The facts are, our economy has been destroyed, our financial sector is collapsed and we are witnessing a rising tide of unemployment and dispossession. So far despite the billions spend on corrupt and failed financial institutions there are no indications of improvements and we are to expect worse to come. I imagine therefore there are many of you all asking the same question I am, how did we get here? what have we learnt? and what do we do now?
Do we try and rebuild on the same designs and system failures? do we continue with a political system and class that has failed this country? do we still believe in this government?
The answer must be clear, we do not.
When a situation becomes untenable we must exercise our will and reason to act, we must consider the imperative. Our imperative is our society, our community, our shared history and determination not to surrender to defeat, our imperative is believing in the next generation but also providing the foundation for civic leadership and ethical government.
This government supported by its senior civil servant’s is built on a foundation of shame, on guilt and promotion of corruption; protecting the interest of the few while violating the interests of its citizens. Civil society must protect its members and defend their rights and common interests.
It is imperative that we as citizens decide that this government has had its day.
This government has to fall, the political system is broken, the same system allowed the election of this government and now protects those that are responsible for laying the foundations of our current crisis, a system that lets those responsible walk free, with generous pensions and bonuses protecting government workers, state appointees and top civil servants on massive salaries and benefits.
Our political system does not deserve to be defended but rather taken apart and put back together again. It has proven to be very creative at letting people off the hook for criminal behaviour, no one has yet to be held accountable for all its many failures, it is a system designed to facilitate failure and criminal behaviour, its allows the law to be bent, the rules to be broken, no one to be held accountable.
In order for us to get out of this disaster, each of us has to look to the future, to work for our collective interests not self interest, to built an ethical future that will inspire the next generation, we need to remove the element of fear, apathy and anger and build a future of hope, support and a brighter vision for modern Ireland.
THE FUTURE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.
NOW IS THE TIME TO SAY WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH.
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