As an educator, I'm against it. Our kids have enough difficulty learning Irish and English at school. What would it be like if they had to master Cantonese, too?
We need a whole new system.
The banks HQ's are in Dublin, Leinster
As a proud Munster man, I hope we secede, let Leinster deal with the NAMA and banking debts.
lol! True. We got the Pharma's down here in Cork too, which are doing big business at the moment too. Time for Cork to separate into it's own Canton perhaps?
It will come as no surprise that I am a fan of Switzerland, but introducing a federal cantonal system here would possibly make things worse from a government expenditure point of view. Unless the powers of government are restricted I believe that the result here would be radical increase in taxation and government interference at all levels. The other option is the participatory democracy, which seems to work very well in restraining government actions by public mandate. As you say though, anything is better than our current system where politicians do as they like.Isn't it time we admit our system of government is an enormous failure, and perhaps look at alternatives? Should we split our country into Cantons, like the Swiss?
"The concepts of devolution of power, local autonomy, and participatory democracy have produced the world's most peaceful and prosperous country. Of course, Switzerland, with its compulsory military service, state controlled monetary system, railroad and telephone services, and taxation, is not a pure libertarian society – but for those interested in reining in out-of-control governments in other parts of the world, there are large parts of the Swiss cantonal system that are worthy of emulation. "
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We have an out-of-control and particularly useless government. We need a whole new system. Our country is broken, and tinkering around isn't going to fix it. We need to go radical. Arguments for? Against?
But 'we' are the problem and the systems of politics and public administration are those that 'we' demand.
I listened to an item on Pat Kenny last week about Martin Mansergh and Mattie McGrath doing constituency walkabouts in Clonmel. The opinions expressed by the locals, with regard to what they expected of their TD, were almost alien to me, yet their vote is as valid as mine. We the people have too many vested interestes in the system as it is and a radical change is simply not possible.
The other option is the participatory democracy, which seems to work very well in restraining government actions by public mandate.
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