"Green" policies are destroying this country

Those foxes are a bit like the greens in that they have not thought it through.

They are going to be seriously fcuked when the wolves are let loose.

Explain this to me.

Capitalism has always been about maximising profits. (I’m not saying I agree with it at all by the way).

You have to generate wealth for tax.

Tax pays for the society we all enjoy.

If you reduce consumption as that poster infers, you reduce wealth and hence tax- which impacts services.

we have managed to knot ourselves up over this capitalism thing, it truly wasnt always like this

we re also knotting ourselves up over all this wealth generation and taxation thingy to, most wealth is currently generated by inflating asset prices such as stocks, shares, bonds, land, real estate etc etc, its actually not being created via the creation of goods and services, this is whats called a rentier economy, its highly dangerous for everyone, including those that financial gain, as it causes a rapid rise in wealth inequality and highly unstable economies and societies, as we re now starting to experience...

to add insult, we ve decided the best thing to do is tax this wealth as little as possible, and move the requirement of taxation more towards labour and consumption, this in turn is helping to hammer the sh1t out of the labour force, and ramp up consumption, in order to try meet our tax requirements, this to is now starting to collapse....

...what we should be doing is increase taxation in the accumulation of wealth, using tools that helps to spread out the benefits of such wealth, methods such as sovereign wealth funds etc etc, and in turn, encourage the reduction of consumption...

...will any of this be done, probably not.....

Met eireann struggle to predict 7 days ahead but climatologists can predict 100 years ahead and paleontologist 1000 years ago and it it's accuracy is not meant to be questioned. Hilarious stuff

I know numerous people in my locality whom are born and rared here whom can't get planning beside their parents. Refused point blank, watch rte tonight at 10.15 and it will open your eyes to the planning in Ireland.

I’ll watch it alright but I have a fairly decent grasp on the Planning system in Ireland. It’s far from perfect.

the fact is though we’re now heading into a period of serious population growth in this country, both urban and rural. Our planning system must find a way to allow for sustainable, scalable rural living. One off housing, ribbon development, housing estates on the edge of towns etc, all these policies we have followed for about the last 30-50 years, have had a massively detrimental effect on the country, made us car dependent, and killed our rural towns. We know this - the evidence is in front of us with the dereliction you see in nearly every rural town/village in Ireland.

the only way I see this can stop is to make our towns and villages vibrant again, which means getting more people living in them.

Typically green bullshit answer when they can't address the point . Your contribution is invaluable....

The dereliction of the town, village center is more bad planning by county developers. Allowing shopping centers with Currys, b and q etc to be built 5 miles outside the town did more for car dependence than anyone building a house in the sticks. Just look at naas for example 2 shopping parks Built at either end of the town with nothing in the center and a ring road between the parks. If you want to shop you have to drive out of the town.

7 days ahead.

I wold be happy if they could manage two in a row.

You don't understand rural towns or villages. I live in a one-off. The local businesses in the town get as much custom from people living outside the village, like me, as from people physically living in it.

What's killing off rural towns and villages is Dublin - the great attractor problem. It hoovers up the lions share of well paying jobs in the country so the young from villages and towns mostly gravitate there.

You can really see this with most of the vocal anti-one-off brigade on boards, claiming they know what it's like, as they have rural roots and are from beyond the pale themselves. All too stupid to relize they are in fact themselves, the cause of the decline they love to blame on rural one off dwellers, who actually support their local village or town by living in it's commercial and social catchment area, while they themseleves are working a well paying IT job in Dublin regularly venting their spleen at the evil one-offers being responsible for rural decline. That is when they aren't the one hysterically screaming about the issue, from their flat in London.

The hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness is mental.

I give you exhibit A ⬆︎

Thank you, that's what I call perfect timing.