Ireland Four Year Plan for Budgets: On June 05, 1997, the Irish Independent famously ran its front page editorial titled  - - "For years we have been bled white - now it's payback time" - - a day preceding the general election, and more than 13 years later on December 7th next, Budget Day, the beneficiaries who have brought economic ruin in the interval, will begin to deliver a payback to the people. Ignorant politicians, aided and abetted by vested interests in a democracy of many shortcomings, travelled on the road to perdition and blew the best opportunity ever, to put the Irish economy on a sustainable course. Now the people face the real payback time in the four years, 2011-2014.