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"extreme business right or the neo-liberal agenda".
The government should concern it’s self with delivering the best and most efficient healthcare to the citizens of this country. They should not allow the vested interests within the health service to dictate how services are delivered nor should they take anything other than a pragmatic approach when formulating policy.By giving responciblility for health care to private industry you immidiatly put the focus on profit rather than health care. I have no problem with private indutry by the way. A governments only role is not or should not be just to act as a regulator of the free market.
Rubbish. Corruption is when people act outside the law by offering or accepting inducements to influence decisions. Incompetence is when the government is inefficient and wasteful and cannot effectively enforce the laws and rules it enacts or execute policies it adopts.And it is not government Incompetence its goverment curruption. that is a very important distinction. Incompetence suggests goverment bundling along, curruption is where gouvernment activly sides with business at the expence or ordinary citizzens.
Incorrect. They seek to prevent distortion of the open market. There is a big difference between the two.A key and central implication of this treaty is the idea there should be no distortion of the free market. that is one of the central messages of this treaty.
Answered in the rest of that quote.Why?
Maybe. Certainly that's how the Irish Times and FF will explain a NO, dismissing any possibility of rejection on merit.
Because it is a fact there is evidence. i have done some research on Education policy and education in Europe and it is factual that business is becoming more and more influencial in this sector and it is my view that education is suffering and will continue to suffer because of this. I am not some looney conspiricy theorist but business interests are dominating in europe today. You may see this as acceptable. I think citizens need to balance the need for business to thrive with the needs of citizens to live in a fair society. and these two things are not mutually inclusive. Sometimes business exploits and treats people unfairly. Yes one answer to this is government regulation. But another is to keep essential public services like health and education in the hands of the public sector. And yes we need public sector reform but not privitisation.
Rubbish. Corruption is when people act outside the law by offering or accepting inducements to influence decisions.
there are levels of curruption. You can not just say that because
Yes, but none of this explains how you can justify branding others with labels like "the extreme business right" or "the neo-liberal agenda", while at the same time you accuse others of being McCarthyite.
Just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't necessarily mean that they are "extreme" or "neo-con".
I disagree that it is necessara;ly corruption but I agree that it is undesirable. Abe Lincoln said it best when he said that government should be “By the people, of the people and for the people”.Yes of cource you are right on this definition of curruption but it is not the only definition or explaination of curruprion.it is also where the government sides with the needs of business over the needs of people. Curruption takes on many forms and is a fluid concept. Sometimes business inlfuence laws/sets the agenda for laws to suits their own agenda the expence of peoples social need. for me this is no less curruption.
The government should concern it’s self with delivering the best and most efficient healthcare to the citizens of this country.
The great thing about representative democracy is that if our government does act in the way you have outlined we can elect a different one.
I think you'll find that many people will use their brain when deciding and many will vote NO based on what's in the treaty, and despite eclectic mix on the NO side, rather than vote Yes simply because of who's for a NO.
Yes, I received the 'booklet'. I'm not going to read it...etc
You are absolutely correct and I will be using my brain and voting yes, as opposed to believing the garbage and hypocrcy peddled by former terrorists and child killers about "neutrality", garbage peddled by purveyors of failed political "isms" such as marxism and garbage peddled by people like Patrica McKenna who is anti everything without having a creative idea in her brain
purveyors of failed political "isms" such as marxism.
As were many in the main steam of Irish politics.For all the posters that use not siding with the loonies as a reason to vote Yes, can I take it that you are/were for example in favour of the Iraq liberation, use of Shannon as a stop over by US military etc?
These are the same groups vehemently opposed to both.
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