Saturday, November 20, 2010

IRLAND IN A CRISIS.. A SENTIMENTAL ARTICLE. WITH SOME SIMILARITIES WITH GREEC SITUATIONS

''..There are two health systems here, for example. One is for middle-class people who pay health insurance and the other for those who can't afford to pay. There are short waiting lists for one, and long waiting lists for the other. Often, both see the same doctors, who treat the first group in private hospitals, or private rooms in public hospitals, and the second group in public hospitals.
Everyone here knows that the difference can be a matter of life and death. Some of the doctors make a fortune. There has been no serious effort to reform this, but many efforts instead to copper-fasten it. This is one example of what sovereignty has done to us.
What sovereignty has done to us also is to create a political system in Ireland in which political vision or skill or seriousness are not valued. The four main Irish politicians, for example – the taoiseach, the tánaiste (the deputy prime minister), the minister for finance and the leader of the opposition – all come from political tribes; all of their fathers were members of parliament as well..''

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