John Carey
Well you would never think we have the European Elections on Friday and I have received a plethora of e-mails ahead of them on the subject of the Irish and global recession and the misery it’s causing for thousands of people throughout our country. Most of the comments i received criticised our Taoiseach Brian Cowen for his lack of leadership and his inability to communicate any information be it good or bad to the people of
Like everybody else I know we’re in a mess so shouldn’t be incumbent on our political leaders to actually lead by example? Am I alone Could but should An Taoiseach not start by issuing a rallying state of the nation address heralding the news that TDs Salaries have been capped at €80,000 (or less) and that their expenses have been cut by 90 per cent? He could then announce an immediate cut in VAT thus reducing prices and possibly reducing the numbers travelling cross border to save on grocery bills thereby keeping people in jobs in this country.
I know we’re part of Europe but isn’t it ridiculous that a lot of the Government spend goes abroad on things like printing – thereby hammering the print industry and putting people out of work. Our road contracts are also going abroad when the money should be kept at home, and before someone emails explaining that under EU law contracts have to be tendered by law isn’t it about time we looked at ways to keep these contracts at home.
And don’t say it can’t be done, when the government needed to keep the tax on imported cars they invented VRT Tax and bypassed EU regulations. A little less heated rhetoric combined with even a little leadership would go a long way.
I think we way people are talking we should prepare for a policital change on June 5.