General Election 2007 -- What's the most important issue for you?

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A and E,actually the whole health service!

Anto McC wrote:

A and E,actually the whole health service!

A and E is only for sick people and they're too ill to vote!

Transport infrastructure improved outside of Dublin. Investment in rural areas increased (just services stuff). Fine Gael losing, badly.

That's what I want from the next election tbh.

Healthcare is a blackhole in which to throw money into. It requires a lot more than just a boost to funding to make a difference there. You can build a new 1000 bed hospital, but you have to wait for the staff to be trained before you can open it...

Affordable Housing

Traffic (Toll on cars entering the city center's)

Scumbags (kill them all in a big bonfire)

There's a number of issues that I will be questioning any canvasser that comes to my door about:

VRT: Get rid of it. We're supposed to have free movement of people and goods within the EU. They wasted no time in elimenating things that benefited the taxpayer in any tiny way, such as airport duty free shops within the EU. I'm sure they'll replace it with some other tax to recoup the revenue, but why should motorists bear the burden? Far more money is collected from them in the various motoring related taxes and levys than is spent on our roads.

Stamp duty: Why is it that the government rakes in about €80K in 'stamp duty' (what-fukking-ever) on the sale of each house? I sure can't afford a place of my own.

Justice: Why is our system so retarded? It needs modernisation. Tougher sentences for repeat offenders rather than the stupid revolving door style prisons we have now. Get rid of the stupid wigs and robes while yer at it.

The health service: Throwing bags of money at it clearly hasn't solved anything, i think its time to cut through the beaurocracy and get some new management in.

Accountability for politicians: When government departments blow millions of euros of taxpayers money on ridiculous wastes of money (see the whole e-voting machines and health service computer fiasco, many more), people should be accountable for it. The same goes for infrastructure projects that seem to have this hilarious habit of finishing at a cost of about 4 times the initial quoted cost.

netwhizkid wrote:

1) Keeping Fianna Fail and the Pd's out of Government.

2) We have the worst health care system in Europe, this needs to be improved massively.

3) Stopping all forms of Immigration into Ireland, our country is being swamped by all sorts.

4) Direct Fibre to the home, we need broadband :- Nationalise Eircom

5) End VRT, Cut Fuel taxes and reduce Motor Taxation, end all road tolls.

6) End privatisation, Re-Nationalise formally privatised companies and successful private ones like Kerry Group, use their profits to fund more infrastructure, High Speed rail linking all our cities and a national non-tolled motorway network.

7) Increase taxes for those earning over €60,000+ to 60% eliminate lower earners from the Tax bracket, cut VAT and use profits from Nationalised Industry to run the country. Curtail Diplomatic Relations with the USA as long as George W. Bush is in office, Cut all Diplomatic relation with Israel and refuse to recognise it. Recognise the Hamas Led Palestinian Authority.

8) Greater links with Great Britain, force a United Ireland.

9) Ban the Fianna Fail and Progressive Democrats Party, try them for corruption and re-introduce Captial Punishment and make it applicable in cases of corruption. Repatriate 120,000 Polish home to Poland.

10) Reform the Irish Constitution banning free market politics and gradually phasing out Capitalism.

At the start of this I thought you were being serious/crazy but on reading down through points 7 onwards you are obviously just messing... please tell me you are just messing.

Just on the off chance that you aren't some joker I'd like to pick you up on a few points.
1) Do you realise that if we stopped all immagration, not only would we have riots within our country but we would also be killing our economy. The Irish economy needs upwards of 50,000 economic migrants to fill vacant jobs in our economy.

2) Now even though I do agree with a more structured tax system, ie. the rich paying a higher level of tax then the poor, I think 60% will just lead to the rich leaving the country. Would you stay here if everytime you earned 10 euro you gave six away?
As for using the profits from our newly nationalised industries to run the country, well first of all how do you know they are even going to make a profit and even if they do, I cant see the profit coming anywhere close to the levels required to run a country. Stereotypically the main problems with nationalised companies are that they are unefficiant and can lead to a burden on the tax payer.

3) Curtailing diplomatic relations with America is just idiotic, I am a firm believer that the world would be a better place if W just choked on another prezzle but this time it wouldnt come out of his throat and kill him. But if the Irish government curbed diplomatic relations with his regime it could lead to disaster for the economy. The majority of TNC's in Ireland are in American hands and we need to keep them in Ireland otherwise it could lead us back to the 1980's when nobody had any money.

4) Refuse to recognise Israel but instead recognise the Hamas Led Palestinian Authority, ahh and what would be the point of this?

5)Greater links with Great Britain, force a United Ireland, please explain to me how greater links with GB would force a united ireland.

6) Ban the Fianna Fail and Progressive Democrats Party, try them for corruption and re-introduce Captial Punishment and make it applicable in cases of corruption: So kill all corrupt politicians? Well I'm afriad we might not have any left after all that killin'.

7)Repatriate 120,000 Polish home to Poland: and who is going to pay for all those airplanes :rolleyes:

10) Reform the Irish Constitution banning free market politics and gradually phasing out Capitalism. While we are at it we should scrap all industry and engage in some communal farming....


I find it strange because I think we share a lot of the same views, I think bush is an arse as do you, I also feel that the Palestinians have been disgustingly hard done by by the Israelis and I would also agree with a more structured tax system. Oh and I'm also 19, I suppose the difference is I havent been done out of a menial job by some blasted Poles!

You are coming across as a leftist member of the KKK.
Get rid of all the unclean foreigners and lets share all our wealth amongst ourselves....