Budget 2008 (1 Viewer)

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

The medical card for over 70s is means tested though, isn't it?
Seems fair enough.
What would Sir Tony O'Reilly be needing with one of those?

yeah it is but you are sick all the time when youre over 70

 

[maims bond]

yeah it is but you are sick all the time when youre over 70

well then you should do the decent thing and just roll over and die. Nobody's gonna miss your slow driving and inane conversation.

 

[Jerry Twig]

The abolition is not fucking stupid. Means testing is the way to go. You had a situation in Ireland for the last years where retired millionaires are rolling up to their GPs in their Mercs and then pulling out the medical card. Give me a fucking break.

 

[GO]

There hiking up the vino and smokes.And 8cents on a litre of petrol.
Not great.

 

[maims bond]

There hiking up the vino and smokes.And 8cents on a litre of petrol.
Not great.

smokers are jokers

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

yeah well at 60 euro a pop for the gp see how quick your wages dissapear if you are diabetic and most youngg people don't qualify for medical cards. tony o reilly will be alright tho, and not all over 70s drive mercs, they are just on modest private pensions a lot of them. but you have a good point tho. anyway the fags bothers me!

 

[Jerry Twig]

yeah well at 60 euro a pop for the gp see how quick your wages dissapear if you are diabetic and most youngg people don't qualify for medical cards. tony o reilly will be alright tho, and not all over 70s drive mercs, they are just on modest private pensions a lot of them. but you have a good point tho. anyway the fags bothers me!

they've abolished the automatic entitlement to a medical card for the over 70s, so if you are diabetic and can't afford the bills you are still entitled to a medical card. what this does is remove the entitlement to a medical card for those who can afford it easily. That's eminently sensible. Doctors were giving out about medical cards being used by skinflint millionaires and you better believe that poorer elderly people resent that shit too.
Medical cards for them that need it. Good call there.

 

[GO]

I was hoping they'd lash the smokes up to a tenner.It would force me to jack 'em.Still might at €8 though.

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

good man you know way more than me about this shit

 

[ratmonkey]

Propping up the property sector, which got us into the shit in the first place. Cunt.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I was hoping they'd lash the smokes up to a tenner.It would force me to jack 'em.Still might at €8 though.

Have they jacked up whiskey by 500%? That's the only way I'm gonna quit.

 

[classic seanc]

I really don't get the wine thing.
No one's going to give credance to my drunken rants if I'm forced to deliver them with a can of Dutch Gold in my hand.

 

[GO]

Jazes I fancy a glass of wine.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i went to the gp once to see could he do anything about me dermographism and he treated me to a lengthy rant about the injustice of charlie haughey being entitled to a free medical card while some of the poor people cleaning his house and mowing his lawns probably couldnt get one. my father turns 70 next year - he'll be raging about this.

 

[therealjohnny]

petrol and wine too....my two favourite drinks

at least both can be diluted with anti freeze

they havent put up the anti freeze have they?

 

[maims bond]

Seems to be some sort of tax break for cycling to work. No detail on how and how much but sounds good.

 

[classic seanc]

I am about €4.60 a week worse off.
Though if you consider the reduction in the current account levy, I'm actually only €4.40/week worse off on balance. Then again, that only counts if I give up cigarettes, wine, writing cheques, flying on planes, sniffing petrol and the gaining of capital assets.

 

[dleacht]

1000 euro over five years if you own a bicycle. I am so screwed on the petrol thing. I swear I have to downsize and my car is only a 1.4 engine but its costing me a fortune

 

[nlgbbbblth]

are they means testing child benefit?

if we lose it, one of us might as well quit work or at least work fewer days.

 

[Corey]

8 euro for a pack of fags-up 50 cent

Helping the poor, eh?

Right.