What’s happening on the HSE board?
The HSE has failed to appoint two directors.
Two jobs which are vital to the future shape of Irish healthcare.
The board was unable to agree on who should be appointed and decided to appoint no one.
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I’ve written this to David McWilliams…
PaulOMahonyCork
| 02 Apr 2009 8:08 am
David McWilliams,
This time you tap into one of our core experiences: we’ve put money into the banks in order to get the economy moving again and, instead, we’ve got no such result. So it feels like money down the drain. So why would we want to put any more into the hands of the same people?
For this reason (and others) we are all looking for a different way.
You suggest such a different way forward.
Because I have lost confidence in almost everyone else, I’m inclined to trust your instincts. After all, you couldn’t make half as much a mess of it as the government has done so far.
However, we have formidable foes. The government is not a neutral party there to be swayed by the democratic debate. It is an active party to the manipulation of the economy for the benefit of a tiny group.
The government has deliberately depressed the economy over recent months.
Today we’ll see further evidence of Mr Lenihan’s success. The public finances deteriorate by the second, as a result of the government.
So, when it comes to budget day, the government will say ‘there is nothing else we can do. Look how bad things are. You have to let us put things right…’ And so on.
The government has only one thing on its mind: how can we stay in government? How can we ensure we last to term? How can we ensure sufficient social ‘rest’ that our clique can cling to power.
Unless you can persuade Fianna Fail that your plan will keep them in power, there is no chance the government will back it, I suggest.
However intelligent, logical, inspired your proposal, it has no chance of being considered carefully by the current government: their sole interest is politics, and politics means preventing the inside story of how they set up a facilitatory financial regime from coming out.
The full story will come out in time, but Mr Lenihan & Cowen are playing a blinder for the team that wants the public kept confused.
David, you’re an ideas man, an honest ideas man.
Ideas change nothing. Ideas only become powerful when people get behind them. It’s alliances we need to change our society. Those of us who love the inspiration you give us need to put aside our egos and build alliances for change.
And we’ll need to be out in the pubs, the markets, the schools, the dole queues… talking with other citizens, creating alliances and taking a few very clear demands to the point where we say “Enough” “Do our will, or Go, now…”
I realise this [David McWilliams blog] isn’t a straightforward political forum. I’m not economic enough perhaps, but let me thank you David, again, for rescuing me from the temptation to give up. What ever happens I’ll be all right - no doomsday scenario will hurt me. Because I have my mental health.
Health is wealth.
