Just think of it -- "
Imagine" -- a "
Bank of Mayo",
a "
Bank of Dublin", a "
Bank of Kerry",
Sligo,
Cork,
Donegal,
Limerick,
Longford, Wexford,
Galway,
Tipperary,
Roscommon, and so on for the whole of our
26
Counties -- all of them "
of the people,
by the people, for the people", and the whole
Group of
26 "safe and secure" for
present and
future
generations: under the
watchful, caring eyes and
protective wings of
"
The Bank of The Republic of Ireland" (owned by the
people of the Republic of Ireland).
We would hardly
know ourselves -- would
we?==================
Change of
mindsetby Wishing Wed Feb 24,
2010 17:13
I believe we really do
have a problem with
tribalism regarding the way we
vote here, but, no more, or at least not all that much more,
than other nations have at the present time.
Also,
there is reason to believe that things may be
starting to
really change in some places regarding this issue: thanks
largely to the present
global banking crisis it
seems.
"It's
an evil wind indeed that does not blow some
good."For example, I've just read a recent
article about the way a lot of people in certain parts of the
United States seem to be abandoning political parties,
or at least putting their differences to one side to a very
large extent, in the search for
innovative,
real, and
lasting solutions to the banking
crisis (and all of the
closely associated and disastrous
social problems connected with it) -- and
happily
finding that there may well be major benefits for
local
communities, and for
society as a whole, by so
doing.
Basically, it seems that a growing number of
political candidates (and their supporters) -- belonging to
different political parties -- are together
proposing that
states generate their own
credit by
setting up their own
banks.
How I wish that a movement of
that kind might soon start up here in the Republic of
Ireland.
If such a "movement" was to suddenly appear
here in the Republic of Ireland, being carried straight to us
on a hare's back, it wouldn't be half fast enough for me:
particularly if the same "movement" applied itself, at the
same time, to stopping the "
Great
Giveaway" of our much needed
oil and gas
reserves (reported to be worth
5.4 trillion
Euros): which,
AMAZINGLY it seems to me, and
for reasons best known to themselves (that I suspect might not
be of the best kind),
ALL of our
main
political parties appear to be
hell-bent on
pressing ahead with (
full-steam!!).
The text of
the "
Truthout" article
in question (which relates to the United States only
unfortunately at the present time) can be viewed at:
http://www.truthout.org/more-candidates-favoring-state-owned-banks57106==================
The
text in the section immediately above has been copied from the
following
Indymedia
(Ireland) location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/95793#comment265527==================
"You
haven't an arm, you haven't a leg
The enemy nearly
slew you
You'll have to go out on the streets to
beg
Oh, poor Johnny, what've they done to
you?"
Military Band Leader
Patrick
Gilmore -- the "Glynn Miller" (sort of) of the
American Civil War -- who came from
Ballygar
(County Galway), and who was the author of
"When Johnny Comes Marching
Home", is said to have informed someone, in 1863,
that "
Johnny I Hardly
Knew Ya" (an old Irish folk song) provided him with
much of the basic material he used for "When Johnny Comes
Marching Home" -- a song which has turned out to be one of the
most enduring of that period, and which continues to this day
to be a firm favourite with the military bands of the United
States of
America.
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