To whom it concerns, below are some ideas that may help Ireland's economy, or at least hopefully incite others to come up with better ideas to help our Nation.
My Manifesto For Change, Survival and Economic Growth in Ireland.
We lost the Irish working class hero James Connolly in 1916. Thi... more
To whom it concerns, below are some ideas that may help Ireland's economy, or at least hopefully incite others to come up with better ideas to help our Nation.
My Manifesto For Change, Survival and Economic Growth in Ireland.
We lost the Irish working class hero James Connolly in 1916. This is the 90th Anniversary of the Limerick Soviet, a Workers Revolution in Ireland.
If he had survived the Easter Rising perhaps his Socialist influence would have stopped some of the money grabbing people that have financially damaged my country through their greed and short sightedness. Hopefully he would have set in place measures that would have stopped them from being able to use and abuse us, leaving us and our country in such an appalling financial state. I like you know, should have, could have, would have doesn’t cut ice in the real world, we need positive action, real solutions and results to get us out of this crisis.
Our Ruling elite, educated and moneyed classes tell us that we have to yet again tighten our belts and work for pittance, but not one of them has any good ideas to get us out of this financial crisis. So I am afraid we will have to do it ourselves. They give us the impression that things are so bad that they do not know what to do. Many of the older generation remember the joke,” Will the last person leaving Ireland please turn off the light”.
I have decided to come up with my own Manifesto of ideas to get us out of the mire.
Perhaps you can help me and come up with some of your own ideas.
First Government Ministers you are top heavy, lets get rid of ten percent of you, honourable retirement might be an option for some of you since some of you hold two pensions, one from Ireland and the other from the EU.
The rest of the TDs should agree to take a pay cut of 30% until we are out of this financial crisis. You wish to force the unemployed to do menial labour for their social welfare payments.
OK then lets start by taking our educated unemployed adults into poor or deprived areas and bringing teams of our more educated unemployed into schools to help teach the kids in those areas to improve their reading, writing, maths, languages, crafts, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, ethics, sciences, music, meditation, yoga and sexual education. Let’s give the kids a real helping hand and real chance to better themselves.
Lets start to teach our kids real sex education and about how to have a good rewarding relationships with good loving partners in our schools. Let us teach them how to communicate with the other sex, how to listen and do constructive argumentation. After all we don't want them ending up being pregnant before they have completed their education, ending up in dead end jobs, or leaving the country.
Lets build government owned sport centres adjacent to or in our Army Barracks, Fire Brigade Stations, Hospitals, Police Stations and Universities so that our youth can go there so that they can be taught by some of the real heroes of our country and given positive role models.
In our major cities let us use some of those unused unoccupied warehouses to create a non profit business where people can drop off unused goods, old furniture, electric, appliances, bikes, toys etc, and create a second hand store for families.
We could save the planet cut down on waste removal and generate jobs for the unemployed.
On the first of May every year lets have a workers day off and a street party where everyone can take out some of their unwanted goods and sell them on the road in a Mardi Gras atmosphere, then we can have an end it with bonfires a real Bealtine Celebration.
Near the 31st of October every year let’s take our kids good but unwanted toys into our school halls/creches/sports clubs and community halls and sell them with some of the profit going to the school/crèche/club etc. The parents can store them up for Christmas and give them with the new Christmas toys to their kids. Thus cutting down on their costs and again saving the planet by having less waste and insuring that there are resources there for future generations.
Let’s start clubs in our local neighbourhoods to encourage people to enjoy the simpler cost free things in life, like sports, dance, storytelling, singing, music, writing, fishing, walking, history, lectures and Irish culture.
Let’s start planting our own fruit trees in our gardens so that we don’t have to import as much fruit, grow some of our own vegetables as well.
Let’s stop illegal dumping by creating free drop off points in council run dumps for unwanted furniture and household goods, the cost of which to be covered by a minimal council tax.
Let’s tear down some of those larger unused buildings in our cities to create car parks for the local residents, thus taking their cars off the roads to create bus lanes and cycle lanes. We can also build underground car parks under our public parks. We can create car parks outside the town and use free mini buses to ferry the car occupants in and out of the cities.
Let’s create a doctors scheme where working class people pay twenty euros for a visit as long as they are there before 10am, the doctors surgery would have to open before 9am though.
Let’s create local infirmaries to be manned by local doctors in our communities on a rotating basis for local accident and emergency cases to free up our hospital emergency wards for serious cases.
Let’s get the EU to increase our territorial waters by five miles around the country outside our territorial waters so that our waters don’t become over fished. A no fishing zone by ours and others so that we have something to pass on to future generations.
Let’s stop our moneyed elite, builders, local councils and government agencies from filling in and building on our wetlands. Our wetlands and marshes provide oxygen just like the Amazon Rain Forest.
We have to stop buying all our goods from China and India, unless they agree to buy a similar amount of goods from us. We have to create a, you scratch my back and I scratch yours economics with all of the countries worldwide that supply us with goods.
We are only limited by our imagination and courage, some things we may not be able to afford at present but if I can put these ideas together surely there are even more ideas out there in the Irish community that can spark a revolution to change this country around for the people of Ireland and give some hope and prosperity a chance here for ourselves, our loved ones, families, friends, comrades and strangers.
Lets stop the brain drain this time lets give the intelligent genuine people of this country every helping hand with our ideas and our support. We need to look after our own rich and poor alike and also to give space to all those from abroad that have chosen to make here their home.
If we have surplus goods, food and old toys lets send it to poorer countries along with our knowledge and know how.
Slan
Brian Moloney
15 Island Road,
Assumpta Park,
Limerick.
phone 061 275300
