Category: The State

Irish taxpayers will not pay

Ok, here’s the reality. The massive cuts and tax increases in recent budgets, the massive cuts and tax increases in the four year plan are all just nibbling around the edge of the infinite billions we owe, estimated by some at €250 billion.

The EU, IMF and the Markets, in cooperation with our gombeen government have decided that Irish taxpayers will take on the full cost of saving the Euro and repaying the bond holders.

Germany, the richest and most powerful country in Europe with a population of 80 million just recently paid the last installment of the €28 billion bill for WW1, nearly a century after the event.

There are only four million citizens in Ireland, two million of which are working. Most of these workers are in dire straits with massive loans, mortgages and the day to day cost of living in a very expensive, inefficient and corrupt banana republic.

The expectation is that Irish citizens will voluntary live in a wilderness of poverty and hopelessness for the rest of their lives in order to make the plan work.

They will then happily pass on the massive burden to their children without comment or complaint and on to future generations ad infinitum.

The gombeen government is doing what all Irish gombeen government do when the make a mess of things – screwing the taxpayer.

The EU and IMF are ignorant of the true state of affairs in Ireland and have been convinced by our gombeen government that Irish taxpayers are only too happy to help out, no matter what the cost.

The international financial community is very impressed with the honesty and apparent unity of the Irish people.

But there’s a problem. Nobody has bothered to consult the two million or so taxpayers about the plan.

It has been innocently assumed by all parties that they will shut up and pay up.

I don’t think they can, or will pay.

It is on this technicality that the great plan will fall.

Irish corruption threatens EU and European project

Slowly but surely EU officials are beginning to realise how virulent the Irish corruption disease really is as it begins to not only infect the Euro but threatens to bring down the entire EU project.

But EU officials are only fooling themselves if they think the €85 billion offered tonight to recapitalise the banks and fund the public finances will be enough.

According to Prof. Brian Lucy of Trinity College the total bill, which I believe is down to our corrupt political system, will be about €250 billion, I’ll just repeat that – €250 billion.

I think Brussels is making a serious mistake by under funding the Irish bailout because if it fails the domino effect will accelerate and threaten Portugal and perhaps even Spain.

If that happens, it’s goodbye Euro.

In a corrupt state reality must be avoided at all costs.

Last weekend the Minister for Justice, Dermot Ahern and the Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey lied to the nation regarding negotiations on the IMF bailout.

In a functional democracy these liars would be swiftly dealt with and the nation would move on.

In Ireland this cannot happen because we are an intrinsically corrupt state. In such a country the truth must never even be acknowledged because to do so would mean having to actually act and to act would mean accepting that we are an intrinsically corrupt state.

To avoid facing reality we regularly engage in bizarre analysis of events.

The following discussion is taken from the Sunday Supplement in which presenter Sam Smyth, Fianna Fail’s Mary O’Rourke, and other panelists engage in an Alice in Wonderland analysis of what exactly a lie is as opposed to the truth.

As a member of the most corrupt political party in the country and therefore the party with the greatest number of liars Mary O’Rourke’s responses are particularly interesting and bizarre.

Panelist: We had this comical situation with Dempsey and Ahern standing at a platform and saying it was completely ludicrous the notion that we were dealing with the IMF.

Smyth: Do you think they were deliberately lying or did they not know…a lie is worse than being mislead. There’s no question about that, it’s a deliberate untruth.

Panelist: It’s morally worse but is it worse in the sense that the insight into how this government works or rather doesn’t work.

Smyth: I take that point but somebody maliciously lying or telling an untruth is a serious…

Panelist: well if you take it that they were lying then that will stand on its own. If they weren’t lying and they didn’t know what was going on that’s even worse if they’re two members of the Cabinet.

Smyth: Mary (O’Rourke) do you think those Ministers were lying or do you think they didn’t know what was going on?

O’Rourke: I believe that they didn’t realise the extent of what they knew if you follow me.

That if they sat at the Cabinet table they had to know what was happening therefore if they inquired and didn’t seem to realise of what was going to happen well then that’s what led them…

I do think that genuinely they didn’t realise the extent of the vastness of what was about to happen.

Smyth: Would that (their ignorance) not frighten you Mary?

O’Rourke: I would feel they knew but did not realise the awfulness of the extent of what they knew, that’s what I feel.

Now, nobody has told me, I just figured that.

Dermot Ahern wouldn’t be known for his nuancing, shall we say. He said it was a book of fiction.

Panelist: If he used the expression ‘a book of fiction’ then either he’s outside the loop or he absolutely and utterly lied.

Dermot Ahern is very emphatic in the language he uses and to say something was a work of fiction…

Smyth: Yes, when you’re going to be found out so quickly it’s hard to believe that someone would deliberately say that.

Panelist: It makes a mockery of the whole thing. It was laughable for ordinary decent citizens who were listening to the shenanigans that were going on.

Incredibly, the whole matter came up again later in the programme and again the panel engaged in a bizarre discussion on when is a lie not a lie while completely ignoring the fact that we live in a country where the Minister for Justice can casually lie to the nation regarding a very serious matter that will impact on every citizen for generations to come.

The disturbing aspect of such off the wall analysis is that these are well educated, intelligent people who wield a good degree of influence on ordinary citizens.

Decks need to be cleared immediately

The rats are abandoning the sinking ship. The decision by the Green Party to cut and run has panicked the gombeen men Jackie Healy-Rae and Michael Lowry.

This will probably mean an election before Christmas and that, in my opinion, is what should happen.

For this government to carry on pretending that there actually is a government just to pass the budget is not tenable.

The decks need to be cleared immediately.

White collar crime in Ireland? We wait in hope

Here’s a curious thing.

I was searching through the RTE website for a programme when I came across a link entitled ‘White collar crime’.

Feck, says I to myself, has this particular category of crime finally been recognised in Ireland?

Sadly, I was disappointed, the link related to the US, a jurisdiction where white collar crime is recognized and acted upon.

Ah well, we wait in hope.

Standby for the bucket of cold, hard reality

Less than two weeks ago a major talking point in Ireland was whether civil servants should give up their long established right to a half hour break to cash their pay cheques.

This is despite the fact that the actual issuing of such pay cheques ended years ago with the introduction of the automatic funds transfer system.

The unions said that this particular (bizarre) perk would have to be the subject of some tough negotiation before any concessions could be considered.

This farce is a good indication of how far from reality most Irish people operate.

Just this weekend, as the country plunges into economic oblivion, there are still people so far removed from reality that they’re talking about the Croke Park Agreement as if it was still a realistic prospect.

As a nation, for the first time in our entire blighted history, we are about to have our collective heads shoved into a bucket of cold, hard reality.

We will be held there for about 30 seconds before being pulled out and, gasping for air and shocked with horror at the sight of reality, we will see ‘kind’ strangers shouting in our faces.

Hello, Hello, do you understand? You must stop talking and act. Do you understand? You must educate yourself on how to run a country; you must learn to take responsibility for your corruption and stupidity, do you understand?

Weakly, our gombeen leaders will mumble – Lehman Brothers…British oppression…before the heads are pushed back in the bucket.

And so it will continue until, finally, reality is forced into our tiny collective heads and we can begin the long process of creating, for the first time, a decent, accountable democracy without the contamination of corrupt, greedy and arrogant gombeen men.

Harney's betrayal: The criminal Haughey would have been proud

I find it difficult to believe that I once admired Mary Harney.

When she and Des O’Malley challenged the criminal Haughey and his corrupt party by leaving and forming the Progressive Democrats I had hoped that, at last, Ireland was on the road to real democracy.

And indeed while O’Malley was leader the party acted with integrity and determination in challenging our corrupt, gombeen political system.

Sadly, all that ended soon after Harney took over as leader. She obviously concluded that all that integrity and accountability stuff was a hindrance to staying in and exploiting power.

Harney abandoned her principles and, in effect, rejoined her old, corrupt, Fianna Fail party. In so doing, she betrayed her country.

In typically cowardly Fianna Fail fashion she was on the airwaves today blaming others for the destruction of our country.

We have very strong regulation in relation to corporate governance. For example, I personally established the Director of Corporate Enforcement.

When I was Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment I carried out many inquiries including one into Ansbacher.

There was a failure by the authorities to enforce the regulations, of that there is no doubt.

According to this cowardly traitor government ministers have no responsibility whatsoever for the actions/non actions of state enforcement agencies.

This cowardly traitor did establish the Director of Corporate Enforcement – a completely powerless authority that has yet to bring a single white collar criminal to justice.

Its powerlessness and abject failure is, like the failure of all other so called law enforcement authorities, no accident.

This cowardly traitor was involved in the Ansbacher and many other inquiries concerning white collar crime but none of these crimes were uncovered by so called law enforcement authorities. They were all uncovered by whistleblowers or the media.

Without exception, every one of these inquiries ended in failure. Not a single white collar criminal was ever charged. This is the record this traitor is so proud of.

When asked did she feel ashamed that she is part of a government that has seen the IMF called in she replied.

No, I don’t actually.

She defended her lack of shame by covering it with the lie spouted by her fellow Fianna Fail liars – it’s not a bailout, it’s a loan.

The criminal Haughey would have been proud of this woman’s descent from the high ground of integrity and concern for her country to his own level of grasping greed, dishonesty and betrayal.

Daly and the 'deluded' banks

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha….Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ….Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah….Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…sorry, sorry, excuse me.

I’ve just read a news report that the chairman of NAMA, Frank Daly, believes the banks have put their delusions behind them.

Daly spent more than 40 years with the Revenue Commissioners and was chairman from 2002 to his retirement in 2008.

In other words he was a key figure for much of his life in an organisation that failed to act against the widespread criminality within the Irish banking system.

He was part of a culture that allowed banks to rob and plunder as they pleased without any fear of punishment whatsoever, part of a culture that ultimately destroyed our country and he thinks it’s the banks that are deluded?

The brutal reality is that the banks are not, and never were, suffering from delusions.

They were, and still are, well aware that they are operating within a hopelessly corrupt state which provides them with watertight protection against criminal charges.

This fact is obvious when we consider that, despite decades of widespread criminality, not a single official or institution has ever been charged, never mind actually end up to jail.

On every occasion when financial criminality is exposed by whistle blowers or the media, never by so called regulators, we get the same old false tough talk from so called state authorities that Daly was spouting today.

All debtors will be pursued.

Debtors who do not meet repayment plans will face foreclosure.

Debtors will have to provide a list of assets and spouse’s assets.

Debtors salaries will be severely cut.

My response to this bullshit?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……ha ha ha ha ha ha ha………………………