Irish Spring?

CajunPenguin wrote: »

I just saw on Sky News that Egypt are voting in a proper election for the first time. Fair enough. But then they said in the 5,000 year history of this great nation they are deciding their own fate! I think we should say bollix to this and kick out FG, FF, SF, Labour and all those eejits out of the country and reorganize the whole country. What would you do if you were in charge of the transition? And do you think we should do something similar?
I would:
Start a peaceful rebellion, using civil disobedience and Gandhi's tactics. I would then reorganize the whole economy to start with. I would provide "free" water and cheaper electricity. Then I would install a better electric grid and excellent high-speed broadband across the country (if you think this is a silly idea it's been promised for years) and lower taxes for foreign industry, give incentives to high-tech companies and farmers who export a certain amount. Also I would keep the ones already in place, for films and computer companies. I would put more spending on culture, science and healthcare.The whole curriculum in schools, especially Irish would be re-written. To afford all these things, everything would be cut back on but in a different way. For example, workers on the electricity and internet and other services would be a mixture of the current workers and people off social welfare. Their salaries might not be very good but their benefits would be excellent, this would be the same for teachers and all public sector workers. Poor people would be given small jobs alongside them to start them off, and the empty apartments would be converted into space for the homeless, and all the people responsible for the recession would be put in prison and have their money confiscated, the Guards would be entirely restarted, I would make them armed and crimes would have worse punishments, murder and large scale drug offences would carry a mandatory life sentence and by life I mean in prison until they die.Once all the drug criminals are dealt with all drugs would be made legal and the more dangerous ones would b very expensive and carry high taxes, while softer drugs would be cheaper. Drugs would be sold by the government and maybe some strictly regulated dealers. Guns would become legal for self defence but the laws would be VERY strict only over 30's (maybe younger) could own them and anyone else can have a stun gun or non lethal weapons. Also only handguns would be allowed unless they have a good reason for having a larger gun, one per house and only a certain amount of ammo a year and only allowed to shoot someone if you or someone else is actually being physically attacked.
Do you agree? What changes would you make?

CajunPenguin wrote: »

I just saw on Sky News that Egypt are voting in a proper election for the first time. Fair enough. But then they said in the 5,000 year history of this great nation they are deciding their own fate! I think we should say bollix to this and kick out FG, FF, SF, Labour and all those eejits out of the country and reorganize the whole country. What would you do if you were in charge of the transition? And do you think we should do something similar?
I would:
Start a peaceful rebellion, using civil disobedience and Gandhi's tactics. I would then reorganize the whole economy to start with. I would provide "free" water and cheaper electricity. Then I would install a better electric grid and excellent high-speed broadband across the country (if you think this is a silly idea it's been promised for years) and lower taxes for foreign industry, give incentives to high-tech companies and farmers who export a certain amount.
Also I would keep the ones already in place, for films and computer companies. I would put more spending on culture, science and healthcare.The whole curriculum in schools, especially Irish would be re-written. To afford all these things, everything would be cut back on but in a different way. For example, workers on the electricity and internet and other services would be a mixture of the current workers and people off social welfare.

Their salaries might not be very good but their benefits would be excellent, this would be the same for teachers and all public sector workers. Poor people would be given small jobs alongside them to start them off, and the empty apartments would be converted into space for the homeless, and all the people responsible for the recession would be put in prison and have their money confiscated, the Guards would be entirely restarted, I would make them armed and crimes would have worse punishments, murder and large scale drug offences would carry a mandatory life sentence and by life I mean in prison until they die.
Once all the drug criminals are dealt with all drugs would be made legal and the more dangerous ones would be very expensive and carry high taxes, while softer drugs would be cheaper.
Drugs would be sold by the government and maybe some strictly regulated dealers. Guns would become legal for self defence but the laws would be VERY strict only over 30's (maybe younger) could own them and anyone else can have a stun gun or non lethal weapons. Also only handguns would be allowed unless they have a good reason for having a larger gun, one per house and only a certain amount of ammo a year and only allowed to shoot someone if you or someone else is actually being physically attacked.
Do you agree? What changes would you make?

CajunPenguin wrote: »

What did I do wrong?