There are more homeless people in Ireland now than ever before. Why? In a single phrase; housing crash and bank crash. When people couldn't afford to keep up their mortgages, which had risen year on year with the banks, who had ****ed us all over, getting fatter and fatter, did these banks understand? **** no: hand back your keys. So many people who would never have dreamed they would be on the streets are now either there, or crammed into one hotel room with their entire family, trying to scrape by. That's not a mindset, that's not people being lazy or not having the right attitude. That's a heartless government and - for want of a better phrase - rich class who don't give a curse about the hardship they've caused through their greed, intend to do nothing about it and STILL smile their ads on the TV about how "we're backing doing" (huh?) - basically saying they're lending for mortgages if you want one. Interestingly, among all the flowers and singing, every single one of these ads now comes with a stark warning: FAILURE TO KEEP UP REPAYMENTS ON YOUR MORTGAGE CAN LEAD TO LOSS OF YOUR HOME, AND WILL AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO OBTAIN CREDIT IN THE FUTURE.
****ing ****s.
Also, there are more houses being built for private sale than for social housing by a factor of god knows how much, but it's big. Maybe 10 percent for social housing. So those stuck in a hotel room, or on the streets, or living on a friend's charity, can see all these new houses but it's like in Family Guy: NO! NOT FOR YOU!
Again, ****s.
I don't see where in any of this any particular mindset comes into it, and I too am disgusted with and ashamed of this guy for suggesting, from his no doubt mansion and grounds, with his massive salary and huge pension pot, that it might be. It doesn't matter that it's only suggested as one of many factors; like Exo says, it shouldn't be mentioned at all. It shows a heartless disregard for the real suffering poor people are going through, and coming from the mouth of one who probably never had anything other than a silver spoon in his, again, disgusting.
He should read Jack London's The People of the Abyss, then talk of mindsets.
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