Ways to save money to help Ireland...

Worztron

Here are mine, please feel free to add yours.

1. The only drink for prisoners should be water.
2. Stop adding fluoride to tap water.

biko

Replace Gardai with Judge Dredd

Worztron

biko wrote: »

Replace Gardai with Judge Dredd

I like it.
Better yet, use RoboCop.

Refugee from RealLife

Kill everyone that is or is over 65.

yom 1

Worztron wrote: »

1. The only drink for prisoners should be water.

Never mind drinks.........I was in Musgraves earlier and they had huge stack of easter eggs marked "Cloverhill Prison....For Collection"

So I'd start with no easter eggs for prisoners!!!:eek:

phill106

To go with the only water thing for prisoners they should have big huge prisons with very little freedom or facilities for the prisoners. A bunk a sink a toilet, thats it.
If they want more, they can enter....DEATH RACE!

Orando Broom

yom 1 wrote: »

Never mind drinks.........I was in Musgraves earlier and they had huge stack of easter eggs marked "Cloverhill Prison....For Collection"

So I'd start with no easter eggs for prisoners!!!:eek:

How else would the paedos attract the childer? Jeeze!!!

FatherLen

we could get our prisoners to race around the prison in big fast cars with guns and video the whole thing, stream it live on the interweb and profit!!!


we could call it PRISON OF RACING DOOM!!

CreepingDeath

yom 1 wrote: »

Never mind drinks.........I was in Musgraves earlier and they had huge stack of easter eggs marked "Cloverhill Prison....For Collection"

That's ridiculous.

How are the prisoners going to get out to collect them ?

Dravokivich

Refugee from RealLife wrote: »

Kill everyone that is or is over 65.

Logan's Run ey?

Superbus

Space programme.

There's no debt on Neptune.

ascanbe

Grow some balls.
Stop giving all our money away/spiraling further and further into astronomical debt in order to pay off a debt that our European 'partners', if they feel that it's essential to bail out bankers/gamblers, are at least equally culpable for.
It's really quite simple.

Worztron

ascanbe wrote: »

Grow some balls.
Stop giving all our money away/spiraling further and further into astronomical debt in order to pay off a debt that our European 'partners', if they feel that it's essential to bail out bankers/gamblers, are at least equally culpable for.
It's really quite simple.

Yes. The moral thing to do is burn ALL bond holders. The general Irish public will suffer for generations otherwise. Our welfare is far more important than that of those faceless millionaires/billionaires.

rednik

All Church collections to go to Revenue.

sarumite

120% tax rates

themadchef

Refugee from RealLife wrote: »

Kill everyone that is or is over 65.

Super. Can we have the flashing thing on palm of our hands that prove it's out time to go?

Also: Force pill on anyone under 25 and neuter over 35's. Max one kid per household, and teach us all to speak Chinese.

WallyGUFC

rednik wrote: »

All Church collections to go to Revenue.

No church collections at all!

Seloth

Tie loads of balloons around and make Ireland float!That way we can go to the tourists and steal other countries light!The only way we give it back is if they pay us muhahaha!

ejmaztec

yom 1 wrote: »

Never mind drinks.........I was in Musgraves earlier and they had huge stack of easter eggs marked "Cloverhill Prison....For Collection"

Just think what you could have done to those eggs. The prison population would have dropped in no time.

RhubarbCrumble

ejmaztec wrote: »

Just think what you could have done to those eggs. The prison population would have dropped in no time.

My friend works in Musgraves and he was talking about this the other day. Apparently the prisoners are buying them to give to their kids when they visit at Easter. Same with the selection boxes at Christmas.

ejmaztec

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

My friend works in Musgraves and he was talking about this the other day. Apparently the prisoners are buying them to give to their kids when they visit at Easter. Same with the selection boxes at Christmas.

That's that plan down the crapper.:(

Naikon

Seize ALL church assets and sell them off. Want to practice Religion? You can do it under your own watch.

Orando Broom

Until Ireland actually starts producing large scale manafacturing goods itself, it will always be at the bwcka nd call of the whims of international markets.

South Korea in the 1960's had the same GDP as Afghanistan. Look at it today.

My solution for Ireland.... Shut down all the science departments in, certainly, Trinity, UCD and DIT and DCU, amalgamate them, open a HUGE MIT esque campus on the western edge of Dublin. give it the brief to create a situation (among other things) where by they create a raw material that Ireland can use for manufacturing. Off the top of my head example:a new type of polymer that could be used in place of steel and would have applications in heavy industry. I am not au fait with the ins and outs of this but just take it as an example don't deconstruct the point, it's just a loose example That would be a start.

The government needs to pull Ireland away from the hind tit of multinationals and start creating multinationals of our own.

Orando Broom

Naikon wrote: »

Seize ALL church assets and sell them off. Want to practice Religion? You can do it under your own watch.

To who? Oh, developers, you say. To build??? Apartments? That is genius.

All they need now is a bank willing to lend absurdly extravagant sums to fund this caper.

Dangerous Man

CreepingDeath wrote: »

That's ridiculous.

How are the prisoners going to get out to collect them ?

They'll just go after they're finished with their playstation3 and heroin. They'll ask for temporary leave / compassionate leave / easter egg leave and go pick them up then. And, while they're at it, they'll probably rape somebody / rob something / assault somebody, get arrested, go to court, say 'I'm off de druuugs boss" go back to prison and get a suspended sentence. Probably. Set fire to scummers.

Better means testing for social welfare.

Prioritising things better in the budget (To this day I don't know how the spire was ever justified, and that was before the recession). One pet peeve of mine is when the government puts funding into things like expensive art installations. I'd love them if we could afford them but we can't. Far better to put a small bit of funding into a community based project for public art, where neighbourhoods/interested parties can come together and do something themselves for far less money. It's more personal and will encourage both community spirit and a sense of pride in the area/the work accomplished. The government is acting like a kept wife, who when being told by her husband that he has lost his job, doesn't realise she needs to start shopping at lidl.

Waste management. I don't just mean bins and sewage, I mean the general habit of waste that is rife throughout both the government and the country.

jakdelad

bring over 200,000 girls from the far east to marry rural batchlor farmers
make these miserable hoors spend a bit more money by way of weddings etc

lets smarten up the gene pool
and breed out the red hair and freckles
and boost the economy
and in 20 years time
instead of a grunt did ya get diesel or petrol in the shop
you might just get civility??? like good morning sir /madam

mari2222

tax of 1c per post on discussion forums?

galwayrush

sarumite wrote: »

120% tax rates

On bankers bonuses.

upandcumming

jakdelad wrote: »

bring over 200,000 girls from the far east to marry rural batchlor farmers
make these miserable hoors spend a bit more money by way of weddings etc

lets smarten up the gene pool
and breed out the red hair and freckles
and boost the economy
and in 20 years time
instead of a grunt did ya get diesel or petrol in the shop
you might just get civility??? like good morning sir /madam

Goodbye.

For Forks Sake

Seloth wrote: »

Tie loads of balloons around and make Ireland float!That way we can go to the tourists and steal other countries light!The only way we give it back is if they pay us muhahaha!

This is the only sensible idea so far.

wiger toods

Time to start wiping our holes with regular toilet paper again, instead of E50 notes.
The tiger is well and truly dead now i suppose

blackwolf

We could sell naming rights for the counties

landsleaving

wiger toods wrote: »

Time to start wiping our holes with regular toilet paper again, instead of E50 notes.
The tiger is well and truly dead now i suppose

Just twenties then? Ugh, they're like sandpaper.

I think we should just start dressing up as leprechauns, get the American tourists in. Then sell them all manner of cheap spire ornaments. That's how the French economy works, miniature Eiffel Towers - anyone who's studied economics doesn't know that!

wiger toods

Seloth wrote: »

Tie loads of balloons around and make Ireland float!That way we can go to the tourists and steal other countries light!The only way we give it back is if they pay us muhahaha!

'For 100 milllllllllllion dollars'

#Puts little finger to edge of mouth#

For Forks Sake

blackwolf wrote: »

We could sell naming rights for the counties

I'd say Michael Lowry has started on this already.

Louth will be sponsored by Harp. Or Ivomec. There's not much difference, truth be told.

landsleaving

blackwolf wrote: »

We could sell naming rights for the counties

Dublin shall henceforth be known as 'No Nonsesne Car Insurance'

wiger toods

landsleaving wrote: »

Just twenties then? Ugh, they're like sandpaper.

I think we should just start dressing up as leprechauns, get the American tourists in. Then sell them all manner of cheap spire ornaments. That's how the French economy works, miniature Eiffel Towers - anyone who's studied economics doesn't know that!

I know! awful!
Ever try a E100 note though? that was smooth.
How i miss the good old days:(

WallyGUFC

Galway would definately get a decent price by selling it's name to a shipping company.

superelliptic

Orando Broom wrote: »

Until Ireland actually starts producing large scale manafacturing goods itself, it will always be at the bwcka nd call of the whims of international markets.

South Korea in the 1960's had the same GDP as Afghanistan. Look at it today.

My solution for Ireland.... Shut down all the science departments in, certainly, Trinity, UCD and DIT and DCU, amalgamate them, open a HUGE MIT esque campus on the western edge of Dublin. give it the brief to create a situation (among other things) where by they create a raw material that Ireland can use for manufacturing. Off the top of my head example:a new type of polymer that could be used in place of steel and would have applications in heavy industry. I am not au fait with the ins and outs of this but just take it as an example don't deconstruct the point, it's just a loose example That would be a start.

The government needs to pull Ireland away from the hind tit of multinationals and start creating multinationals of our own.

I thought that this was going to be a rant, or a take the piss post, but I have to say, thats actually a pritty inspiring idea!

As well as manufacturing R&D, I think more emphasis should be placed in making Ireland a proper technology center, on a par with the US, or India, and start coming up with new ideas and trends in IT. We already have more than enough software developers, infrastructure engineers, and electrical engineers, and yet most of the new discoveries, or trend setting ideas come from the states or Japan. (For example, is there any reason why Facebook couldnt have been developed by an Irish guy?) If we plug the brain drain and keep our experties here, we could do some amazing things. For example, Ireland has a number of Individuals who are highly regarded in the IT Network Security industry. With a little government backing, we could become a leader in this area, we certantly have the man power.

On a personal note, I know that the recession is a difficult time, and people are p*ssed, but I am glad to see the back of the many negative, cynical attitudes that prevailed over the last 10 years, and seeing people concerned less with how to feather their own nest, and now engaging in serious discussions about how to make this country better. We need more of this kind of thinking!

Oranage2

Slavery!!!

you lose your job - you then have 48 hours to secure a new one or else you a forced into slavery -


this will save the state a fortune and look at empires that had slaves -

Roman empire - greatest empire of all time
British empire - Sun never set
USA - The worlds biggest economy now
China - build the only man made thing you can see from space

For Forks Sake

Oranage2 wrote: »

China - build the only man made thing you can see from space

A great bunch of lads

skelliser

some good ideas here epecially the MIT thing and the RandD focus.

But sadly no one in a position of power wants to listen or has the balls to take on an idea like that.

Unfortunatly our leaders are going to procceed as planned and try and pay off this debt and the bondholders. There will be no burning of any bondholders.
The gov will continue to create, increase and consolidate all taxes in a fruitless attempt to extract as much money from us as possible to pay this "debt".

Leaving this country the basket case of europe, a wasteland.


Happy Easter!!

superelliptic

Heres a small thing to put money into irish businesses - get the government to ensure that all state web services and sites are hosted by irish hosting companies. Fine Gael's site is currently hosted on a US server. Why not get a petition going to have them move all state sites onto an Irish owned hosting service?

orourkeda

Naikon wrote: »

Seize ALL church assets and sell them off. Want to practice Religion? You can do it under your own watch.

People do.

They're not compelled to donate to church collections

orourkeda

superelliptic wrote: »

Heres a small thing to put money into irish businesses - get the government to ensure that all state web services and sites are hosted by irish hosting companies. Fine Gael's site is currently hosted on a US server. Why not get a petition going to have them move all state sites onto an Irish owned hosting service?

Then why sell state assets to foreign companies? Isn't this more of the same.

oppenheimer1

sarumite wrote: »

120% tax rates

I can only give 110%;)