FIFTY THOUSAND MILLION EURO ...WHERE WILL WE GET IT?

Posted on October 07, 2010 at 07:40 PM

The Banking debate which is on-going in the Dáil feels a bit like working in the Palace of Versailles for the oblivious aristocracy while the people outside plan to storm the Bastille.  I heard Government after Government speaker last Tuesday night condemn the Opposition for reflecting public anger.  "Anger is not a policy", they said grandly.  "Everyone must share the pain."  Well, it is a damn good start to developing a policy that will ensure that €50 thousand million euros is never again robbed from the Irish people because of a complete failure to control rampant capitalism at its worst.

Poor people should not pay for this. Neither should families pay by having their sons and daughters put down their roots in faraway shores.  There is money still in some people's hands and taxation reform has to start at the top. We need to look at excess in here too, like state cars and Garda drivers; couldn't senior Minister manage with what the juniors have..their own cars and a job for a man or woman to drive it while the Garda drivers go back to the depleted force.where they are needed?

We need to activate money and activate people. Poor people spend their money close to home. People with jobs have money to spend.  Why don't we call in the goodwill of the diaspora all around the world; offer them the opportunity to invest in indiginous projects that interest them; expand and publicise the Solidarity Bond concept to encourage patriotism; link it to real job-making proposals and real businesses that banks don't want to know about.  Focusing purely on fiscal misery will get us nowhere.

The anger is necessary to make real change that gives power and hope back to the people.

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