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May 29th, 2009
Government and Multinational Support for Start-ups
The future growth of the country is in the hands of those in the multinational sector who have the gumption and support to leave and start exporting businesses of their own. They will have the contacts in low wage economies to lower the cost of starting up and then as they grow start employing more [...]
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May 28th, 2009
Become Cheap
We need to get out of the Euro and become cheap again in order to compete with China and other nations with cheaper labour than us.
Another idea is to tax all imports from the far east just enough to make it not worthwhile for multi-nationals to close down factories here and move eastwards.
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May 28th, 2009
Bord Iascaigh Mhara
The recent transfer of the marketing remit from BIM to Bord Bia is a step in the right direction as up until now, seafood has been treated as non-food by Bord Iascaigh Mhara and this category has been under-developed in comparison to other food products. Various agencies currently assist the seafood sector with aspects of [...]
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May 28th, 2009
Incentive for Employers
With the increasing numbers of people on Social Welfare, the government should introduce grants to businesses to employ a person for a minimum of 1 year. The grant could be the equivalent of 50% of the cost of social welfare benefit for the year. Additionally the employer could be offered a grant [...]
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May 28th, 2009
Borrowing is only going to dig us into deeper hole
I’m writing this from the Starbucks at the world’s largest shopping centre; the place is vast. Westfield in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, opened last October.
With 300 shops and 50 restaurants, it makes Dundrum Town Centre look like a 1950s Londis in Cavan.
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May 24th, 2009
Lenihan’s life-support machine
There is a strange similarity between the predicament of our banks and that of our Church. When you think about it, both the banks and the Catholic Church dealt in that rarest of commodities, trust. When we trusted them, they could sell us practically any old stuff. Make it up on the hoof, in some cases.
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May 24th, 2009
Philantrophy
I went to a talk the other week about mythological heroes in the traditional sense of the word. The one facet is that traditionally they do not act for personal gain, but for the greater good of society.
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May 24th, 2009
Coop
I think it might be a good idea to have a co-op as such online. A place where people could advertise their services, share information, promote Irish products particularly oraganic and health friendly. I am a bit mad at the moment. Jacobs moving out. That is an absolute [...]
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May 24th, 2009
Quit the euro
While accepting the risks involved. Its time to think outside the box. The euro is an anchor but it anchors us far from where we need to be. Devalue and start afresh.
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May 21st, 2009
Replace Imports
I will keep this simple.
This idea will not save the world, or even solve global warming, but it will provide valuable employment for those involved.
I propose that we:
1. Scan our imports list for relatively simple products that could be manufactured in Ireland.
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May 21st, 2009
Privatise the public sector
Privatise the public sector it is such a drain on the economy and is bankrupting the state especially with the implementation of the benchmarking scheme well done Berte another issue you caved on.even consider privatising the heath system at least then there would be more efficiency and accountability look at Belgium fully privatised and the [...]
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May 20th, 2009
Hung out to dry, but the Jugglers must survive
Two years ago, in the book and accompanying TV series ‘The Generation Game’ I suggested that the imminent recession would be severe and would affect the generations differently.
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May 20th, 2009
Dramatic Wind/Hydro solution to Ireland’s Economic problems
Hi David,
We could use your and others in the Blogging community blog to spread an important message and create debate. Have a look at my blog yesterday…
http://earthanduniverse.blogspot.com/2009/05/ireland-can-prosper-within-5-years.html
More importantly please go to www.SpiritofIreland.org
This is a powerful solution to Ireland’s problems designed by professional volunteers and there are no big business interests trying to make a killing…it’s [...] -
May 20th, 2009
Employment – Easy 30,000 jobs in the services sector
An easy way to create more than 30,000 jobs in the services sector for Irish nationals who are currently on the dole is to remove the right of non-EU students to pursue employment in the state. Most of the genuine students (going to Universities, ITs etc..) don’t use this
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May 20th, 2009
Tweak our welfare system
There has has been a lot of talk and rumours of people scamming the system, and even foreign people flying into the country with the sole purpose of collecting our generous dole, I think our system needs to be tweaked and better monitored. My suggestion would be to bring in finger print analysis, meaning every [...]
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May 17th, 2009
Why bail out our bust banks?
Last Wednesday morning, the dole queue on High Road in Letterkenny extended for about half a mile, out past the social welfare office, up past the Mace supermarket and on up towards the roundabout and De Valera Road. Up to the right is the ghost estate of empty houses which will never sell and will be used to house welfare recipients – locals and immigrants.
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May 13th, 2009
Collapse in house prices will be good for economy
Many people in recent weeks have tried to explain what is happening to the economy.
How can we visualise why credit has dried up? How do we rationalise the fact that we went from a situation of so much money we didn’t know what to do with it, to a situation of no cash at all? Where did it all go?
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May 13th, 2009
Leviathan: The Economy vs The Environment
19 May 2009
20:00 – 23:00
Button Factory (formerly Temple Bar Music Centre), Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
In association with Delta Index
Join host David McWilliams for a fiery public conversation on how environmental issues and the green agenda are compromised by economic crisis or whether they can be mutually beneficial.
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May 11th, 2009
Exposing the lie of the land
Take a long look at the chart below. Digest it. Maybe look again if you have to. This happened in the most sophisticated economy in the world.
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May 10th, 2009
Rewind to 2005
Dear David,
I read your article (“Ditching the euro could boost our failing economy”, Irish Independent, May 6) with interest. Your articles are always stimulating.
I feel the political and social imperatives of the euro outweigh any European territory´s economic problems, such as Ireland´s and indeed the euro has been to our advantage (look at Iceland, [...] -
May 10th, 2009
Immigration and employment
An easy way to create more than 30,000 jobs in the services sector for Irish nationals who are currently on the dole is to remove the right of non-EU students to pursue employment in the state. Most of the genuine students (going to Universities, ITs etc..) don’t use this right anyway. Its only used by [...]
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May 10th, 2009
New Knowledge for House Building
The knowledge of Vastu (Sthapatya Veda) was unfolded to the world or re-enlivened for the world by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in a public way in 2006 in an internet broadcast on Global Family Chat on http://www.maharishichannel.in . This brought to light ancient principles of architecture, where buildings should be built with correct orientation, in tune [...]
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May 10th, 2009
Change Our Voting System
The incentives of our current voting system are all wrong. We need a list system to ensure that politicians and political parties (a) put national interests over local interests (b) put ideas and vision before potholes and “pork politics”, (c) stop spending their time in their own constituencies and spend it in the Dail, considering [...]
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May 6th, 2009
Enterprise Ireland drop matched funding
Hi,
I returned to Ireland about two years ago and setup a software company.
We currently have distribution in the US, Japan and Europe and are making a profit. I went to Enterprise Ireland to look for help in growing the business as I needed to take on 3 new employees to fulfill the distributors requests [...] -
May 6th, 2009
SME Marriage Fund
My idea comes from the premise that there is not enough business in Ireland to keep all the SME’s we have going. So they need to export their goods and services. To help this county enterprise boards should profile all the SME’s in their region and then with the help of Enterprise Ireland find suitable [...]
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