I listened to the Last Word as I was stuck in traffic in Drumcondra on my way to the airport. They were talking about NAMA and how instead of making a profit, like they said it would, it would, instead, cost us money.
It’s no surprise really, people have been saying that for ages, and even today it’s hardly a main story in the Independent. They simply say we might get a ‘smaller return’ on our ‘investment’.
Yet still we sit on our hands and do nothing while we’re living in a broken country which is getting brokender by the minute. A coalition government who squabble over deers, not the 450,000 people who don’t have a job. A health service which is rubbish to begin with being run down to enable private health providers take control. A health service which is depriving more and more people of essential services because they can’t find €2m here or there yet this adminstration can get hold of €22bn, and more I’m sure, for Anglo Irish Bank.
We’re talking about the removal of beds, services, treatments, carers, nurses, surgeries and countless other things that will end up with lives being destroyed, irrevocably changed or lost, and we’re basically burning cash to prop up a useless bank.
This is what the legacy of this government is. An abject and wilfull dismissal of the Irish people for the financial gain and salvation of a few. Remember that the next time there’s an election. When FF and the Greens come to your door, remember what they’ve done, don’t let them away with it either in person or on the ballot sheet.
Sean Quinn and his pals are more important than those who need respite care. Gamblers are to be protected, cherished and bailed out, those with real needs can be ignored and left to rot. Anglo Irish Bank is more important than your cancer or your special needs child. That is the reality of it.
Increased taxes, income and pension levys, carbon taxes, proposed new charges for water and a property tax – desperate measures from a desperate government and none of them will do anything to make things better. All this money will be squandered and wasted because that is what they do. When times were good they hardly made hay, now we’re expected to believe the same idiots who got us into this mess can get us out of it? They’re in a fucking hole and Cowen is standing there shouting “No, No, dig UP!”
I do not want to pay for the crimes of other people. I won’t. I don’t see why anyone else should either.
Broken. Totally and utterly broken and I don’t see anyone who is willing to fix or who can fix it. The damage that has been done to this country is more than likely irreperable in our lifetime.
And when I got to the airport I couldn’t help but look at the departures and start thinking seriously about somewhere else.
Apart from your blog is there any sense of general anger in the country, I mean on the streets, in the pub, shops etc because the scale of blantant rape and pillage of the countries resources is almost on a par with some of the most infamous African states
In the pub, sure. Online, all over the place. Amongst friends, colleagues etc, yep.
Doesn’t seem to manifest itself in any other way though. Well, not in a way that would make a difference.
To answer a previous question, Plaça Reus i Taulet was balmy, vibrant and overflowing with those pretty summetime Spanish girls that make you pity the blind.
Keep up that serious thinking……
Well then… What’s honestly needed? How do we translate all the online “action” to anything that will make a difference? Apart from the just upping and leaving option but that sucks balls too. Surely there must be an alternative.
heh, Lung. I will.
plop – the alternative to leaving is to stay and get horsed up the arse by these cunts.
twenty is a taxi man, it all makes sense now.
they’ve closed all the beds in louth hospital, they cant even do bandages in there now, you’ll have to go to the lourdes in drogheda, this is the lourdes where this weekend there were masses of people waiting on trollies, one person i know of had mass organ failure on account of the cancer, he lay on a trolley from 2 in the afternoon until after midnight before he was even ASSESSED. in the UK they have a 4 hour turnover time during which you’ll have been assessed and treatments started (the missus is a nurse, she has the figures) but it’s clear in louth health servies are deteriorating fast.
in louth, if you go in for a day operation (they have no overnight facilities now) and you react badly to the medicine or procedure and need to be kept in overnight for observation you can’t, because they wont have any beds, and if you’re too ill to be moved to drogheda (which happens)? tough shit.
dermot ahern is an absolute cunt. and the people from dundalk who still vote for him for no other reason than he is from dundalk are absolute cunts too.
But is there absolutely NOTHING we can do to stop them?? Seriously, nothing at all?? No way they can be tackled? There are some great arguments made here. Why can we not find a way to manifest that in real life.
We shouldn’t be forced to leave our own country.
The problem is the people who really run the country are not elected. So the only real way of making a major change is a total revolt dismantling all the institutions, undermining all the established sinews and threads and starting a new secular and social democracy from scratch all over again.
That would be socially and economically disruptive for a generation but would result in an entirely different country at the end of it. The result may be even worse than what we have now because we are Irish and we can’t hold a position for more than a week before changing our minds.
Is it worth it?
It’s not possible, HM. Not without some kind of uprising where people get shot. And is this country worth jail?
rapemachine – saw that about the hospital up there all right. It’s a fucking disaster.
So we just whine here and then leave quietly!?
Awesome!
It’s pathetic really. But I can’t see what else is realistically possible.
You could shoot some people.
Morally questionable!
Seriously though. There is no organised, intelligent non-violent way to tackle this?
You could set up a new political party, Plop. It would need to be progressive as well as democratic. If only we could think of a name…
Yeah. We need to stop being Irish.
Rooms to rent.
No time wasters, no non-smokers.
Bosoms an asset.
TEAM DISCOVERY CHANNEL
All you can do is get the information and pass it on in a reasonable manner to other folks who vote, particularly the folks who’ve always voted for the same old shower or the same old chancer, or the same old shower/chancer’s son/daughter.
Ask them if they think politics is about lining your pocket or looking after the elderly and the ill and the poor.
Ask them what politicians they believe and why they believe them, and how honest have they really been.
Ask them to think about the good of the country and to vote accordingly.
Tell them that anyone who gives them ‘us-and-them’ arguments (public/private, urban/rural etc) is trying to divide us with false opposites so that we’ll fight among ourselves and they’ll remain untouched.
Tell them their vote is a weapon for change. Change for themselves, change for their children, change for their grandchildren.
Ta to those expressing anger. It reassures cunts like me that there are people who give a shit about this stuff.
Its hard to tell sometimes from being away.
I was discussing NAMA with someone who lives here but is not Irish, and he stated the same thing you did – people will die because of this.
Old people, children who need operations we don’t have the resources to give them, people with special needs. The money that’s been taken from them will result in death.
He said he’d been watching – was it SEan Quinn? Whichever one went off to live in a mansion in the US – Charlie Bird doorstepped him and he eventually came out and said ‘My wife and children are here! Have you no shame?!!’
No shame? No shame??
And his wife and children there living in a mansion bought with money from… where?
Ugh.
Bank Man:”Oh crap, I’ve gambled and lost a billion”
Manager:”What you worried about? Eh? I know where we can get some more and it won’t cost us a penny”
Bank Man:”Phew, that was close”
Manager:”It wasn’t, and here’s your bonus, equal plus half your salary”
Bank Man:”Ker-ching”
There is a lot of anger but I think at the same time a lot of people kind laugh it off and say ‘jaysus don’t that bate all wha?’
In other countries people would be on the streets, the parliament would be showered with petrol bombs, cars burnt out and shops looted. I’m not saying thats the answer but at least it sends a fairly clear message. The only message we send is that we implicitly accept the fall-out because nothing is being done to demonstrate the contrary.
If you want to do something get off your arse and get involved. There are occasional protests that very few people attend, if enough people turn up at the gates of Leinster House Cowen and Co will shit themselves and might do an African dictator on it and fuck off to Switzerland with whatever remains in the kitty. Then we get the chance to vote for a different pack of cunts to fuck us while telling us its for the good of the country.
A society should be judged by how it takes care of its most vulnerable, tomorrow there is a protest in Dublin against the HSC cuts imposed on the organisations and individuals looking after the mentally disabled. By doing nothing we as a nation are allowing our government to destroy the meagre facilities built up for this helpless section of society in the good times. We are cooperating with a system that is putting these people back into intuitional care on every increasing medication to cover the lack of staff. By doing nothing we are compliant with a system that will dope these people up to the eyes while the infrastructure the need for some sort of quality of life is dismantled around them to save a few quid, meanwhile we as a nation spend billions on saving the banks. By doing nothing and blaming the cunts in charge and the people who were stupid enough to vote them in you absolve yourself of any responsibility but you are as a member of this society are responsible for how the society works.
Stop complaining and start protesting, it might actually change something.
It’s clear that Brian Clown and co are more concerned with tugging their forelock at the “markets” and the IMF than they are with the welfare of the Irish people. They hope the economy will turn the corner this year, then they have another 18 months to paper over the cracks and get the stupids to vote them in again in 2012.
However, there is a good chance the euro will collapse by the end of the year, in which case we will descend into proper chaos. Amazingly, chaos and financial ruin seems preferable to FF getting in again.
Busted and broken that we are as a country!
My visa for Canada finally came through over the last month, give it a September and I’m gone for good and unlikely to return.
Now the Cunts are talking property tax, I say take my house..it’s worth fuck all to anyone!
We all know deep down inside that politicians will continue to do what ever they want with out question.
Irish people are gullible and naive but most importantly a selfish bunch of cunts.
anyone fancy a jar?!
By doing nothing and blaming the cunts in charge and the people who were stupid enough to vote them in you absolve yourself of any responsibility
Nope.
Morgan inspected the plump green bogey he had just plucked from his right nostril.
It was a warm summer day. He was lying by the pool in his five acre estate on the southern Sardinian coast. Morgan then glanced over his fat tanned fat belly, past his fat toes to his boat which sat in the glimmering sea below. Tonight he was hosting a party for 100 guests on it. The idea gave him a slight boner. It was his turn to throw the annual bonus party, all paid for out of his Emerald Isle Hedge Fund bonus. Friends and high class hookers were flying in from London, Geneva and New York for three days of whatever the fuck they wanted, no questions asked.
A chef from Paris was busy in the kitchen. A lower British royal was arriving tomorrow for the day for a reasonable fee. A special Brandy blend, named after his father was to be served after dinner – a Remy Martin, because Hennessy refused his request. A minor let down but still, Morgan felt invincible right now. Master of his destiny and the destiny of others.
He focused again on the green bogey on the tip of his finger. It had dried and shriveled a bit during his moment of contemplation. It reminded him of Ireland which owed his fund so many billions. The Ireland had shriveled and dried but there still a little juice left and it was his, all his.
He farted, then licked the snot off his finger and sucked it down his gullet.
http://www.dhnet.be/sports/mondial-2010/article/316397/tu-veux-mon-doigt-joachim-loew-video.html Speaking of Snots!!!
LOL – This I like!
5 Ógra Shinn Féin members rebrand FF TDs constituency clinic as “Emigration Office”
http://www.politics.ie/sinn-fein/133154-5-ogra-shinn-fein-members-rebrand-fianna-fail-tds-constituency-clinic-emigration-office.html
I’ll take the organised ,Intelligent and violent option thanks..
A propos of nothing: that lad on the loose in Newcastle. It’s not Christy Moore, is it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/default.stm
Sky news must be coming in their pants.
Raoul Moat?
Sounds like a name that J.K. Rowling pulled out of her arse.
Ordinary (gun)man?
Unfinished revolution?
Fairytale of Newcastle?
Missing you (but not often)?
Nancy Pain?
Black is the colour (of my double-barrelled shotgun)?
Britain’s Moat Wanted
Steroid Paranoid… who’d have thought it? A nightclub bouncer on steroids… whatever next?
North and south of the river (Tyne)?
Don’t forget your rifle if you want to go to work?
Enough, I’ll get me coat.
As a taster for tonight’s footie, check out this Dutch commentator after Bergkamp scored v Argentina in ’98. I wonder if he had a heart attack shortly afterwards?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exlBHTyB1R0
Just left. Things can only get better for me from now on.
Good chanch we might end up being a failed state a decade hence.
Still don’t think people get how terminally fucked things have become in all spheres of society.
Wait till the penny draops as the funding drys up.
speaking to someone who works in louth (closed to fuck as mentioned above) – she told me about a woman, a health awareness promoter or some such, she goes around the place putting up posters and goes to schools and gives out stickers, this person i was talking to wonders what she does all day in her office, this health promoter is on a salary of 120K.
€120,000. per annum.
is it any fucking wonder hospitals are cutting back on services?? fuck.
Government is in the business of spending other peoples’ money on other people. Consequently they tend not to give a monkeys about getting value for money consequently the person paid €120,000 to put up posters and €22,000,000,000 pissed up the wall on Anglo-Irish.
Still delighted I left. Nothing I would have done would change anything since once you get into any position of power in politics in Ireland you have already sullied yourself to get there and to you must then toe the line so as not to be outed as the thievin’ thief of thievery you became to get there.