If FG want my vote, make Richard Bruton Finance Minister.

[freedomlover]

I plan to vote FF/PD like I did in 97 and 02, but I could still switch. I voted FG before that. I want Ireland to stick to the low-tax small-government pro-business economic model. I don't want the high-tax Nordic economic model. A poll last week showed I'm in a big majority in Ireland. Notice that the combined vote for FF, FG and PD in tonight's poll is 70 per cent, twell up on 2002. The Left in Ireland are going nowhere. The Irish people don't simply prefer Boston to Berlin, they prefer Chicago to Copenhagen and San Diego to Stockholm. Clowns like Fintan O'Foole and Vincent Browne-Stuff can't grasp that. I've put in a few posts this last few days showing how Ireland is totally out-performing the Nordic countries, not just economically but socially. You can still read them under the name freedomlover. Most of the replies have been dismissive and hostile, but obviously its my posts that have caused the collapse in the Left's vote in tonight's poll, or at least I like to think so. the The Irish electorate can tolerate Labour Ministers, but not in positions where they can wreck the economy. The Irish electorate don't want an ex-marxist (possibly still a marxist but too embarassed to admit it) as Minister of Finance. So, if you want my vote, here's how: state clearly that Richard Bruton will be Minister of Finance in any FG-led government and that Pat Rabbitte will not allowed be anywhere near the building.

[osuilleabhain]

[Excerpts] I don't want the high-tax Nordic economic model. A poll last week showed I'm in a big majority in Ireland. The Irish people don't simply prefer Boston to Berlin, they prefer Chicago to Copenhagen and San Diego to Stockholm.

Freedomlover,

have you lived and worked in Scandinavia or the US?
How does home ownership & house prices compare between
all three locations? How does quality of life compare? How does
education compare? Public transport? Crime? .............

Peter O'Sullivan
Independent Candidate Dublin South-East

http://www.d246.org

[The Earl of Desmond]

You took the words out of my mouth Peter! The Irish public don't seem capable of understanding the reason they spend so long sitting in traffic is due to following Boston, or why they live in a house estate in the middle of no where which doesn't have a secondary school etc etc the list goes on and go.

So freedomlover you keep driving your suv, spend most of your free time in traffic, hope your parents have vhi, hope you can afford a private school when you kids are teenager and don't blame anyone but yourself when your kids grow up and have to live 2 hours away because they can't afford to live where they grew up.

Remember when the truth dawns on you you have only yourself to blame.

[The Collective.]

Peter.
Some of your ideas are radical. But sorry I support the new child protection bill, even though the wording is bad. Wont be getting my vote. That and I'm very pro-EU.

[freedomlover]

I work for an American company in Ireland. I spend 3 months a year working in California at our head office. The quality of life is superb. Never been to Sweden or Finland, but lived in Copenhagen for 2 years between 1998 and 2000. Denmark has the worst health in western Europe. Life expectancy in Ireland is 2 years higher. Denmark invariably comes below Ireland in PISA education tests. Finland has the highest homicide rates and highest suicide rates in western Europe. Life expectancy in Ireland overtook it in 2005 (see Measuring Ireland's Progress 2006). Sweden is undoubtedly better than Denmark or Finland. Ireland ranks above all three in the UN Human Development Report quality of life indices (see UN Human Development Report 2006).

Face facts. The game is up. The Left is doomed in this election. Whether its an FF-led government or an FG-led government, the Left vote will be down. The Left is going nowhere in Ireland. But, of course, like all true Leftists, you'll say its not your fault, but the people's fault.

[Dasayev]

I plan to vote FF/PD like I did in 97 and 02, but I could still switch. I voted FG before that. I want Ireland to stick to the low-tax small-government pro-business economic model.

Since when is Ireland a small government country. TDs and Senators galore, and I seem to have missed the mass culling of Civil Servants by Bertie and Mary.

[The Trinity Politick]

No one has actually said that Pat Rabbitte would be finance minister. He hasnt done anything to dispell it, as obviously he wants to build up his image. People need to cop on to themselves.

[FutureTaoiseach]

The Irish people don't want a left-wing ideologue like Rabbitte in the Dept.of Finance, dreaming up new taxes on Irish people. But that is what they will get if they vote Rainbow.

[the crimson chin]

In one of the debates Pat Rabbitte said "as Minister for Finance I would.....", It was right before McDowells Left, Far Left and Left Overs remark. Pat seems to think he will be.

[Munion]

It would be one small saving grace of a FG/Lab/Green coalition if Richard Bruton was Finance Minister