A Chara,
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Navajo proverb.
The expense of holding an election must be questioned in these times of cutbacks. Expenses that political parties seem to have no trouble in finding to spread untruths about their future plans for the Irish people. All the parties are the same; they produce money for postage, posters and workers. And at the same time, we have people lying in corridors of hospitals.
What is the need for elections? All parties will just be yes men to the multinationals and hard men on the poor and the weak. Has any party come up with the plan to get the people of the State back into employment, not the SES that was so proudly boasted about for the west, but real employment that will generate money for the State. Has any party stated that it will reverse the cut to the old and disabled payments?
All we are getting is the same old stories. We do not need to spend badly needed money to hear the same old tales. To hear that one party is better suited to lead the State. What we need to hear is plans to get the State back into order that the State will be run for the people, not the bankers and their friends. We need a good basic medical care, we need good education facilities for our children, and we need our older citizens to be care for properly.
I question the right of political parties to spend money on electing them into power, to sit and make more cutbacks to services for the ordinary people while giving bonuses to the rich.
Is mise,
Michael Rooney
McHale Road
Castlebar.
