National Day of Action

The Irish Observer.Blogspot.com would like to salute all those people who take to the streets of Ireland today to protest against this inept Government and its failed policies. While the Government continues to provide tens of billions of Euro to Bankers and Property Speculators in order to dig them out of their self made economic grave, good people are losing their jobs, their homes and in some cases their lives. The Government put nothing aside for a rainy day they simply lived like Lords and introduced policies that would see this country face its worst economic decline in its history. This Government continues to bail out bankers and speculators while allowing the tax payer to fall into the depths of despair, this Government is not fit for purpose and therefore should follow John O Donoghue's example and resign its position. If this Government was a private company its entire Board of Management would be sacked, its failures would be testimony to the need for a people centred Government that is driven by innovation and imagination, not greed and self serving. Our Front line staff are being attacked on an almost daily basis by the Government and it's intellectual mouth-pieces, men and women who have lost their jobs through not fault of their own are being brutalised by mealy mouthed cuts in social welfare payments such as rent supplement. Families already at breaking point are being forced from their homes by the same corrupt bankers who caused this economic crisis in the first instance due to their inept management systems and criminal lending on the basis of assets that did not for the most part exist.

NAMA will be established to bail out bankers and speculators while the decent people in this country face the bailiffs. This Government spent tens of millions on personal luxuary travel and expenses to fullfil their greedy and self serving needs, they continue to live a life detached from the reality of those living under the threat of the bailiff or the P45. This country can no longer afford this Government, unless this Government is replaced Ireland is heading into an economic depression that can only be compared to the 1920s and 30s, this Government hopes that if it drives down basic welfare support payments it will force women out of the work force and back into the home and it will force young people to leave the country in their tens of thousands, this was the same approach used by Fianna Fail in the 1980s, we must stop them and we must stop them now.