JakeC
Last Man Standing 2 champion 2020/21
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its sick
Politicians get travel to work allowances, they get an allowance for turning up at work (think it's something in the region of €60 per day) but yet they can justify or have the neck to cut mobility allowance for people with disabilities.
I just don't know, ignorance? Greed?
If it was either or them, then surely we just wouldn't vote?
Also the lack of an 'obvious' alternative.
The general public seem to have the following 'one line' opinions on most parties. Some of which I agree with, some not.
Fianna Fail - Inept and corrupt
Fine Gael - See above
Labour - Bottlers
Sinn Feinn - Terrorists
Socialist Party - Communists
Socialist Workers Party - Mad Communists
The Workers Party - Communist Terrorists
Learned helplessness is a psychological state where people feel powerless to change their self or situation. This is primarily caused when people attribute negative things in life to internal, stable and global factors. Essentially, it means that the person feels as if change is not possible, since there is a pervasive and unchangeable personal problem
Yeah actually, saying people are apathetic is a bit of a lazy analysis from me, they're not really.
Here's the definition of learned helplessness though:
Obviously the country doesn't actually suffer from learned helplessness but it's a pretty good shorthand for how people seem to feel. If people are unhappy with government they could vote for another party. If they're not happy with other parties they could start a new one. But they don't, they just say all politicians are the same really and keep voting for the same people.
Can someone tell me who is considered to be the most right leaning party in the south? i can never work it out.
Whenever I tell people that I'm an aspiring politician and or interested in Politics, I'm just presumed to be a massive wanker.
Which in fairness, is true. I am a wanker, but not because I like politics.
Can someone tell me who is considered to be the most right leaning party in the south? i can never work it out.
If there was a party full of jakec's voted into power in the morning how would you go about fixing the cnut of a mess we're in?
Would you abolish the property tax straight away? How would you go about looking after the most vulnerable people in society and still manage to keep that shower of shites at the IMF and trocaire happy?
Out of all the major parties, it's pretty close between Fianna Fail, and Fine Gael.
Ireland is different as the two main parties (see above) were not separated in there leanings on the left/right liberal/conservative scale.
Ironically both parties descend from Sinn Feinn originally.
The main historic difference between Fianna Fail, and Fine Gael is the different views they held on the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921. Fianna Fail were against the treaty, whilst Fine Gael were for it.
Hence Fianna Fail call themselves the 'Republican Party'
This however holds little or no bearings in today's society, as neither party are exactly Republicans. However they would consider themselves 'Center Right' parties, although the cynics, and the left would consider themselves pretty much right wing.
Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are far from socialist.
True but if they were in America they'd probably be considered left wing/ Democrats. Then again, that's America.
Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are far from socialist.
Whenever I tell people that I'm an aspiring politician and or interested in Politics, I'm just presumed to be a massive wanker.
Which in fairness, is true. I am a wanker, but not because I like politics.
But that the problem. In Ireland all you need is neck. Whether it be a politician,company director, to get promotion etc. feck all ability is required in many cases. You could be the biggest idiot in politics or a company and make it to the top on neck alone.
What's the buzz on the property tax? I see that year one was 100E for every property, now it's a sliding scale based on value of the property (and land it's on presumably). Is it headed the way of the property tax system similar to what we have here in the US where the local jurisdictions set the tax rates (1% of assessed value, or similar)?
"The tax, expected to be levied at an initial rate of 0.25 per cent of the property value..."
ok. betcha that 0.25% will be increased.
so, as that rate comes into effect (and then increases over time) will the taxes due at state level then decrease? or are you just going to get f*cked royally?
''Frape, where a child is raped on facebook''
''Sinn Feinn are good at talking about solutions, but when it comes to acting on them, it's a different story'' - Eamon Gilmore.
Now as a neutral in this debate, it's sort of hard to act on solutions when you're not in power.
They are in NI and they do the exact things they criticise the Governenet about here. They are all cnuts