Heros to Zeros : What can the Government do to get back on track ?

[dent]

I should firstly state that in our house, we voted FG & Labour at the GE, and would normally do so.

If there was a GE in the morning, would we vote FG/Labour ? No. Not because of harsh measures in the budget (that was expected), but because of rank stupidity and craven cowardice towards the Troika and the Germans/French. This is not what we expected, and I suspect there are many more FG/Labour voters who feel exactly the same.

A post I put up last night made me think how the hell did the Government drop the ball so quickly and easily. Including these ....

What gobshyte thought it was a good idea to break the pay limit for their advisors ? They weren't in the door and they were doing as I say, not as I do. Great example that was.

Who thought they could slip their allowances through without it being noticed ?

Considering the gaff prone days of the last Government, who thought it was a good idea to re-hire Eoghan O Neachtain ? So much for new politics.

Who actually decided it was a good idea to save 7 million by hitting the weakest in our society while the likes of Dinny O'Brien can swan in here on an Irish passport and pay bugger all tax ? Irish citizens should be taxed on Worldwide income.

Why did they feel to give so many hostages to fortune at the last GE, and then renege on them, at a time when they didn't even have to ?

Above all, the craven and psychophantic way they have behaved, towards the Troika and Merkel/Sarkozy, has made people see that they are as gutless as Fianna Fail and the Greens. If we can't believe in them, who's left ? It's a f**king sad day when the Shinners appear to represent the way I want us to go forward.

All we hear is "that was the deal Fianna Fail signed us up for" or "those contracts can't be changed" or "they can't be charged" etc, blah blah blah. It isn't acceptable, they are the GOVERNMENT FFS ! Get it done.

FG/Labour had a chance to be in power for years to come, can you see them last 5 years at the rate they are going ? What can they do to turn their fortunes around, taking account that, regardless, the next number of budgets will be bad. In my opinion, they need to start growing a pair, in Europe first of all. The excuse that the ECB won't let us refuse the bondholders is not acceptable. We have shown that we can take the hits, but we've got NOTHING in return. People say they are giving us money to pay our nurses and teachers. WE HAVE TO PAY IT BACK !!! It's not free. Between that and their slithering in front of Merkel and Sarkozy, is showing that we are slaves within Europe rather than equals. I don't want that, and I don't believe most Irish people want that either. The direction Fine Gael and Labour are taking us, will result in as bad an act as the treason Fianna Fail perpetrated on this country. Every bit.

There are other areas where they should also be making changes quickly, to show the Irish people that the same cozy cartel has to go, such as,

- taking on the fees of the medical profession
- taking on the fees of the legal profession
- why the hell are front line workers in the health area being allowed to get redundancy/early retirement while we still have a bloated managerial administration in the HSE ? Start from the top down. Reilly talked the talk, and is doing little apart from whinging about what he can't do now. Not. Good. Enough.
- Why hasn't the changes to FOI not been brought in during the first 9 months of the Dail ?
- Why haven't the changes to the Data Protection Act come in to allow for example, the price a house is sold for, to be available publicly ? This would start to help in finding where we are in the property market.
- Why isn't there anything being done about regulating the Estate Agents ?
- Why hasn't there been a complete clearout of senior management in Irish banks ?
- Reduce the 180 days to 60, for tax residency, and get rid of the overnight bit i.e. if you land in this country at anytime during the 24 hours, then that is counted as 1 day.

The people need to see fairness, it's not happening.

EDIT : I should also add, the idea of a 3% tax on all income over €100,000 is a good one, and something that would be brought in asap.

[Tuogid]

This government are now so tainted its not going to be possible to reverse it.

FF=FG=Labour=Merkozy

[Ribeye]

Back on track, ha,

The members of this cabinet can look forward to spending the rest of their lives in exile, without pension or protection, and that's the best case scenario,

When the govt falls, which is now inevitable, if they don't scoot to the airport fast enough, they may find themselves spending the rest of their days in a cell!

[dent]

This government are now so tainted its not going to be possible to reverse it.

FF=FG=Labour=Merkozy

There will come a point where that will be the case, but I don't think they are there yet. Perhaps if they try to scaremonger people into voting away our sovereignty in a referendum (or indeed if they try to deny us a referendum), then we may reach that point. It is sickening the way they, like Fianna Fail before them, have fallen over themselves to lick the collective Merkozy arse.

[Steepletone]

Announce at 9pm on christmas eve that we are leaving the euro

[thereisnogodnorallah]

Back on track, ha,

The members of this cabinet can look forward to spending the rest of their lives in exile, without pension or protection, and that's the best case scenario,

When the govt falls, which is now inevitable, if they don't scoot to the airport fast enough, they may find themselves spending the rest of their days in a cell!

Dream on. This will never happen. The people of Ireland will never rise up. They haven't since 1798. The leaders of the 1916 rising were spat at and booed. The leaders in 1919-1921 ran a gauntlet of informers. The people of Ireland will bend over and take it, or emigrate if they can. Wish you were right but previous behaviour is inclined to predict future behaviour.

[antiestablishmentarian]

Well they could always resign if they were serious about reform. They obviously aren't going to change anything.

[Fractional Reserve]

Banksters lend money to governments and have them by the nuts . The system is set up so politicians are subservient to Banksters for there vote buying antics. So nothing will change until the political system and banking system are split apart.That goes for all countries .
The Banksters own us and the big givernment /godvernment.

[EUrJokingMeRight]

Dissolve the dail and go back to the people for another election. The majority do NOT share the views of Kenny, Noonan et al.

[Cassandra Syndrome]