Re: world government - it's worth a shot
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:32 am
our politicians are indeed greedy but the true cause of the irish economic collapse mate was the greed of the construction industry and its forcing up of house and commercial property which caused a property bubble which collapsed and because of that the banks were left with alot of toxic assets....he failed utterly to address the point in terms of the irish economy
the irish economy is sound for the most part ill have you know - look at our export figures over the last ten to fiftheen years...however we failed to regulate the property and banking sectors becuase of the greed - not because of a shabby irish economy mate
we irish had every right to enter the euro...we were the highest performing economy in europe for a long time and for good reason however the EU and the irish government failed to regulate the banks and the property market and that is what hit us...every other facet of our economy was growing and is still growing
your comrade in the video has a good point tho in terms of interferrence in demostic policy regards an election - the Eu has no mandate there and as such should have kept out of it. That and Angula Merkels comments preceding the bailout only helped to undermine our soverign bond % yeilds...i will agree that the EU made an utter balls of it but im still not ready to scrap the idea as of yet
The EU needs:
- an overhall in how communication of policy is presented publically (they have made a balls of it)
- an election by the public of commisioners and MEPs as well as commission president and EU president
- an INDEPENDENT oversight commitee on an EU level to present each treaty to all the citizens in an objective and informative matter
- and each country must ratify each treaty by referendum
- also chop as much of the beaurocratic layer out of brussels as possible
i dont think the Eu should be disbanded but it does need a big reformation and slimming down....i do understand your fears of the dilution of soverienty and i can relate especially with that medelling German Chouncillor but i cannot deny the good the EU has done and the bad it has brought upon us - I am not ready to give up just yet though....we need to find the balance
Cheers for the videos
the irish economy is sound for the most part ill have you know - look at our export figures over the last ten to fiftheen years...however we failed to regulate the property and banking sectors becuase of the greed - not because of a shabby irish economy mate
we irish had every right to enter the euro...we were the highest performing economy in europe for a long time and for good reason however the EU and the irish government failed to regulate the banks and the property market and that is what hit us...every other facet of our economy was growing and is still growing
your comrade in the video has a good point tho in terms of interferrence in demostic policy regards an election - the Eu has no mandate there and as such should have kept out of it. That and Angula Merkels comments preceding the bailout only helped to undermine our soverign bond % yeilds...i will agree that the EU made an utter balls of it but im still not ready to scrap the idea as of yet
The EU needs:
- an overhall in how communication of policy is presented publically (they have made a balls of it)
- an election by the public of commisioners and MEPs as well as commission president and EU president
- an INDEPENDENT oversight commitee on an EU level to present each treaty to all the citizens in an objective and informative matter
- and each country must ratify each treaty by referendum
- also chop as much of the beaurocratic layer out of brussels as possible
i dont think the Eu should be disbanded but it does need a big reformation and slimming down....i do understand your fears of the dilution of soverienty and i can relate especially with that medelling German Chouncillor but i cannot deny the good the EU has done and the bad it has brought upon us - I am not ready to give up just yet though....we need to find the balance
Cheers for the videos