You cannot build a healthy economy based on erosion of local means of support and their replacement with Western means of support.
This is exactly what the Western Powers desire, because it means the country stops being self-supporting in terms of food and medicines and loses its own manufacturing base.
Does this sound suspiciously familiar? Look at the game played with the Irish economy over the past few decades.
Not only have we built sprawling housing estates accessed by car on some of the best farming land in Ireland (Tallaght) our own indigenous industries have been steadily eroded.
Fishing, Clothing, Agriculture, all gone or going.
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Perhaps its because I've lived here through all this for almost five decades that I see it all quite clearly - half a century gives you a great sense of perspective.
Yes we can buy the latest knock-off fashions in Dunnes for a €10 note, but we're not seeing streets full of High Fasion, we're seeing streets full of cheap knock offs.
Yes you can kit your kids out for €100 but you'll have to do it again in six months because you've let their TV habits and personal development turn them into consumer drones driven by marketing and peer pressure.
Yes we can buy sardines from Spain for a few pence, but we have no Irish Fishing Fleet worth a damn.
Yes you can get strawberries from Chile, but what happened our own farming industry?
We have the ridiculous situation of have exported the sprawl of two story estates to far flung corners of Ireland because of Fianna Fáils ridiculous National Spatial Strategy which means yet more good land was lost.
And at the same time when Brazil is running its nation on alcohol we let our own Sugar Beet Industry go to the dogs - Glanbia anyone?
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Even in terms of European integration we have been unwise, failing to strengthen the newer member states economies sufficiently before letting them join the Euro.
Some Eastern European cultures have seen an entire generation leave for the West. I think Latvia - and please don't hesitate to correct me if I'm wrong - has seen almost all its 20-35 year olds emigrate to more attractive economies.
At one point Ireland had become Little Poland there were so many Polish people working and living here.
What mass devastation have we done to ourselves and our culture, with only the caricature of the Eurovision to remind ourselves of our once vibrant diversity?
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But for all that has been lost I remain optimistic about what we can no do to regain what was best and reject what was worst.
The seeking after sustainable local economies and energy usage can continue apace and with greater resources in a European State.
It means that we have to guard our freedoms better especially from the Gombeen Men amongst us.
Little Hitlers every one of them, with a propensity for hypocrisy and corruption in their blood.
Fail to monitor them, the Bankers and the Politicians, and they will bleed us dry and smile.
Fail to act in any way and watching them will have achieved nothing.
I leave how YOU act up to your conscience.
There is a Presidential Race coming up...
ONQ.