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Dear Boards.ie Politics thread readers,

I am trying to establish the concept of a Single Source of Economic Truth for Ireland and hoping to get www.acttogetherireland.com off the ground.

Brief summary of what it is about :

The Act Together Ireland / Single Source of Economic Truth for Ireland website is a platform to share information on an idea on how to make a sustainable improvement to the Irish economy and society.

The idea is for a citizen initiated, independent, constitutionally recognised body to develop broadcast and educate on a single simple dashboard of basic irrefutable metrics on the Irish economy for all Irish Citizens to understand and to hold their representatives to account by them.

It works on three simple principles:

1. That to go anywhere you must first understand where you are now.

2. That it’s a good idea to speak the same language to collectively describe & understand something.

3. That to hold someone to account you must measure their performance.
Currently we haven’t defined where we are. We haven’t decided where we want to go and how we are going to get there. Worse still we do not speak the same economic language.

Even if we were all speaking the same language not all citizens have the same understanding of our reality. There is no clear measurements on how well our representatives are performing and how they will perform.

We are a small well educated society if we act together and implement this quickly we will be profoundly better placed to tackle our current problem and leave a legacy of sustainable accountability and a society rooted in clarity and truth.

The Netherlands and the UK are already doing something similar www.rekenkamer.nl & http://transparency.number10.gov.uk/ . We need to put something like this in place ASAP.

Act Together Ireland is deliberately simple in scope but should drive some basic accountability and a better collective understanding of reality very quickly.

I would very much welcome any feedback you may have to offer.
Kind Regards

MRD2

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_citizens_initiative/?rc=fb

basicly the EU are trying to bury our petitioning rights in red tape and take away our right to making them act with as little as 1,000,000 signatures Europe wide!!

I've clicked the link and shared with 100's on my facebook so will you now take 1 minute to click the link above and make sure they know we value our right to petition!!

thanks in advance people

seamus wrote: »

Proof please.

by all means click the link and see for yourselves

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_citizens_initiative/?rc=fb

re. the astrix's in my op it was to try draw attention to it as it might be overlooked otherwise. I'm sure a certain amount of us are now afraid to look at any subject heading containing words like europe for example

March from Wood Quay Dublin to the GPO at 11am Saturday 27th

I am asking that the Irish people unite, as our forefathers did, and take to the streets at 11am Saturday 27th from Wood Quay Dublin, to voice our anger and concern over the actions of our politicians and what is happening to Ireland.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ing8xH3Qj-k&feature=player_embedded

Elevator wrote: »

I reckon this is the one to watch!!

I'm hitching up from Galway in true eco warrior style!

If i see any hitching eco warriors i will find a space:)

Benny-c wrote: »

ICTU organising a march against the cuts-they would prefer no cuts until their (Public Sector) members would suddenly realise in July/August that there is no money to pay them.

Makes perfect sence to me:D

I agree with your logic.
I hope people realize what Jim is saying is the truth and other action is taken..The real issue is the system imposed by the IMF and world bank can not work for the common people..Its legalized fraud and only the banking elite can benefit..

electrogrimey wrote: »

I don't understand why everyone's blaming the IMF. The IMF aren't the ones that caused this, it was FF. The IMF are offering a solution, and fair enough it's probably not the best solution, but again it's FF's fault by yet again making the wrong decision to go with them.

I really hope there's a big turnout at this march, although it won't do much if there's no specific agenda for it. Is it just a general dissatisfaction march?

+1
I'd encourage anyone to go regardless of who planned it, it's a chance for the nation to meet eachother and say "what the **** did we do with the last ten years, oh yeah, we borrowed money to build 300,000 houses we didn't actually need and made a few people millionaires."
Fianna Fail have being doing a lot of revisionism and so too have their critics. Lets not forget that the IMF were INVITED in, like Strongbow and I am a Norman descendent and I'm not ffing back to Denmark after 800 years!

New organisation campaigning for introduction of Mixed Member Proportional Representation and the abolishment of Seanad Eireann.

Hope to have the website up over the weekend.