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Re:Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental w... by circlefavshape on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @12:39PM (#40054155)
How has the state destroyed itself? Most of the debt is from the bank bailouts during the 2008 financial crisis (debt quadrupled between 2007 and 2013)

> Government is giving free houses, money to people who don't work [...] and people make a lifestyle out of living on welfare forever

This is just the usual blah blah moaning about welfare states in general. What do you mean by "unlimited dole"?

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Re:Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental w... by negamax on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @12:49PM (#40054292)
Unlimited weekly money of €250 for people who don't work. This isn't a small amount. Specially on top of free housing by schemes like HAP. That can give as much as €2000/month in rent

End result is a destroyed housing market and young people who rather get trapped into welfare

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Re:Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental w... by romafirst3 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:27PM (#40056157)
there is no welfare trap.
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Re:Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental w... by circlefavshape on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @04:20AM (#40061866)
There are housing crises in cities all over Europe and the US
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Re:Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental w... by throwaway55671 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @12:47PM (#40054270)
Free houses sounds very unlimited to me.
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