Last chance for Irish electorate to save themselves.

Six hundred thousand Irish people are either unemployed or have emigrated to Australia, Canada, the USA, New Zealand, or the UK. If we estimate that each of those individuals are part of a family of at least three adults then there are at a very minium 1.8 million voters suffering horribly as a result of the Fianna Fail government's policies. If we add to that the attacks on the blind, the sick, the disabled, the handicapped and disabled children, pensioners and the homeless there are well over 2 million voters directly damaged by this outgoing government. Wouldn't you think that with a total population of only 3.8 million then it would be impossible for Ireland to elect the same again? Another right wing capitalist regime who's first priority will be to protect the rich. But on Monday 28th February Enda Kenny will lead Ireland for the next five years. His Fine Gael party is a right wing protectorate for banks, the wealthy, big farmers, industrialists, foreign bond holders etc. But the Irish people only have themselves to blame for what they are about to inflict on their own country over the next 72 hours. They have a choice of a left wing alliance of political representatives or a right wing alliance of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. The Irish people will vote 55% right wing FG/FF and 20% right of centre Labour. And they are looking for change? Loose change is all they'll get. If the IMF feels like throwing a few cents to them!!

The Catholic Church in Ireland yesterday warned that there will be violence in the streets if the new government do not address the "bonus culture" and vast inequalites in Irish society. Even though Fine Gael has been chosen to run the country for the next five years that doesn't mean Cairo could not happen in Dublin in six months time. That's how long I think Enda's got to start taking a cut off the rich. I don't usually respect much the Roman church have to say. But they got it right this time. Six months till doomsday.

Are Irish Tax Payers Money Laundering for Al Qaeda?

I'm very surprised that niether Pat Kenny or any Irish media outlet have not questioned Brian Lenihan's assertion that no-one knows who bond holders are! Lenihan was dismissing Michael Lewis's book about the Irish banking crisis (Thursday 3rd Feb 11). So we could be money laundering for Al Quieda and if we don't know who the €85 billion bonds belong to how do we tax them? Of course I forgot, we don't tax anyone with over a million in this country.

Irish Election Prediction 2011

I predict that on 28th February 2011 the Irish General Election will produce the following results:

Fianna Fail 20 seats (2007/ 78 seats)
Fine Gael   61 seats (2007/ 51 seats)
Labour       33 seats (2007/ 20 seats)
Green Party  0 seats (2007/ 06 seats)
Sinn Fein    31 seats (2007/ 04 seats)
PD               0 seats (2007/ 02 seats)
IND           21 seats (2007/ 05 seats)

Can anyone tell me what the betting is on this?

What a Cruel Budget!

Well I knew there would be some kind of dictatorship coming out of this disastrous government in the Republic of Ireland. But what a smartly crafted web they have spun to do the maximum damage and then sit back for five years while the people have to take punishment they have meted out but which will be blamed on a new Government to be elected in January. The FF Green Coalition have done a deal with the IMF and the European Commission and Central Bank for a five year cruelty plan (austerity). Then Fianna Fail will be politically destroyed in the election due within seven weeks. But their plan must be implemented by the new government over the next five years. The type of adjustments in the budget for the first year is a sign of things to come. The first attack was on the blind. I know. I need to repeat that. Brian Lenihan's first item in his budget was to take €8 a week minimum off blind people. Second was disabled children. Will I say that again too? Disabled children. A person on a welfare benefit with a disabled child will lose €8 a week from their benefit and also €10 from child benefit. If they are working and on a minimum wage they will have a reduction of 12% in their income because the minimum wage is being reduced by €1 per hour. And they will for the first time be brought into the tax net. By the way the government also announced a maximum wage in the civil service of €250k a year. How kind. And so that these highly paid, highly skilled layabouts don't leave the country their income tax will not be increased but low paid and middle income people will have tax increases. At the beginning of this year this government sacked 2,000 classroom assistants who cared for disabled  children and kids with learning difficulties in Irish schools. Now many of those kids cannot attend school because they need one to one help with both their learning and such things as toileting, mobility and feeding. There are many, many more ways which Brian Cowan and Brian Lenihan have attacked and abused children, the blind and disabled. The poor. Ireland has had a terrible history of child abuse and state elderly abuse by church and state institutions. Now the government have joined in to abuse them all with deprivation of education, food, heat, clothing. Even the white stick is going to be stolen. Abuse is abuse lads. The level and the different variety doesn't make it any less harmful. Meanwhile the rich have a little more cream poured on their strawberries. I'll keep up dating this budget blog. And if the government is abusing someone in this society I will report it without favour.

One good thing that came from this budget was the reply of Sinn Fein's Pearse Doherty to the Finance Minister's budget speech. Such an eloquent contribution. Such humanity. If I wanted to make a comparison this man reminds me of Michael Collins. If Pearse Doherty were to join Fine Gael or labour he would lead them in one year and be Irish Premier within two years. Watch this space for a new legend in politics. He will be the making of Sinn Fein if people can forget the past. But he will make a mark in Irish politics starting in 2011. You read it here.

Financial Terrorism: The Irish Budget 2011

Tonight with Vincent Browne: Irish company's and investors at home and abroad have €1.2 trillion in assetts and cash invested in Ireland and abroad. One of the companies is Google whose company is based in Galway for tax reason's (12.5% Corporation Tax). Google made profits of €3.6 billion in 2008 and paid €18 million tax.  Source: The Government of Ireland Central Statistics Office, Dublin. Meanwhile Dermott Ahern TD, Minister for Justice has announced his resignation from politics. He will receive €128k a year as a pension for his job as TD and €150k per year for a pension for his job as a Minister. Before he retires he will join with the rest of his Ministers on 7th December in introducing a budget which will reduce the minimum wage by 12% or €1. He will then bring those on the minimum wage into the tax net for the first time.

Toni Manifesto: Irish Budget 2011

Toni Manifesto: Irish Budget 2011

Irish Budget 2011

The Austerity programme imposed on the poor in Irish society has made headlines all over the world. And what it has resulted in is greater abuse than ever of our refugee population. The conditions in which refugees live in Ireland under the Fianna Fail government is probably the greatest single human rights abuse record in Europe over the last twenty years. The abuse of children by this government is in fact unprecedented in Ireland ever. The first thing the new government elected in January/February 2011 must do is announce a total amnesty for all those held in refugee concentration camps in Ireland. For all children to be released from Mountjoy jail. For Human Rights Legislation to be introduced that would protect ANY child living or visiting Ireland. In other words the child being held in Butlins Concentration Camp in Drogheda would have exactly the same rights as a child born in Cavan Area Hospital to parents from St Martins Estate in Cavan. That's what our missionaries went all over the world to promote. Now we the Irish people must hang our Celtic Tiger heads in shame that we have created our own concentration camps in this country.