Comments on: Please help me http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/ Rambles around the head of an Irish Grandad Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-20957 Grandad Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:26:23 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/#comment-20957 <p>Vicky - Give it back???  Those fuckers grab every cent they can out of the system and will fight to the death before returning any of it.  May they die roaring.</p> Vicky – Give it back???  Those fuckers grab every cent they can out of the system and will fight to the death before returning any of it.  May they die roaring.

]]> By: Vicky Rogers http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-20955 Vicky Rogers Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:19:29 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/#comment-20955 i know its bloody crazy granddad i think that this idiot should not take that bonus and even if he does take this bonus he could give it back to our struggling health system. i know its bloody crazy granddad i think that this idiot should not take that bonus and even if he does take this bonus he could give it back to our struggling health system.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-20948 Grandad Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:49:38 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/#comment-20948 <p>Geri - Feel free to talk around me.  I like a good healthy debate.  And I agree with you.  If the Irish had enough saving to bail the country out, I wouldn't see why they should part with a red cent.  It's the banks and the builders who got us into this mess - let them all go to the wall.</p> <p>Thrifty - Your answer to everything.  And you are right!</p> Geri – Feel free to talk around me.  I like a good healthy debate.  And I agree with you.  If the Irish had enough saving to bail the country out, I wouldn’t see why they should part with a red cent.  It’s the banks and the builders who got us into this mess – let them all go to the wall.

Thrifty – Your answer to everything.  And you are right!

]]> By: Thriftcriminal http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-20945 Thriftcriminal Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:21:05 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/#comment-20945 McVeigh them. McVeigh them.

]]> By: Ian http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-20944 Ian Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:11:07 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/#comment-20944 PR is not the problem - it's the system of PR used that leads to the corruption.  If there were not constituencies where approving the building of a block and pebbledash hacienda halfway up the side of an unspoilt valley was the key to a couple of dozen votes, there would not be the crooked deals.  A national list system should be used for central government, leaving behind  the drink and wink negotiations. PR is not the problem – it’s the system of PR used that leads to the corruption.  If there were not constituencies where approving the building of a block and pebbledash hacienda halfway up the side of an unspoilt valley was the key to a couple of dozen votes, there would not be the crooked deals.  A national list system should be used for central government, leaving behind  the drink and wink negotiations.

]]> By: Geri Atric http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-20943 Geri Atric Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:52:49 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/#comment-20943 Hey Brian..! Who you calling greedy? Took this Anglo/Celtic/Dutch lady a long time to save up a  little nest egg and be blowed if I'm going to give it to Wouter Bos (Dutch Minister of Finance) - no way!  Bet he's not giving up any of his savings/investments/2nd house etc. etc. either. Hi Grandad, sorry for talking round you at Brian. Seems all our countries are in much the same boat though - bailing like mad... Hey Brian..! Who you calling greedy? Took this Anglo/Celtic/Dutch lady a long time to save up a  little nest egg and be blowed if I’m going to give it to Wouter Bos (Dutch Minister of Finance) - no way!  Bet he’s not giving up any of his savings/investments/2nd house etc. etc. either.
Hi Grandad, sorry for talking round you at Brian. Seems all our countries are in much the same boat though – bailing like mad…

]]> By: kerryview http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-20941 kerryview Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:53:52 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/#comment-20941 PR votes them in. PR means vote for the idiot who promises you everything. We voted for PR. The PR system likes the idiot who is corrupt (I don't accept 'slightly' corrupt). PR will vote these fuckers out. PR will vote new fuckers. They will last only a short time. Then PR will vote the other fuckers back. Plus ca change. (We voted Lisbon too) PR votes them in. PR means vote for the idiot who promises you everything. We voted for PR. The PR system likes the idiot who is corrupt (I don’t accept ‘slightly’ corrupt).
PR will vote these fuckers out. PR will vote new fuckers. They will last only a short time. Then PR will vote the other fuckers back.
Plus ca change. (We voted Lisbon too)

]]> By: mick http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-20940 mick Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:42:14 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/#comment-20940 I've got to the point where i've stopped trying to analyse it. It's as if we're living in some parallel universe where the politicians are like some strange aliens that we look upon from afar. They appear intouchable, they are untouchable, and the electorate have got to the point where they feel their votes (and their opinions or feelings about the whole thing) are meaningless. Unless there's a total (revolutionary) change in our political system, nothing will change. It's like you get to an age where you look on politics as some strange abberation resembling a wierd form of reality tv! Aaargh!   I’ve got to the point where i’ve stopped trying to analyse it. It’s as if we’re living in some parallel universe where the politicians are like some strange aliens that we look upon from afar. They appear intouchable, they are untouchable, and the electorate have got to the point where they feel their votes (and their opinions or feelings about the whole thing) are meaningless.
Unless there’s a total (revolutionary) change in our political system, nothing will change.
It’s like you get to an age where you look on politics as some strange abberation resembling a wierd form of reality tv!
Aaargh!
 

]]> By: Ian http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-20937 Ian Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:58:51 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/#comment-20937 The problem lies in the clientelist system where politics is about doing stuff for particular people in return for their support.  People not interested in campaigning for new jacks at the hurling ground or a better bus service on bingo nights turn their backs on politics leaving people whose skills are  bluster and favours.  There needs to be a drastic reduction in the number of TDs so that they are not susceptible to pressure from small interest groups and that can't happen without a change in the constitution and that's not going to happen. The problem lies in the clientelist system where politics is about doing stuff for particular people in return for their support.  People not interested in campaigning for new jacks at the hurling ground or a better bus service on bingo nights turn their backs on politics leaving people whose skills are  bluster and favours.  There needs to be a drastic reduction in the number of TDs so that they are not susceptible to pressure from small interest groups and that can’t happen without a change in the constitution and that’s not going to happen.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/comment-page-1/#comment-20935 Grandad Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:04:01 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/10/14/please-help-me/#comment-20935 <p>Seamus - They know damned well that they are the most unpopular government in the history of the state and that they have no longer got a mandate, but power and money are more important to them than principles or the country.</p> Seamus – They know damned well that they are the most unpopular government in the history of the state and that they have no longer got a mandate, but power and money are more important to them than principles or the country.

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