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You Control Ireland, What Would You Do?
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28-07-2010 6:08pm#1
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2) Dissolve the military.
We're neutral so no need for an army as such will give extra funding for the new Educational system. Current personnel will be integrated into the Gardai with other area's of qualifications being placed in their particular careers outside the military.
No guns, no weapons, no tanks, no planes, no aggression - Just Peace and Love.
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I_AmThe_Walrus wrote: »2) Dissolve the military.
We're neutral so no need for an army as such will give extra funding for the new Educational system. Current personnel will be integrated into the Gardai with other area's of qualifications being placed in their particular careers outside the military.
No guns, no weapons, no tanks, no planes, no aggression - Just Peace and Love.
While i like your ideas,where would they work then?0 -
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Funny this is the second time this one has come up this evening
How would you enforce such a contract ?
Are you planning to provide some work for unemployed bricklayers ?
Well, what would your suggestions be, Mike? Remember, this is a two way street...find a solution.
If we put bricklayers to one side for a moment and concentrate on medicine for example...a graduated student must remain in Ireland for an amount of time to work in the Health Sector in this country. I was in the Mater a few months ago and I didn't see one Irish member of staff there, except the receptionist, of course.
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While i like your ideas,where would they work then?
That can be your job.
ballsymchugh wrote: »do we have to learn finnish? is fearr liom an Gaeilge.
Only if you want to.
Public hangings for corrupt politicans, bankers, developers, and their likes.
Absolutely. A full investigation bureau set up to investigate tribunals and the whole bank fiasco with lengthy jail times for guilty parties.Thank you
Can you get diabetes from Minstrels?
Can I be the Minstrel of Confectionary and Diabetes?
Only if we can pay you in Candy...
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I_AmThe_Walrus wrote: »Only if we can pay you in Candy...
Throw in petrol money and insulin and it's a deal0 -
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So that sick students would be doubly disadvantaged ?
Yep the British experience with GCSE coursework has been completly free of any downside ?!?!?!
Students with genuine illnesses will be accommodated for. Have you a solution to better a well oiled machine? Tell us.CokaColumbo wrote: »Knock down the Spire and in its place erect a 400 ft dildo.
We're not going "all Dutch" just yet, but you can be in charge of public decoration if you like. :cool:Lando Griffin wrote: »Buy Shamrock Rovers and make them a powerhouse of Europeian football.
Yes, big investments into our sports teams and stadia with a group set-up to negotiate TV time for all clubs.
Perhaps, and it'll be interesting in hearing your opinions: What about turning the GAA professional at Inter-County level? Re-structuring of the competitions etc.0 -
1. A complete overhaul of the planning system & a complete rethink of zoning policies.
2. Major investment into public health & education systems.
3. Introduce third level fees for those who can afford them & scrap their grants.
4. A complete overhaul of the Social Welfare system as it is outdated & unfair.
5. Get rid of unvouched expenses for all politicians, reduce their expenses severely and reduce their wages to match the average industrial wage.
6. Overhaul the Public Sector - get rid of the deadweight, introduce performance related wages, abolish "jobs for life" & employ all staff on contract basis which would be subject to bi-annual reviews.
7. Scrap the plans for Metro North.
8. Major investment into the roads network in the West of Ireland.
9. Take the running of all schools out of the hands of the Church & put them into the care of the State. Also make all schools non-demoninational, with the option of extra curriculum teaching of all religions for those who want it.
10. Have a referendum on the Irish language to decide on whether to keep Irish as an official language. This would decide if we could scrap the grant system to Gealtacht areas & make Irish an optional language subject in schools.
11. Employ a team of the best economists to try & figure a way of making Ireland a more competitive country. (I know my own limits!)
12. Introduce a tax on unhealthy foods & use it to subsidise healthy foods.
14. Increase spending on community facilities for sports.
15. Introduce a scheme to help people in severe debt.
That'd be what I would do in the first week. 0 -
Dunno why people on this seem to think that pointing out a flaw in someones proposal (even where one doesnt have an issue with the overall intent behind such a proposal) confers on one an obligation to come up with something better.I_AmThe_Walrus wrote: »Students with genuine illnesses will be accommodated for. Have you a solution to better a well oiled machine? Tell us.
Have the LC exam twice a year so people would have the option of sitting/repeating it in December or Junestarbelgrade wrote: »Have a referendum on the Irish language to decide on whether to keep Irish as an official language. This would decide if we could scrap the grant system to Gealtacht areas & make Irish an optional language subject in schools.
Not disagreeing with the measures you propose here but the assertion that the current constitutional status of Irish requires these things is not correct.0 -
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I_AmThe_Walrus wrote: »2) Dissolve the military.
We're neutral so no need for an army as such will give extra funding for the new Educational system. Current personnel will be integrated into the Gardai with other area's of qualifications being placed in their particular careers outside the military.
No guns, no weapons, no tanks, no planes, no aggression - Just Peace and Love.
Eh, you needed the army to execute your coup and presumably would need it to protect your dictatorship.
Probably best not to tell the Commanding Military General about step 2.0 -
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Not disagreeing with the measures you propose here but the assertion that the current constitutional status of Irish required these things is not correct.
I'd say that the current constitution would have been pissed on by now. I guess, we're starting from scratch so buckle yourself in...it's going to be some ride (literally).starbelgrade wrote:A complete overhaul of the planning system & a complete rethink of zoning policies.
Introduce a tax on unhealthy foods & use it to subsidise healthy foods.
Very interesting.
The planning and zoning policies are a main concern. I particularly was intrigued by your food suggestions. 0 -
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Ok here goes...Remember its my first day on the job so go easy on me!!
My programme for governement would include as main priorities...
1) Moron tax for anyone who uses phrases like "mandate to govern", "going forward" or "these recessionary times"
2) Homophobic tax - €2000 for any guy who touches off another guy accidentally in a nightclub. Also €1000 tax for the "touched" guy for not getting out of the way
3) Trouser tax for girls - €100 for a full length trousers. This halves to €50 for a skirt. The shorter the skirt, the bigger discounts available. Tax works other way around for girls who get less than 6 marks out of ten
4) Further to the previous step - A ratings system for girls out of ten approved by government. FYI If your reading this, check between your legs. If you dont spot a rod there, your probably a 7. The tax take from the previous 3 steps will fund the ratings system, perhaps even introduce quality control
5) Noel Dempsey Dartboards for every pub in the country to regenerate visits to the pub. Anyone who gets his eye gets a "get out of jail" ticket to the pub.
6) Introduce "Get out of jail free" tickets for smokers who are allowed one night of smoking inside for this ticket. Incentives like #5 above to earn said tickets
7) Replace Sharon Ni Bhaolean with Claire Tully. Sharons not had that same sparkle in her eye as she stares at me all flirtingly since she had the kids.
8) Introduce entrance music for myself - well start with this baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-64CaD8GXw
9) Make it illegal for the public to not have at least one soliloquouy per day to reflect on the happenings and inner thoughts in their mind a la this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw9UJPgGoDw
10) Introduce top 9 lists to replace top 10 lists for slackers like myself who cant think of a 10th policy
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Next, the Healthcare System needs to be turned on it's head, using the French model. WHO has placed France as the best Health system in the world. Free universal healthcare with latest technology and equipment to diagnose and treat illnesses of every distinction. Foreign nationals flying in for treatment will pay though.
Healthcare will be funded by tax on liberal's recreations.
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Well, I can't say the same about St. Vincent's - the only non-Irish person I saw, on a recent trip through several OP departments, was a medical student from Malaysia who sat in on one examination. Pretty good, I thought she was.I_AmThe_Walrus wrote: »If we put bricklayers to one side for a moment and concentrate on medicine for example...a graduated student must remain in Ireland for an amount of time to work in the Health Sector in this country. I was in the Mater a few months ago and I didn't see one Irish member of staff there, except the receptionist, of course.
Me? I'd stop paying students to study Orts, Media, Sociology, or any other "soft" subjects that don't contribute to the Irish economy. You want to write yet another history of the Potato Famine or an analysis of Joyce's Ulysses, you can pay for it - we don't need any more, thanks. You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I_AmThe_Walrus wrote: »
The planning and zoning policies are a main concern. I particularly was intrigued by your food suggestions.
Unhealthy eating & obesity is a major concern in almost all 1st World countries, and will ultimately be seen in the huge rise in type 2 diabetes over the coming decades.
The proliferation of modified corn based products, the control of the food chain supply by multi-corporates & the practices they use from exploiting farmers to producing, essentally crap food products have all lead us to this point.
This has had & will continue to have a huge detremental effect on both our health & on the environment unless something is done about it.
Something is fundamentally wrong when a global corporation like McDonalds can produce a hamburger for less than the price of a head of broccoli. It affect us all, but even more so, people from the lower end of the socio-economic scale.
In the States, it's estimated that one in three of all children born after the year 2000, will develop diabetes due to poor diet & two out of three children from poorer families will develop it.
Some might say that this is just an American phenomenon, but it's a blind assumption.
It's everyone's own personal responsibility to eat healthily, but it should be the government's responsibility to ensure that there is proper education & funding towards eating locally produced, fresh & good quality foods.
At present the Irish government have Bord Bia - but it's a joke of an operation. The Bord Bia symbol can be put on food from anywhere in the world - basically any food that is manufactured or processed here - so as a sign of quality or "Irishness", it is a major fail.
The supermarket giants are also pushing small, local farmers out of business by making them supply homogomised food at below cost production, which is not just bad for the farmers, but severely reduces customer choice.
Increased taxes on unhealthy foods which could be put towards subsidising healthy ones would go some way to re-addressing the balance.0 -
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