16.01.2011
Last night Senator Sean Ross declared that he was running as an independent for Dublin south
He also expressed the hope to support other independents from other movements such as our Residents Movement for Political Change .This is great news and a welcome boost for us, now more than ever we need to organize and bring our message of change, real change to our fellow downtrodden citizens in Wicklow.
As Sean Ross says in this video clip we must help bring real change by putting new independent people with no affiliations to the current corrupt political parties, into the Dail
if we are going to deliver the necessary changes that will rid us of the deadly grip of cronyism that is strangling our nations attempts to advance into the modern age we must now grasp this opportunity with both hands and take it.
As I said in an earlier posting “You cannot have real change using the same old corrupt political parties the corrupt system has established! You must have new independent community movements that have no connections to the current corrupt political system and that have at their core values that will route out cronyism and gombeenism. For real change we must put new men and women who speak the truth and act exclusively in the interests of the people and not is the interests of outdated, clapped out political parties that have only looked after their own office holders by placing them in plumb jobs here in Ireland and elsewhere in the world”
In the following video clip Sean Ross expresses some of the very points I totally support and stand by and they would be core values for our movement .So if you agree with these points then please get involved and help us here in Wicklow to bring about real change in Wicklow politics.
With 20-30 new independents from all around the country we can at long last give the knockout blow to the corrupt political establishment that have destroyed our country and we will have a real chance to bring these criminals to justice ,isn’t it worth at least trying to achieve this ??
Please help and get involved
Thomas Clarke Chairperson
31.12.2010
09.12.2010
Is It Time to Reinvent Fairness? This December’s budget must be one of the most regressive budgets in the history of the Irish State. As a result of the proposed changes people on 85,000 to 250,000 Euro per annum will pay an additional 1-2% in tax. However, folks on 17,000 Euro per annum will pay an additional 12%. This policy is grossly unbalanced and unfair particularly when you realize that those in charge of the many 850 quangos that exist in the State are hopelessly overpaid.
For example: 1. Head of ESB: €752,568 2. Head of Dublin Airport Authority: €568,100 3.
Head of An Post: €500,000 4. Head of Coillte, the forestry commission €417,000 5.
Head of Voluntary Health Insurance: €412,003 6. Head of Bord Gais: €394,000 7.
Head of Bord na Mona (turf energy agency): €392,000 8. Head of RTE: (TV): €326,000 9.
Head of CIE (transport): €252,416 10. Head of Health Services Executive: €335,913
If these executive rates were modified and the 850 quangos abolished the savings would more that allow a faired distribution of the tax burden? Why was this not done? The current policy being adopted by Fianna Fail and the Greens seems to be pushing Irish politics further to the left as people are becoming increasingly shocked and disillusioned by the gross inequity of it all. If this trend continues, Labor, National Sinn Fein, the People before Profit Alliance, Independent Socialists and Non-Aligned Independents will form the next Irish government. This will render any real reform of the bloated State sector practically impossible and could herald more pain on an already beleaguered Irish middle class. Alternatives that could bring about a fairer taxation and a semi-state /public sector overhaul, plus banking restructure involving a new Irish commercial bank, enterprise development and focused retraining for the unemployed may not get the chance it so badly deserves.
We are ordinary parents, citizens, with no affiliations to any of the current political parties have formed “Residents Movement for Political Change” to bring about this badly needed change. Take the first step ,take action by going on to the web and check us out at www.thepressnet.com , e-mail 1machholz@gmail.com .Help give our people an alternative to the current twiddle dumb and twiddle Dee politicians
Join us now and help defend our country against the modern day financial terrorists.
Thomas Clarke
On the subject of ever higher Taxes please take the time and look at the video clips on “The theory of the Laffer Curve”
The current government’s policy of taxing workers and business up to the gills is only going to bring about less revenue I can see this already happening .I called a plumber two days ago to give me a quote on some pipe work I was thinking of getting done he quoted me two prices one cash price and one with a receipt needleless to say the cash price quote was a good 28 % cheaper now extrapolate that throughout the country. Taxing people so much doesn’t make sense ask Michael O Leary everybody knows he wants as much profit for Ryan air as possible but does he increases the prices he charges for flights no he is continues cutting his prices. That is why his company is one of the largest airlines in the world.
I rest my case on Taxes this budget is a disaster for Ireland
Our first public meeting
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Date 30.11.2010
The Government have successfully brought private toxic gambling debts on to the backs of the bewildered taxpayers of this country .Twenty months after the financial meltdown of the banking system of this country, there has been no prosecutions, in fact the guilty have been rewarded with golden handshakes, pensions and in some cases promotions . The crisis which brought the IMF to Ireland shows no signs of abating. As we speak the full extent of the problem has not been fully comprehended. There are in effect 6 levels to the “Bad Debts” fiasco. The following calculations are based on the latest central statistics office reports, in particular the section on external borrowings by Irish financial institutions.
1. Insolvent Property Development Lending (Cost Est.: 70 Billion EU.)
2. Unsustainable Annual Government Deficits (Cost Est: 60 Billion EU.)
3. Sovereign Debt Credit Rating Collapse (Cost Est: 20 Billion EU.)
4. Insolvent Consumer Debt Lending (Cost Est : 60 Billion EU.)
5. Insolvent Mortgage Debt Lending (Cost Est: 100 BillionEU.)
6. “Off Balance Sheet: Mark To Market” Asset Value Collapse (Cost Est: 300 Billion EU.)
Total Cost to Ireland: When you add the sovereign borrowing of 80 Billion and add the cash line of 165 Billion in the banking system that currently cannot be funded independently (because the banks are bust) the total is 610+80+165= 855 Billion Euro.. As of 28.11.2010 we now here it is going to be 5.8% to be charged, but we will have to give up 17.5 billion ourselves from our national pension fund! Was this meant to be the future, handed down to out progeny? Surely it is time, once and for all, for this shambles to stop. As of this morning we are no longer an Independent sovereign Nation State. The gangster’s responsible ride off into the sunset assured of their generous pensions and perks the ordinary people of Ireland face years of austerity and severs financial stress! We demand a referendum: We are ordinary parents, citizens, with no affiliations to any of the current political parties have formed “Residents Movement for Political Change” to bring about this badly needed change. Take the first step and take action by going on to the web and check us out at www.thepressnet.com , e-mail 1machholz@gmail.com .Help give our people an alternative to the current twiddle dumb and twiddle Dee politicians Join us now and help defend our country against the modern day financial terrorists.
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Thomas Clarke
Chairperson
18.11.2010
The IMF just doesn’t stroll into a country for a chat and a cup of tea no they are here because they are our last hope of getting funds.
So what happened to our finances since yesterday according to Brian Lenihan we did not need any help?
We were supposed to have enough funds to meet the countries needs and commitments up to the middle of next year remember? So Lenihan will have us believe he arrived this morning to find the IMF inside his office along with the Germans (that have been there since last week) anyway now that we all know that the IMF are here what are they going to do? My best guess is that they will be trashing out the conditions of a significant loan to the Irish State .The EU has already pumped 130 Billions into the toxic bankrupt banks and they cannot or won’t go any further without taking full control over the Banks at this stage because the derivates and other huge losses that still remain hidden from the public with the help from the Department of Finance are not been acknowledged. These losses must be in the tens of Billions and the Irish State does not have the earnings capacity to meet its obligations under the blanket guarantees given to them by the incompetent Irish government. The EU was not and is still not aware of the total figure that these losses will amount to and that is one of the reasons we have the IMF in the Department of Finance today they do not trust the figures coming from Cowen or lenihan and they have decided to come and check things out for themselves. So where does leave us? Well I expect to see the rest of the banks Nationalized with the funds made available to the Irish Government and the government will be at pains to tell us the gullible public that this is just a loan from friends and nothing has really changed except we are in a better financial position as a result of their tremendous efforts on our behalf. There will be no mention of the fact that we now must ask our minders for permission to go to the toilet and we are no longer a republic but a Nation of debt servicers enslaved to the same bondholders that caused this disaster in the first place .
15.11.2010
we shouldn’t have to wait for things get as bad as they are in this video clip
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For my reckoning, I would like to see the following at least considered and discussed;-
*Flexible age entry to third level education, taking away the emphasis on 18 year old entry, and new criteria developed for third level entry (bin the contradictory points system).
*Greater emphasis at third level on access, teaching how to learn (not just subjects), applied learning in the workplace, alternative learning styles, and employer integration.
*Removal of teachers who are not qualified at graduate level to teach the subjects they deliver at second level.
*Complete separation of the education system from the church.
*Third level institutions to be paid on the basis of the number of students they retain, not just register.
*Courses available at third level and through national training authorities to be based on regional / national skills audit to reflect industry / service needs (as decided by employers), NOT just to reflect the skill set of permanent lecturing staff – some of whose expertise has become redundant.
*Vocational guidance teachers in schools to be immediately replaced by professional recruiters and industry standard vocational profilers (from non-teaching back grounds).
*A grant system to allow local people to buy houses at reduced rates where elderly relatives live nearby. Being recently priced out of your own neighbourhood ultimately presents a massive cost to the state inn terms of future elderly care.
*The current civil & public service to be disbanded forthwith, and replaced by new publicly audited commercial organisations who guarantee to offer genuine value for money, and achieve genuine targets.
*Replacement of all staff and management in the public / civil service who are not qualified to hold their current positions.
*Recruitment / employment in the civil service to be based around a performance related, fixed term contract of 10 years (with the option to renew if performance has been credible).
*Massive investment in Irish SME’s, particularly manufacturing, to remove the vulnerability when global organisations decide to play monopoly.
*A fair and equal tax system that facilitates a greater distribution of wealth when we all perform well, and doesn’t just reply on middle income earners.
*Cessation of all union employee’s who also also sit on the boards of management of state and semi-state organisations, such cosy relationships represent conflict of interest is not in the public interest.
*Government fines on corporate companies who attempt to inflate fair price of fuel, commercial goods, vehicles, housing, and groceries (effectively a fair cap on capitalisation and profiteering and restriction of supply and demand pricing practices).
*Nationally agreed rates on professional services like health, dental, legal services, accountancy, and other consultants, that are realistic and proportionate to the service delivered, and the professional level of competency of that practitioner.
*Create a health service designed around the primary focus of education and prevention, rather than mere symptom management. Every citizen has the right to full diagnostic investigation that has the ability to detect physiological changes that may indicate future disease, rather than suffer and endure timely delays and limited options that only insure palliative care is the only option.
*Remove the GP as the sole route for seeking specialist medical care and out patient services. ‘The wait and see, while you pay another fee’ methodology is simply killing people who might otherwise of survived. GP’s referral protocols must be examined, and the right of appeal to non-medical authorities developed.
*Create a unified health service where a patients medical records is held in ONE comprehensive computer file. That the file is available anywhere in the country to reduce the massive expenditure every year spent on misdiagnosis, unnecessarily repeated tests, and people dying simply because medical practitioners were not in a position to view all the evidence on a patient in the one place.
*Create a financial system where money generated and made in Ireland, can not be so easily sent out to push up the economy of another country, particularly when that money comes from social welfare payments afforded by the Irish taxpayer.
*Recipients who seek government financial assistance do so on the basis of exchange for community service if previous tax contributions are insufficient.
*EEC welfare claimants should only receive payments exactly to the equivalence to payments from their home county, unless they have made sufficient contributions to the Irish economy to claim parity.
*Payments made to non-Irish workers should be made on the basis of the claimants home nation agreeing to compensate the Irish state to the same amount.
*All companies to be privately audited in their efforts to encourage workplaces free of bullying, harassment, inequality; and managements compliance with all government legislation (tax, environment, safety, employment rights etc.).
*Strict limits on bank loans to prevent repeated loans being granted before proportionate amounts are repaid.
The aim ultimately be to create a thriving society where everyone who contributes, will benefit. When more wealth is shared, more will be spent creating a buoyant economy. By ‘dis-empowering’ that tiny sector of Irish persons who enjoy standing and stamping on the shoulders of others, and, ‘empowering’ the career claimants who have learnt through disillusionment and micro-cultures of their ‘right’ to screw the system; the message is there is another way, we can dictate our lives, we have the right to speak and be heard, and we don’t have to swallow bull shit.
I am not a communist, a Marxist, or a anarchist, … I am just an average person who does my fair bit, pays my taxes, sees a sad decay in Irish life, and has a strong sense of justice and living in a ethical way. I’m tried of feeling angry, I’m drained of hearing (and being expected to believe) services and government bodies saying how marvellous they are as they stand up to their necks in shit. I’m afraid that the state we’re in has not been so drastic that the proposed solution will be any better than the problems Ireland already faces. More rhetoric of the same crap, same old lies, just different faces. I want to scream I am not an idiot, and how dare you treat me like one. Did you think I wouldn’t notice the slow release tactic of informing us of ‘someone else’s’ errors, or how the figures just don’t add up, or how the shady people responsible ominously appear to almost incestuously related and connected (and then magically relocated to another prominent position all geared up for their next attempt at fraud, deception, and incompetence on a biblical scale).
We have lost our virtues to stand up and question what is right, we have no honour by bearing witness to all that has happened and remaining passive,…. we simply endure shame, our greatest Catholic tradition.
Jelmpsych
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us and for taking time to put them down on paper I share most of you observations and the frustration of not knowing where to find the answers
But I do know if we remain silent nothing will change
Thank again for you contribution
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Derivatives…the next financial bomb!
Having looked at all the blogs and thought about and discussed all the problems on Ireland’s demise, I am convinced that no solution will be found until we first identify the enemies of the Irish State, ie a shit-list of those who by the actions and/or statements and/or their inflated and unjustified incomes.
Such people can then be marginalized unless and until they come good by ‘purging’ thermselves of their wrongdoings (including handing back ill-gotten gains and obscene incomes / fees etc. effectively stolen from the Irish people.
The list will include politicians, professionals and shysters or every hue. The blacklisting of these should be done as a first step so that anything they might have to say can be taken in context (or preferrably ignored) so that the process of repair can begin.
It seems clear that Ireland needs to re-establish its own currency, aligned to Sterling and to dis-engage from € and $ dependency. We need to engage strongly with China, India and the Nordic countries and rid ourselves of false friends in Europe and the slavery of globalization that is America.
We need to box clever in this however, taking a step by step approach.
Hi
Most Irish citizens desire change but that change will never come as long as the citizens wait for the political parties to act. Many of the so-called democracies in Europe, and the USA, are dysfunctional because of the political system which is in place. It wil fail every time because the very foundations on which it is based is merely a continuation of a feudal hierarchical power structure. The citizens have no power at all. They are just as oppressed as in feudal times. THIS ISN’T DEMOCRACY AT ALL. Just a pretence.
I have written a ‘book’ which explains just how dysfunctional the whole system is, from the first day of our ‘Independence’ to today. A very sorry tale. It is free. It is available to real online or to download. The web site is: http://www.IrishCitizen.ie and after reading it you will have some idea of what needs to be done to grab the Nation’s power from the greedy and incompetent politicians back where it should belong – in the hands of the citizens.
Lou Gogan