The Children of the New Goverment

They're about to hit our streets any day now. They're in covert operations at this point, in negotiation to set up the new government. They're the new elected politicians to run a new government.

They're off our streets. We can walk freely without being accosted by their large posters with posed and poised faces, compelling us to notice their need for attention.

'Pick me, no pick me' screamed from the signs perched, often precariously, on walls and poles and fences. It was to difficult to drive carefully and unhindered without our driver's eye being distracted by the colour or the slogan accosting the airwaves.

Our ears were assaulted witht the sound of broadcasting voices gathered, to hover around microphones in small studios up and down the country. The aural airwaves buzzed with vibrating emissions of the human voices, caught up in mindless analysis and discussion on who should be elected and how those proposed and posturing their wares would fare with the electorate.

Morning after morning follwed by night after night raged with the excited broadcasters, revelling in the sound bite and shock value of catching the candidates off centre.

We grew tired of the sameness of the candidates speeches, well prepared by someone else and well rehearsed by the radio or TV director beforehand.

The electorate spoke and voted the present incumbents out by a considerable drop in the voting. The broadcasters rervelled in that also.

At the moment a silence has descended on the country, as we speculate silently on who will do what, where and why.

A new party politics will dominate the Dail's (Irish for Governent) floor of debate and discussion. The principal party - Fine Gael - have a 5 point plan, which was dolled out faithfully over the last number of months and particularly the last few weeks.

Here's the spoof of the Fine Gael (major party) from their website -

'Ireland is in the middle of the biggest crisis in the history of the State. There are no easy answers or quick fixes. But we are optimistic that the road to recovery is there with the right leadership and the will to reinvent, re-imagine and reform our Nation. It is going to take hard work to get the country back on an even footing and to get Ireland working again. Fine Gael believes we can get Ireland working together. It is vital that the next government is given the backing to do the job.'

1.Politics – taking the lead

2.Smaller, Better Government – Services you need are prioritised over back-room waste

3.A completely new Health system

4.Fixing the deficit – jobs protected by no income tax increases and cutting waste

5.Jobs – protecting and creating jobs

I'll leave to you, the reader, to fill in what they mean. You can also look at the site for further information. www.finegael.2011.com

Ireland needs to begin solving its debt and banking crisis on an European level, so says a leading Irish economist - Colm McCarthy.

He says the Irish banking crisis is as much an European crisis as the Irish crisis had its origins on an European level. He says those on a senior European level are denying that the crisis continues. The new goverment should for Europe wide solution tot eh continuing banking crisis.

We'll have to wait on that one too to see what the outcome will be. No doubt this will take some time.

In the meantime, many businesses are going into liquidation and creditors have to make many write-offs on loans outstanding.

Being declared bankrupt in Ireland means the judgement against you will last twelve years. So setting up a business and loooking for loans and credit are out.

There is hope that there will be a change in the Irish law to reduce the lenght of the effect of the judgment against those declared bankrupt.

But we wait and wait for the newcomers to bring about some decisions to help us unshacle the difficulties of an economic disaster of tsunamic proportions.

We're not the only ones who wait to see what happens next.

"IMF spokeswoman Caroline Atkinson said the Washington-based organisation would meet with the new government most likely in April.'" -Irish Independent, 4th March 2011.

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