[Stu]

So we really are fucked, eh? I know more about American politics than Irish, but you'd hear mixed reports all over the gaf.

What's going to be getting worse? I know it's a naive way of looking at things but the view from the ground seems to be okay. A bad recession with high unemployment, yeah, but I know plenty of people in jobs and the disposition seems as cheery as ever.

I'm never getting a job, are my .