An open letter to Irish politicians (26)
Godsgift: Sorry, Mario Monti is the new Italian PM.
Well said FiFi.
Unfortunately there has been a bankers coup and people haven't realised it. Goldman Sachs, who created the Greek trajedy by fiddling the book, which is fraud, are behind a good deal of it.
Mario Monti, the new Italian PM has never been elected to anything in his life and yet he is Prime Minister. How is that possible? He then appointed himself as Minister of Economy and Finance. Democracy??? Of course Monti. A clue to his success is that he is a member of the Bilderberg Group and an international advisor to Goldman Sachs
The new PM in Greece, Lucas Papademos, is also an appointee. He has never been elected to anything in his life. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, a former Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank in the US. He also worked for our master, the European Central Bank, from 2002 to 2010.
Fine Gael had proposed setting Peter Southerland, another Golman Sachs boyo, on our Government. Maybe they will yet.
better go have a look for my cottage with added potato patch.. lets hope theres not another blight on the way eh..
fifitheminx: better go have a look for my cottage with added potato patch.. lets hope theres not another blight on the way eh..
Oh, I'm sure the billionaires who own Monsanto wouldn't do that to us .... again.
i really don't understand all the hostility towards europe, we chose to join the single currency and if it's going to work then i think our books should be open and our budgets subject to change if our partners in europe feel we are on the wrong path, at least that way if it does go wrong the blame lies at their feet for giving us the green light
as for our loss of sovereignty this is over played by some, im still as free as i was ten years ago.
as for our loss of sovereignty this is over played by some, im still as free as i was ten years ago.
fifitheminx: ( i promised someone id share this wherever i could)
Dear people who are supposed to represent us, The Irish People,
For the last while I have listened to people like Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy tell the people of the EU how they should run their countries. I may be mistaken but I'm pretty sure Merkel is German, elected by the German people to represent them and Sarkozy is French, elected by the French people for the same reason. These two people are telling Europe what they "need" to do and you as our elected officials are blindly accepting this.
As an Irish person I find this wholly unacceptable and to be honest it's insulting. We had a general election and I personally don't remember Merkel or Sarkozy being on my ballot paper. The EU is said to be made up of member states, I don't remember voting on anything that changed The Republic of Ireland from a country to a state but it's possible this happened before I was old enough to vote?
You, our elected officials have consistently let us, The Irish People, down and at this point I am truly disappointed in you, your actions and your treatment of the people. You speak of necessary cuts, yet it's always aimed at the people who can't afford to bear the brunt of them. You regularly fail to punish the actual people who brought us to this point. I am not a developer, nor have I bought any investments such as bonds, yet I as a taxpayer am now having to prop up banks and pay people who decided to take a gamble even though their gamble failed. I'm not a betting man but even I know that if your bet loses you do not get your money back. You do nothing while men like Sean Quinn transfer their wealth to other family members then claim bankruptcy. You refuse to provide the much needed funding to hire nurses, police and fire-fighters thereby letting the most vulnerable among our people suffer in the worst possible way.
You go out of your way to please these people in Europe even at the expense of the people who gave you their blessing to represent us. I watch as many of my friends are forced to leave this country to find work, yet you praise a drop in the unemployment rate. The rate hasn't dropped there's just less people to count. You, our elected men and women blame our current problems on the previous government and yes they did largely allow this to happen but in voting for a change we believed we would get one. We were mistaken as all we've gotten since February is people like Merkel and Sarkozy and the members of the EU/IMF using our country to avoid exposing their own failures. When I borrow money from a financial institution the only thing they ask of me is to make my repayments on time until the debt is repaid, they do not get to tell me how to live my life.
Dear people who are supposed to represent us, The Irish People,
For the last while I have listened to people like Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy tell the people of the EU how they should run their countries. I may be mistaken but I'm pretty sure Merkel is German, elected by the German people to represent them and Sarkozy is French, elected by the French people for the same reason. These two people are telling Europe what they "need" to do and you as our elected officials are blindly accepting this.
As an Irish person I find this wholly unacceptable and to be honest it's insulting. We had a general election and I personally don't remember Merkel or Sarkozy being on my ballot paper. The EU is said to be made up of member states, I don't remember voting on anything that changed The Republic of Ireland from a country to a state but it's possible this happened before I was old enough to vote?
You, our elected officials have consistently let us, The Irish People, down and at this point I am truly disappointed in you, your actions and your treatment of the people. You speak of necessary cuts, yet it's always aimed at the people who can't afford to bear the brunt of them. You regularly fail to punish the actual people who brought us to this point. I am not a developer, nor have I bought any investments such as bonds, yet I as a taxpayer am now having to prop up banks and pay people who decided to take a gamble even though their gamble failed. I'm not a betting man but even I know that if your bet loses you do not get your money back. You do nothing while men like Sean Quinn transfer their wealth to other family members then claim bankruptcy. You refuse to provide the much needed funding to hire nurses, police and fire-fighters thereby letting the most vulnerable among our people suffer in the worst possible way.
You go out of your way to please these people in Europe even at the expense of the people who gave you their blessing to represent us. I watch as many of my friends are forced to leave this country to find work, yet you praise a drop in the unemployment rate. The rate hasn't dropped there's just less people to count. You, our elected men and women blame our current problems on the previous government and yes they did largely allow this to happen but in voting for a change we believed we would get one. We were mistaken as all we've gotten since February is people like Merkel and Sarkozy and the members of the EU/IMF using our country to avoid exposing their own failures. When I borrow money from a financial institution the only thing they ask of me is to make my repayments on time until the debt is repaid, they do not get to tell me how to live my life.
The Republic Of Ireland is a state. It was declared in 1937, carried in a plebiscite by 685,105 votes in favour to 526,945 votes against, a majority of 158,160.
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Nonsense!!!
Ireland did everything the EU asked of it, Irish politicians were so busy being such a good little European they forgot how to be Irish. It was Germany and France that flooded Ireland with cheap money, hell, it was France that came up with the Idea of a single currency in the first place. And who was it that actually tested the EURO as a currency first, that is right, the little old, good little Europeans of Ireland.