil is as big as a continent and is one of the most important economies in the world. Is time for people to know a bit more about what happen abroad their borders…

Back to the subject, one time my first boss spent an entire month at home because there was no work for him at the company. I started to think “Things are though”… But then on the next month he started to spend money again as if there’s no tomorrow… Anyway, the time has passed the complains about money became more frequent. One month before I travel with my brother I notified my boss that he’ll need to hire another Brazilian slave, because my time in slave quarter was over J he told me that he didn’t knew about his future in the company, nevertheless he packed his bags and flew to a resort in Spain with his kids and girlfriend. I have left his house three weeks after that and I’ve just knew that he don’t have a new au pair because he can’t afford it. As a big part of Irish companies the company is broken.

Another important point is the unemployment, better saying, and the unemployed people whose take advantage of this situation. Yes, here it is possible and people are getting used to live without a job and extorting money from the government for years.

I always talk with my new boss because he is a nice person and moreover is a good source of information about this subject. We’ve been talking about it and it always comes some new detail. The weirdest one is the Irish welfare. I know that the government here is really paternalistic, but I haven’t known until now some details about this sick relationship.

Everybody knows that unemployed people here have some facilities that make their life less difficult or better saying in Ireland case, easier. In Brazil we have as well, but the easiness last at largest 6 months. Here this ‘help’ can last a life time. Yes, a lifetime! My boss told me that one unemployed man was there to renegotiate one debt and my boss asked him if he had tried to find a job at pubs or something and the answer was something like this: ‘No, I don’t want. It’s not for me’. So my boss had a look on his statement and the man had spent money in travels… I don’t know in what time of the chat the man told my boss that he was going to spent one month in Spain with his family. So after hear this I was perplexed but I asked how this man could do that, and then the explanation came.

Here in Ireland unemployed receive some money from the government. And they receive some amount as well. This people also have facilities to get food, clothes and everything that they need. So, they can have a normal life without working. This mas who was talking with my is unemployed for 5 years! Yes, five years having their bill paid by the workers that have to pay 40% about their wages for the taxes. My boss can’t travel since the boys was born and he works hard as his wife, but unemployed who learn how to gable the government have this luxury.

The companies were well served by the banks during some in a time that there wasn’t bureaucracy. The banks loan money without any proof that they can have it back. Some people who has companies used to live a very comfortable life traveling and buying in expensive stores without have any profit in their companies. People around use to think that the company was doing well, butactually the luxury was being paid by loan money that now the banks are trying to get back.
What will Ireland government do for all these people Are Irish govern creating a new generation of vagabonds?