Sold

Ireland has been sold and I believe it to be true. German, American, British banks and others it would seem have coerced, and pushed Ireland into accepting a bailout that suited those countries, but not Ireland. I'm not a financial wizard, but it's really hurting the country, and not just financialy. There's a deep mistrust of politicians. It's going to be like religion. No faith in the organs of power to do anything right.

I see a situation where politicians get less and less votes, and therefore represent fewer and fewer people. But there will always be politicians. They're like anyone else in society, trying to make ends meet. But they do it by lying, cheating and stealing from the people who elected them, and everyone else. And yet people still put they're faith in the 'one' person that can lead us out of poverty and back to the promised land.

To me it's very much like religion. We pray to the saints. But these were men and women, living people. You may as well go to the local graveyard, pick a name at random and pray to them. OK, the difference you say is that they're holy. What? Some guy in a dress elected by a bunch of other guys wearing silly hats says these dead people are to be revered and that our salvation depends on our devotion to them. Twaddle.

We're not going to make things better for ourselves by doing what we're told. We won't make anything better by doing what we want, and we certainly won't make things better by sitting on the fence passively doing nothing. But I'm wondering, at what point do we start asking questions? Is it when we have sucked the will out of everyone to get out and get a job, a life? Educate people enough so that they can question things, but not enough to rock the boat.