Enda Kenny will change our country for better not worse
2011 will be the year Fianna Faíl lose the people of this county. They will leave it in a state of peril and her people in morbid terror and chaos. The General Election shall take place during this extensively busy year too. Every party will be putting their leader to the people in a bid to become Taoiseach. However there is only one true candidate for this position.
Enda Kenny.
He has led Fine Gael for 8 years now and is the most senior serving member of Dáil Éireann with 35 years of public service this current Dáil term. The people for far too long have judged our leaders on personality and looks. This is not a puppet show or soap opera nor is it an entertainment magazine for the people of this country to gaze into every once in awhile to get their few laughs or dead pan excitement from. This country is at the mire of total and complete economic ruin which all stems from electing a party solely based on personality and looks, and look where we have ended up.
- College fees effectively being imposed on the youth of our society
- 500,000 people out of work
- Our independence being thrown down the toilet as the IMF were invited in by Fianna Faíl.
- Thousands upon thousands leaving our shores in search of work
- Our political system in chaos with corruption rife in the Séanad especially
But worst of all, our people have lost hope. The single crime, and I don’t apologise for the word, crime, of making our people feel as if there is nothing they can do to change it.
Well there is. You can send a message to the people who have let you down most. Enda Kenny has shown that he really wants to be your Taoiseach and it is your Taoiseach, let no one fool you of that. You pledge them with the honour of serving their country by electing them to that position. Kenny doesn’t need to be a media savy to be a good Taoiseach. I don’t want some Hollywood B-List movie actor coming out and pretending all is well with a few soundsbites here and there. I want my Taoiseach to be honest with me and tell it as it is.
Enda has achieved this and been honest with us. He has told us it will take long to fix this mess, he has told us what he plans to do with the country from the budget to the economy to jobs to health to education. He has provided a vast amount of information to the public because he doesn’t want to fool you. Honesty is his policy and it’s the best policy. For too long have we been misled by Fianna Faíl over this economic crisis and for too long have we just point blank not been led by any of the other parties with no policies at all. Labour are the biggest culprits of this and Eamon Gilmore is essentially Bertie Ahern just decent.
No policy and no substance however.
As a young person, I really believe Enda Kenny can be a truly great Taoiseach. He has my confidence because unlike many other politicians I believe what he is saying and I believe that he really wants to make a difference.
As a collective we lack courage and confidence in what we really believe in. We need to stand by what we believe and stand by what our convictions are.
I believe Enda has done this, I believe Enda is doing this and I believe Enda will continue to do this.
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Dale McDermott
A Failure Idealised by the Moronic
IN THESE hard-pressed economic conditions, we have the left wing of th political spectrum declaring war on Irish Democracy and freedom. Last Tuesday evening, Leinster House which is the heart of Irish Democracy was surrounded by a militant and aggressive collage of Communists, Anarchists and far left Republicans. They attempted to gain access to the grounds of Leinster House by storming the gate surrounding the compound. A complete and total feeble demonstration and is an attack on our democratic system.
But this is just what these people want. They want to remove the current elected representative system of parliament and want to instill a Communist State and a regime being ruled using an iron fist. Any such system would be a complete disaster for the Irish State and would be a failure to the country’s founding fathers. Communism simply doesn’t work. It is the essence of failure, corruption, fatigue, moral demoralisation in which no one succeeds apart from the higher people in control and almost everyone fails. I have always asked people to point out one county in history that is a successful communist country and I always get the same answer, Cuba. Cuba is a state in which you are told you are happy, you are told the country is in a good state and you are told you are doing well in life. Freedom does not exist in this “ socialist utopia “. An example of this failed state is the fact that critical journalism is not allowed. Cuba has the second highest number of journalists in prison in the world with China being the first. An indictment on this carcinogenic regime which does not even allow its people to speak or criticise.
There is no such thing as a successful socialist/communist country. It is entirely fiction. But of course it is easy for these people in this country to extend an invitation to Mr. Communism to pay us a visit. It is easy because it is easy for them to say. Champaign Socialists want this such as the Trade Union leaders to name but a few because they can afford to say it as they have no idea of what they represent.
They want no incentive to succeed in life, they want no reason to excel in your education and they want no reason to so initiative because everyone would be paid the same wage. People are paid according to their worth and how much you are valued based on your skills. A doctor should not be paid the same as a street cleaner as the doctor went to college for 7 years and obtained these skills through merit and hard work. Why would he bother if he/she would not be rewarded for his/her hard efforts.
There is no place for socialism in this society. There is no place for socialism in Ireland.
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Dale McDermott
Jack O'Connor, Socialist on a Capitalist Wage
THERE are a number of people responsible for the worst economic downfall in the history of the Irish State. The Fianna Fáil Government would be a very obvious choice, but then again for obvious reasons. They pumped up the entirely unsustainable Property Bubble for a decade with tax breaks and cosy relationships with developers. But there is another group of people responsible for this debacle and they go by the name of Public Sector Trade Unions. For years people could not tell if it where the Government governing or if it was the Trade Unions. Every year, a bunch of un-elected fat cats would march into Government Buildings and effectivly tell the Taoiseach what pay increase their members would get this year. Benchmarking was the very inovative failure idealised by the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, a man who is at the top of the list for people responsible for ruining the lives of over 450,000 men and women on the Live Register. Benchmarking was simply a disaster, yet the Govermment where the lackies to Jack O’Connor & Co. They “negotiated” wage increases six times above the rate of inflation year on and year out. Any person on the street will tell you about how farcical that sounds and how unsustainable it is, or was.
But now, the party is over. The economy is in tatters and Ireland is on the verge of going bust. The situation is very much dire and we are borrowing 500 million euro a week just to keep Ireland Inc. afloat and above board. This is again another unsustainable situation and cut-backs, however severe must be made. But there is opposition to this idea. Jack O’Connor doesn’t want cut-backs or wage cuts. Because in his eyes, the Public Sector should be very much immune to any sort of cut with the Trade Union Vacine. But this time, Jack can not get his way. It’s either Ireland or him and I don’t want the latter. Now I do agree that a public servant on €30,000 per year should not receive cuts because they are very much unable to afford them. But the average wage in the Irish Public Sector is nearly €50,000 while when compared the the Private Sector who are on a mere €39,000 for the same job. Something is very much wrong in this society if that is the case. There is a €11,000 difference, the Private Sector wage cuts are much more severe, on the scale of 10% – 20% and the Private Sector actually pay for their pensions. Now just while on Pensions, let me just outline how unfair it is. The average Private Sector worker will pay, over their lifetime around 20% of their wages into their pension while the average Public Sector worker will pay a mere 6% and yet they will get 90% of there sallary back once they retire. Talk about an unjust and unfair society.
The Public Sector have had it good for years, but so has Jack O’Connor who has an anual sallary of €125,000. A Socialist on a Capitalist wage is a suitable description of someone who can only be described as a hypocrit. How can he honestly campaign for improved conditions of workers and fair wages when he himself is on what he would consider an unfair payment. He even had the cheek to appear on RTÉ’s the Frontline and make a smart remark about Pat Kenny’s ” trophy house ” in Dalkey. I would love for Mr. O’Connor to present his home to the world so we could judge wheather he has injected his gigantic six figure sallary into his home to also make it a “trophy house”.
Now Jack O’Connor along with Imact’s Peter McCloone and the gang want to bring Ireland to a standstill because they blame the Government for destroying the country and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without hope. Well lads, there is no smoke without fire and you are just to blame as Bertie and his Ministerial army.
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Dale McDermott
