Budget 2012: What TheJournal.ie's contributors are saying
TheJournal.ie brings you contributions from a huge range of people. We asked some of them to give their opinions on the Budget – and here’s what they said…
View ArticleColumn: Here’s how to fix the education system – and spend less money
We’re slipping in international tables even as the Government trumpets our ‘smart economy’ – so we need to take some lessons from Finland, writes Aaron McKenna.
View ArticleColumn: Why should our government have the right to hide from its citizens?
Our leaders are spending our money in our names, writes Aaron McKenna – so why won’t they let us know how?
View ArticleColumn: We need to create Irish jobs. Here’s how we can do it
Foreign investment is all well and good, writes Aaron McKenna, but only homegrown jobs will pull us out of recession. Here’s what we need to do…
View ArticleColumn: We should be giving jobless people the money we’re wasting
The funds we’re currently spending on make-work training programmes should be handed directly to unemployed people, writes Aaron McKenna.
View ArticleColumn: We need to stop taking money out of people’s pockets
Yes, we’ve got a deficit to deal with – but making ordinary consumers pay is hurting the wider economy as well as our wallets, writes Aaron McKenna.
View ArticleColumn: Our welfare system is wasteful – and a timebomb for our children
As benefits for the most vulnerable are cut, our system throws money at others who don’t need it, writes Aaron McKenna.
View ArticleCampaign launched to benchmark politicians' pay against 'real world'
The move would save €10.7million annually, campaigners say.
View ArticlePoll: Should politicians benchmark their pay against the 'real world'?
The ‘Real Pay’ politician says they should, saving millions each year, but does this understate the workload of a TD or minister?
View ArticleColumn: Smart economy? Schools are so hamstrung they’re cutting subjects
If we want that ‘knowledge economy’ we’re always hearing about, the Government needs a serious change of direction, writes Aaron McKenna.
View ArticleColumn: It’s time to privatise RTÉ and the DAA. Offload them now.
The two troubled semi-states are living in fantasyland, writes Aaron McKenna. Why should we keep them there?
View ArticleColumn: When is jailing a fraudster no cause to celebrate? When it’s in Ireland.
Our judicial system is selective and incoherent – and judges are so pampered they can’t even open doors for themselves, writes Aaron McKenna.
View ArticleColumn: Call that a stimulus? What we need is a tax cut.
The ‘stimulus’ announced this week won’t even move the needle, writes Aaron McKenna. So what should be done?
View ArticleColumn: Have we lost the ambition that put a man on the moon?
These are financially difficult times – but that doesn’t mean we should abandon the big projects that advance human knowledge, writes Aaron McKenna.
View ArticleAaron McKenna: What are we paying for the Dáil’s pointless pantomime?
Much Dáil business is an empty stage show – but there is a way we could make it better.
View ArticleAaron McKenna: How we all missed the week’s biggest story
Roisin Shortall’s resignation dominated the news this week – which may be a relief for some in Government.
View ArticleAaron McKenna: Enda is the darling of Time – but there’s trouble in Fine Gael
A proxy war is under way against the Taoiseach from within his own party, writes Aaron McKenna.
View ArticleAaron McKenna: Ireland used to have an opposition. Where is it now?
Fianna Fáil is hobbled and Sinn Féin aren’t credible – so Irish politics isn’t working properly.
View ArticleAaron McKenna: We know Ireland has talent – why stop it from growing?
Ireland’s ‘knowledge economy’ is actually waiting to happen, writes Aaron McKenna.
View ArticleAaron McKenna: The Constitution is ours – so why aren’t we writing it?
Real people power would look very different to this fiction of engagement.
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