The 2011 Budget for the Republic of Ireland

Hope Kate from the Silver Surfers picks up on this one.

The Republic of Ireland, as quoted by a commentator on RTE's Marianne Finucane radio programme (10/10/10), is on the precipice of total economic collapse within a fortnight if a common approach is not agreed between the main political parties in Ireland. I, Toni Manifesto, propose a budget to try to save Ireland from total economic collapse. However I totally disagree that there needs to be consensus between the political parties on the way forward. Such a consensus would merely present a Political Dictatorship. I would prefer and openly propose a Military Takeover by Ireland's Defence Forces. The suspension of the Constitution. The suspension of the Irish Parliament and Senate. The immediate takeover of all banking, financial and Insurance institutions by Government Officials who would at all times have the support of armed personnel. The government has been pleading with the banks to start lending. The pleading would be over. If a government official and army officer enter a bank building and tell bank officials to start lending and this order is disobeyed those bank officials would be put under house arrest. This is an emergency measure that would last for one year.

The reason Ireland is in the predicament it is in is greed, corruption at every level throughout the state. I mean every level throughout the state. Every government department, every bank, every business, every human element including churches, voluntary organisations, security services including police (Gardai). The connection I will make here is the Galway Tent, a Fianna Fail Government corruption pump to encourage the rich to create and keep sustained the thing that brought Ireland to it's knees, The Celtic Tiger. Aligned with this was the Church and its child abuse and systemic cover up. The scandal of Shell Gas in Mayo that was donated free to international oil companies which flies in the face of best practice shown by the Norwegian Government. The Golden Circle in the Anglo Irish Bank of Fianna Fail Government supporters and building developers who brought Anglo and Ireland to it's knees. The FAS corruption in Ireland's Government training Agency. The recent revelations about monies going missing in HSE expenses. And of course Senate and Parliamentary expenses by politicians. Some will be surprised that I mention the Gardai but I recall a scandal some years back about nursing home owners stealing money from their residents and a major investigation was launched. One of those complaints was made by a garda on RTE radio about money being taken from a parent. No-one was ever prosecuted in the nursing home scandals, in the banks or finance companies despite public airing of billions being slushed around from one institute to another to create a false impression that all was OK. These are all crimes I am describing!! Serious criminal offences which every member of the Irish police service know about! But unfortunately the two most serious offences that people go to jail for in the Irish Republic is no TV licence and minor traffic offences. Why don't police officers respond to major criminal offences being committed on a daily basis as described above. Well the Fianna Fail Government set up Anglo Irish Bank, the HSE, FAS, collaborated with the churches, collected the political expenses and appointed every Police Commissioner for the past fifteen years. But if a garda officer doesn't have to be told to stop a car for no tax or a baldy tyre why should a garda officer have to wait for the call to go in to parliament and arrest someone fiddling expenses, or into a bank that has just covered up tens of billions of euros in fraud? I could go on and on and on. But the Government under Brian Cowan and Brian Lenihan and the Green Party will announce Ireland's budget on 7th December 2010 for the year 2011.

I believe this budget announcement will be the single worst attack on the poor and disadvantaged that any western country has seen in the past 70 years. It will continue last years policy of rewarding, supporting and covering up for the rich in Ireland at all costs. Capitalist ideology and past acts of economic terrorism will be protected before the interest of the Irish population.

My budget proposals will come under the usual policies of fiscal rectitude. Huge political reform and cutbacks on the cost of the political system in Ireland. A new health system which would literally pull down the structure of the HSE, the health boards that should have been abolished and the over loaded clerical, administrative, consultative private profiteers and hangers on that have created a mammoth waste of expenditure that is creating misery to the entire population. It would be replaced by a simple health system that is built on one doctor, one nurse and a hospital bed. Obviously everyone will be waiting for the rest of that story. I would introduce a fast track system of legislation, an end to a part time parliament in Dublin, a halving of County Councillors and Urban Councillors. Reform of the Social Welfare System. A special Government Department to set wages and prices with strict control on both. All banks would be controlled by the Government until the €50 billion banking guarantee is repaid in full. A state bank would be set up which would have the interest of the Irish people, not profit, as it's ethos. The 30,000 millionaires reported by Fintan O'Toole of the Irish times would be named and ordered to come into the tax net. Each would be given one year to make a one off payment of €330,000 to the Revenue Commissioners. There would be a wealth tax, a property tax and water rates which would be charged on the basis of what one could afford. Child Benefit would be taxed and abolished for the rich. Critics might say this type of actions against the well off might make them leave the country. That's not a big problem. We have tens of thousands of well educated graduates who can take their place, hundreds of thousands of unemployed who can take their place. As long as the billionaires, millionaires and well off don't try to take their money with them the rest of us don't mind. Medical Consultants and millionaire Lawyers can and will be replaced. Lawyer fees to be reviewed with a view to a minimum 50% reduction. Tribunal fees to be reduced by 80%. Bond Holders, either bank or Government to be named before the Bank Guarantee can be implemented. We don't know if these bond holders are members of the Real IRA or Al Queida. Or Chelsea supporters. The Constitution of Ireland Completely re-written to reflect 2015 values and not 1930 values. A taxation overhaul that would take away the emphasis on "income tax" and be replaced with a levy system. A Health Levy, an Education Levy, a Crime Levy. A new system to provide finance for our prisons which should be paid for by those who commit crime and support crime. I've mentioned a lot of them above. Extensive changes to the Justice System including penalties against Judges who release prisoners on bail or early from prison who then go on to kill, rape or commit serious crimes.

A Civil Service who would take commands from Government Departments and an end to the "Yes Minister" farce. All of the matters and others, I will set out in detail over the next days and weeks and hope to give politicians a fortnight to think about my radical budget. One more proposal I will have would be the most far reaching all Ireland economic plan that could very well create the ultimate economic boost on the Island of Ireland and that could in a matter of five years end the economic mire we are now in. But that's all for another day.