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After months of wondering, the Irish people now know what's in the next fouryears are going to be.
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As far as an austerity program, here in Ireland, this is it 138 pages of details of how the Irish government will cut spending and raise taxes.
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The ideasthey need to bring down their massive budget deficit down to below 3% of GDP by2014.
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Now, there will be $ 20 billion worth of austerity in this country over the nextfour years but it includes cutting thousands of public sector jobs
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also cutting the minimum wage by one euro an hour,also rising the value added tax that's the national salestax.
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The goal, the Irish Prime Minister said is to bring Ireland back to where it was justa few years ago.
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