Giveaway Budget

I've given out on occasion about the government here also, but again, credit where it's due, their budget (out yesterday) seems good and is unusual by Irish standards.

Instead of fannying around with tax bands etc (ala Ireland) or giving benefits via some sort of share scheme (here previously), everyone gets hard cash! How much you get depends on what your situation is, but more is assigned to the poor and elderly,which is only proper. According to the cursory glance I gave the paper today, individuals can get up to €600 and a certain type of family could get a grand or two (Euros). Poor students and national service (they are always going on about that here!) people get some cash too.

They probably use the funds garnered from fines to pay for it, and unfortunately I'll get nowt, but still it seems a good budget.

The fact that there's an election due soon is totally co-incidental! They must have been watching Bertie's tactics!!!!