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Thursday, February 12, 2009

revolt good people of Ireland

Well nearly two years on and here I am again. Whats happening my 39 viewers? Once again, it's been a long time but I'm here now so what harm. Alot has happened since my last post,I'm back with the woman of my dreams, I've hit the big 3 0 and as I previously predicted, the wheels have fallen off our greed fuelled economy.
Well tonight I am going to get political. Following recent revelations about our banking sector I feel compelled to comment on the state of our nation today. What a mess we are in,what a mess!
First of all let me tell you a story about an experience I had with a prominent Irish bank. In May 2002, my grandmother was on her death bed in Sligo general hospital and I was working out of town.
on learning of her deteriorating condition, I knew it was imperative for me to get home and say goodbye to her asap. Needless to say, I was broke until payday and I approached my bank looking for an overdraft extension of 50 euro for a mere 24 hours. I explained my situation to the loan advisor, to which she showed little sympathy. She flatly refused to grant my request and basically told me that it wasn't her problem. This is the sort of heartless institution that I, as a tax payer, am now expected to bail out?!
How have the banks got us into this situation? In one word, greed. A greed that saw them throw money recklessly at people who they knew were mot in a position to pay it back. We were manipulated into believing that there would be no end to the ridiculous property boom, that one 100%mortgages were an acceptable loan to give extremely young first time buyers, that banks needed less regulation, not more and that they were conducting their business' in a prudent manner. The same greed had them see fit that they could not lend me 50 euro to see my dying grandmother. They made me feel like a pice of dirt for asking for 50 euro while they threw hundreds of thousands of euro at young people to make their bonuses and pay their glutonous salaries! As Bob Dylan once sang, steel a little and they throw you in jail, steel alot and they make you a king.
And what should come of these bankers, the men that conspired to cook their books to deciet shareholders and taxpayers? The men that created this putrid, vile, greed fuelled monster that has brought this country to her knees and made us the laughing stock of the the economic world? Those found guity of corruption or wrongdoing of any kind should face lengthy jail sentences. Maybe they should be tried for treason as their inability to see beyond their own bamk balances has joepradised our national identity and pride to a point where, to be frank, doesn't bare thinking about. Aclear maessage must be sent out that actions such as these will never again be tolerated by the irish pyblic and examples must be made of the offenders.
As for our government, what can I say? It is my belief that a country can only be judged by how it treats the weakest members of its society. when I hear of 119 special needs teachers getting the axe, cancer services being decimated for less affluent regions, medical cards being taken off old age pensioners and I could go on, it enrages me! Wehit the most vulnerble people in the country with taxes and cut backs and yet see fit to give 7 BILLION to banks eho have acted so recklessly to bail them out! This is perverse in the most extreme. Enough is enough, we have to call a stop to this anarchy and regsin control of our country.
What is their agenda for this bail out anyway? call me cynical but i think there is more to all this then meets the eye. are they trying to protect their property developer cronies who they rubbed shoulders with in the fianna fail tent at the Galway races? What would happen if the banks collapsed and these so called entrepreneurs, who have property and land now worth massively less then they were initially valued, had their debts called in? I may be a mile off the mark but my gut tells me that there is more synister to all this.
And what a shower of incompetants they have proven to be also, we have a minister of finance that didnt think threre was anything untoward that billions of euros were hopping around banks like an micheal douglas in a bangkok brothel. A taoiseach who asked to vote yes on one of the most important pieces of legislation ever put before us, despite havin not read the lisbon treaty himself. Let us not forget about the wonderful bertie ahern, the minister of inance who didn,t believe in putting his money in the bank. Maybe he knew all those years ago that only a fool would trust the bank with their savings. With my hand on my heart, I can tell you for as long as I have a vote in this country, I will NEVER, EVER vote for those shower of corrupt bastards again.
So what do we do people? Its time to say STOP. we need to march on the dail and show the clowns in leinster house that we are their masters. They are mandated by us, the people of ireland, and not bankers, developpers or the european commision. It is our patriotic duty to call a halt to this lunacy and reclaim the country that we all love in our hearts, and restore some pride rom what has been the shambolic and disgraceful eras to visit our great state. We have to revolt people and say "no more, enough is enough".

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