End the Bureaucracy - Vote Igor Thunderbrow and Eamon_de Valera
Igor Thunderbrow
A dhaoine uaisle,
Vote Igor Thunderbrow & Eamon_de Valera For a More Streamlined, Efficent Government
My issues with the current administration can be summed up in two words, bureaucracy and red tape.
A man who shares this view and has been an outspoken critic of Government mismanagement of funds in Eamon_de Valera, IUP congressman for the Northwest. I have selected him as my candidate for Tánaiste. He has worked hard to promote sensible spending of public funds. If elected Eamon will take a prominent role in looking after the country's finances to ensure that wasteful government spending is a thing of the past. Eamon shares my vision for a streamlined and more efficent government that works for the benefit of the eIrish people not the bureaucratic elite.
I have confidence that Eamon is the man for the job to help work towards a better government that works better for you.
Red Tape and a Screen of Convoluted Paperwork
The past administration hid behind a wall of long winded paperwork to cover up their inaction. Their first actual action was their sanctioning of our, what I view to be the undemocratic, accession to the ESA. Have we actually done anything withing the ESA? Has joining the ESA actually benefited a single eIrish citizen? I think not
Their only actual bill to be put to the Dáil (until a few days ago) was the Regional Assembly Bill. All this did was bloat the bureaucracy. Three hundred and sixty words and fifty two hours of dicussion, the result, six new forum sections, which have yet to be actually implemented I might add.
Then their only bill that actually does anything it Stark Hayter's "Referendum Policy and Referendum Organisation Bill", which guidelines the structuring of a referendum. This is of course welcome but it took extensive campaigning from myself and the Irish Union Party to get it done, after the eIrish people's democratic values were attacked by our accession into the ESA on the whim of eleven congressmen.
On the other hand the Irish Union Party has come up with real proposals and taken an active role in advancing our great country. After months of procrastination by various governments my campaigns for a constitution to be ratified and recognised by the Dáil came to fruition today. Now we have a true basis for our democracy, a framework for our great nation.
It was also new Irish Union Party congressman for Dublin Severin who proposed a cutting of the citizen fee which was recently passed by congress. This will help bring an end to money being wasted by going to new citizens who only play for a day. Then another IUP congressman Vyse had the innovative idea of paying 5IEP to anyone who registers on the eIreland forum. Thus thanks to the IUP, much money will be saved from going to new citizens who will play for only a day while at the same time not penalising citizens who plan on actually staying in eIreland.
For a Government unafraid to take action, vote Igor Thunderbrow and Eamon_de Valera.
State Companies
At the moment we have four state owned companies. In weapons, grain, housing and hospitals. Of these only the weapons and housing companies are active and until recently it was only the weapons company that actually produced anything.
Meanwhile two companies lie idle. The Irish Union Party believes in investment in the future. We believe that 1200 weapons is more than enough for the forseeable future. If elected the Irish Union Party will cease production of weapons and instead move towards long term investments in hospitals for the future of eIreland.
If elected our economic priorities will be to build hospitals for those regions that are without and to provide affordable housing for all eIrish citizens.
Housing
As I have mentioned previously the Irish Union Party wishes to concentrate heavily on providing affordable housing through the Irish State Housing Company initiative. To further this policy we wish to provide the eIrish public with a number of state backed financing schemes:
1) Renting: This was proposed by Vyse and will require an admin approved contrat to be signed between the government and a citizen in the eRepublik Forum contracts section. The citizen in question would pay weekly while in possession of the house and once they want to upgrade they can simply stop paying and give the house back (or the admin will take it off them...). This will be especially useful as it will save citizens the 8 or so GOLD required to buy a Q1 house which for many is just a stepping stone to higher quality housing.
2) Mortgage: This will be similar to the renting system but will give the citizen possession of the house. They will make weekly payments for a medium to long term period until the proce of the house and interest in paid off. This obviously has benefits for eIrish citizens like mortgages have in RL. It will require the meeting of similar requirements as in RL. This will not just apply to Irish State Housing Houses. I would hope to get a number of higher quality housing companies on board to provide this system to those requiring higer quality housing.
3) Bonds Saving Scheme: Under this scheme a citizen will pay a certain amount of money on a weekly basis and will recieve their money back with interest at a later period, the interest being incremental to the period saved and the amount invested. This has the dual benefits of allowing citizens to save sensibly for the future but also of providing cash on hand for government expenditure.
Eamon_de Valera as vice president will take a highly active role in ensuring that all these economic schemes run swimmingly. We wish to end government wastage and work towards a brighter future and future that is worth investing in.
Vote Igor Thunderbrow and Eamon_de Valera for an eIrish government free of needless red tape and bureaucracy,
Vote Igor Thunderbrow and Eamon_de Valera for an active government working for you,
Vote Igor Thunderbrow and Eamon_de Valera for innovative economic policies and sensible government expenditure.
Go raibh míle maith agaibh go léir,
Igor Thunderbrow
Comments
Our two most conservative eIrishmen running to win a socialist country?
Best of luck
You have my vote
I don't reckon the right wing vote exists in ireland. Eamon is outspokenly conservative, and Igor you do have your moments...
Wasteful government spending?
I have been in charge of the treasury and national bank, and State companies, and I can tell you that I haven't wasted anything.
With our population boom, there has been tremendous pressure for the IEP to appreciate. In the interest of stability, I have been releasing IEP into the market to counteract this. In so doing, I have increased our treasury by hundreds of gold.
The only other spending that has happened, is the cost of running the State companies. A 5 IEP wage to anyone that wants one, and the cost of purchasing raw materials.
About the State companies, in case you haven't noticed, I have not been hiring in weapons for many days now. In case you also haven't noticed, there are barely any lower-skilled manufacturing jobs out there. I cannot fire the employees, unless you want them to have their gained skills go to waste?
Also, if you check, Banc Ceannais now has a Q4 hospital company. Q4 hospitals is also something I have planning behind the scenes, estimating costs, etc. But Ireland lacks skilled construction workers, which was one of the reasons I opened the housing company.
You say you are against bureaucracy? Well that is exactly what I see with your renting, mortgage, and saving schemes. I don't have anything against them, but contracts, weekly payments, admin intervention, interest, loans, saving, etc. is hardly ending "needless red tape and bureaucracy".
Oh, and I also OPPOSED the Regional Assembly Bill, because I thought it was too much bureaucracy as well...
Re: Best President of eIreland?
Post by IgorT on Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:41 pm
"My vote goes to Collins. He was the only one to make major changes and really do anything major..."
I agree with sean. You are taking this party in a direction I am not comfortable with. Shocking... I am completely unsure of what my next move will be. Sorry Igor
OK... So the reason to elect Igor is because past government havent been upto his standards, fair enough. However how does this reflect upon Top Gun? who is firstly has never run for President, and secondly has nothing to do with the current administration?
You say too much spending, but wasnt it you Igor who wanted to ship people to another country to aid them, even tho we are neutral, isnt this needless spending?
Lastly, you say Bureaucracy, which means, Bureaucracy is the structure and set of regulations in place to control activity, usually in large organizations and government. However from what you have written, it would appear this is exactly what your attempting to accheive, infact more so than the current government!
So we should vote for you, because the money you waste is probably less than that we cant see, we should vote for you because more control by you means less control buy throwing the word socialist around.
Once again this clearly shows why Igor has failed multiple elections in the past, and that he is totally incompetent in any role that he has been given, or will receive in the future.
Vote Top Gun!
@Sean: I'm conservative? That is a first...
I am intrigued, what do you base that statement on?
Eamon_de Valera is an outspoken proponent of fiscal responsibility, sensible government spending. If that is conservative then I am conservative and I would say that most people are.
@Collins: Yes, I did notice all that you have mentioned it was all taken into consideration when I considered what I wrote above. Please don't take such a demeaning tone with me Michael. I do my research.
On the bureaucracy, no pointless positions like regional council (good to see that you agree with me by the way), no more ministerial appointments that do nothing, no more lengthy proposals with no end result.
That Micheal is ending "needless bureaucracy and red tape".
The economic schemes I have suggested are in not "needless red tape and bureaucracy". They are economic policies that I believe will go a long way to helping the eIrish people receive affordable housing.
I fail to understand how you can consider schemes that make housing available to a much wider number of citizens "needless red tape and bureaucracy" but I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinion.
As stated above, Cork and Kerry has no hospital. This is a travesty and should have been addressed a while ago. Sensible government spending would not have been in stockpiling 1500 units of grain, 1200 weapons and 400 gifts that are now lying unused in the factories.
Sensible government spending would have been towards infrastructure for the future.
"Have we actually done anything withing the ESA? Has joining the ESA actually benefited a single eIrish citizen? I think not"
Those are pretty negative words from someone who voted yes to committing to the ESA, saying "I support this, looking on the forums it looks rather promising." You knew then that it was simply an idea that needed a foundation and fleshing out and you voted to commit Ireland to helping found it, as did I.
The ESA now is as it was a few weeks ago when we joined, an idea that needed to be fleshed out. Unfortunately due to Atlantis/PEACE influence the ESA is a shell of what it could have been and most of the past week or two have been me and Theus trying to convince the other nations to not become a military alliance. Apparently, representing Irish opinion and fighting for a treaty that is worth our membership is "not doing anything" to Igor Thunderbrow. For someone who is so critical of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, you should figure out what you're talking about before you open your mouth.
Vote for Igor if you want, but my vote is going to someone who doesn't lash out at what he can't understand.
@ 5n4keyes: Thank you for your comment, it was much appreciated.
@ Aran Tal: Collins was a great president, I am not arguing with that.
@James: Well this is the direction we have been going since long before you joined...
and to answer 5n4keyes valid point about how this relates to Top Gun, I am not launching a campaign against Top Gun. I am telling you why I think you should vote for me, I have nothing against Top Gun and he has yet to disclose any of his policies so there is nothing to argue about. Instead I am letting you all know what I intend to do if you elect me as Taoiseach.
@ Igor: I didn't say that you are a conservative, I said you're the second-most conservative member of the eIrish government. Given that our government is fairly far to the left, that places you somewhere around the center.
The evidence for this is the political test that you took that placed you farther to the right than any eIrish politician other than Eamon. I also base this on the fact that you have said you like Rudy Giuliani (an economic conservative), Joe Lieberman (a foriegn policy conservative), and John McCain (an economic, foreign policy, and social conservative).
@ Kiemar: Thanks for again missing the point.
Joining the ESA is a good idea but it still didn't do anything beneficial for us (hopefully in the future but as of yet no). None of your policies did.
Please don't accuse me of not understanding things Kiemar, it only betrays your own failure to comprehend what I have written. Please read and reread before saying thins like that, for your own sake, it makes you look rather silly (and not the first time you have done this either).
@ Sean: So its RL politics we are talking about then?
Well then what you say is fair, it has little effect on eRep policy though.
Also pdiddy is more conservative than either of us on that basis....
"Eamon_de Valera is an outspoken proponent of fiscal responsibility, sensible government spending. If that is conservative then I am conservative and I would say that most people are."
You've hit the nail on the head. These are two common traits of conservatives. You cannot pass Eamon for a centerist and you can no longer project the IUP as a populist party. For someone who promotes the IUP as a party containing members from across traditional ideological lines, you have certainly elected to alienate half of your party.
Given that offically speaking a President really has no power, and everything is the choice of congress, how exactly will you make changes to improve things for Ireland?
Try and answer without piggy backing off of someone elses ideas, or by relating to something someone else said a while ago, I want to see some ORIGINAL ideas by Igor, some ways to improve this country for the better, ways to encorporate everyone who joins this game into our country, and more importantly, ensureing that everyone remains, and lives...
"Also pdiddy is more conservative than either of us on that basis...."
aye, guilty as stated.
I have gladly accepted to be Igor's running mate. I think we can bring about several changes to eIreland and honestly, if the people feel the same way about things as we do, the votes will show that.
We still have some problems in eIreland, I think we can fix these several different ways. I believe that Igor has the right ideas and again, people who feel the same way will vote for us. People, this is about ending the crippling bureaucracy in our nation. It is a time for personal responsibility and realizing that yes our government should ensure an equal playing field but that we can do so much without the government taking us by the hand and leading the way. We must realize that democracy is what makes this nation the great nation that it is, I believe with Igor as our leader, we will see an unprecedented era of transparency and a greater say by the people, wasn't it he that pushed for our recent referendum legislation? Vote Igor and Eamon_de Valera for this nation's leadership.
I just hit level 6, you have my vote.
Oh Boy! My two FAVOURITE people in the whole wide world on one ticket!
Thanks Theus, I knew I could count on your vote
Aw bless, Theus could hardly contain his excitement, nothing like Presidential sarcasism 🙂 Good article Igor. One thing I would suggest however is not making ending the bureaucracy the central theme of the campaign. You have other points which I think would generate more positive feedback. By the way I doubht there is anybody as conservative as me in eIreland 🙂
well you need to sort out hosiptals in kerry - cork
@ Severin: I have actually just talked to Eamon on the Four Pillars of our Campaign. This is one however and I was part of the reason I chose Eamon as he is the man to deal with the mess left by previous governments..... also what is the craic with all the conservatives coming out of the closet? 😃 I didn't think there were any except pdiddy...
The Four Pillars:
1) Decisive Action Within Government
2) Investment in our Future
3) Democracy
4) An End to Needless Bureaucracy and Red Tape
Manifesto due out tonight or tomorrow.
Igor my little friend why is there no other party supporting you?
you live by the sword, you die by the sword
Listen Igr I'm going to give you some constructive criticism. There is no point on focusing on this whole bullshit thing of we are too bureaucratic. Its not a good thing to base you're whole campaign around. Focus on something more important like our gold to IEP rate or war games.
Oh Theus, Kiemar and beloved Thomas, your party is not fielding a candidate... why all this foolishness? Just because none of you ever got anywhere with the IUP is no need to take it out on your e😜arty....
Anyway if you cared to read my other article you would see that reducing the endless bureaucracy of your government is but one of many facets of my campaign for a better eIreland. No more or no less important than any other.
Also manifesto will have to wait till tomorrow, nearly finished but I have a ridiculous exam tomorrow morning and won't be able to finish the writing it up tonight...
"Just because none of you ever got anywhere with the IUP"
Is that the best you can come up with? Lol
Theus did well did he not? He's certainly achieved more than you, and he didn't spout a continuous stream of shite like you in the process.
Kiemar is one the country's best politicians and a potential future president.
Igor maybe there is a reason you have never won an election, four attempts was it?
Igor you and I both know that this has absoultely nothing to do with the IUP as a party, its has to do with you as a candidate.
And as a matter of fact Igor I helped found the ISRP so really IUP is not my former party.
D well reasoned argument Thomas.
You past administration was not exactly inspiring... but Thomas, please do not try and reduce this to your usual gutter tactics.
In terms of my unsuccessful bids, perhaps the nation was not yet ready for me? Also I don't think I went up four times... Anyway I simply didn't have the multi account backing me that 5n4keyes had (the one that got your shower elected last time round I might add).
Or perhaps I am just making excuses and I am a useless politician... let's see how I do on Sunday. IUP vs 5 parties, can't wait.
Good night Thomas, also swearing betrays a limited vocabulary... as a TD better is expected of you. There are a large number of children playing this game so please try and have some dignity and watch your mouth.
@ Theus: 😃 thanks
Lol well you see Igor I'm one of these people that well tell it as it is. I'm not going to hide behind a dictionary like some...
I'll tell it like it is. This is all rather childish...this election is one of the most heated in recent history and for good reason. I feel that the people of eIreland need to see that rhetoric doesn't always bring about anything for the people.
This is about the people, all these recent new "changes" don't bring anything to the people. A leader of the Dail doesn't bring about anything for the people, an inactive regional council doesn't bring about anything for the people. We won't base our entire campaign on bureaucracy but we will show the people that we have a streamlined idea for the government. There are many people in this nation that aren't in the gilded group at the top, they don't give a toss about who the Economic Minister is if he doesn't do anything and simply uses his title for his own benefit, they care about results and that is what we are talking about from our end.
That's all well and good Eamon,but not all of us supported the ideas you criticise.
In fact,for the regional councils,there was quite a bit of concern but it was passed to "give it a go" since then not much has happened,but it's not like we spent days and days discussing it.
I also care about results.
At the end of the day,what you accomplish is what you are judged on.
I don't bother with fancy wording and over exaggerating things that need not be exaggerated.
I like to keep things simple stating what I plan to do, and how I plan to accomplish it.
Unlike,Igor who is happy enough in some cases to write up vague promises with no clues on how he plans to accomplish it.
How do you plan to stop "needless bureaucracy and red tape"?
What is this "needless spending" you are talking about?
Are you referring to building expensive hospitals in regions which will never be at war?
hmmmm my name keeps being used.... 😛
looks like theus supports you 🙂
I always love the mud slinging around election time. Its fun to watch.
how to you register on the eIreland forum?
What are your plans in improving the economy of eIreland?
Slagging the former leadership may get you the votes of people that agree with you on their decisions, but I really do not see any kind of coherent plan to stabilize the economy here, or even make it a viable option for a citizen to stay and work here.
@ Saukkis: Well I have yet to publish my manifesto (tonight it will be up) but I have a plan for the economy which is hinted at here. Try reading it again and my previous article and you will see that I do have a plan.
@ Sargent:
got to:
http://www.erepublik-ie.com
Register by clicking the button on the top left corner
Thanks Igor
I've been playing for a week now, The first I heard about the Irish forum was on this opic.
Also the first I heard about State jobs was here, when I don't need them so much
Is there anywhere all useful information like this is posted
Thanks again Igor, I can't vote yet, but when I can I'll definitely consider you
You should be able to vote by Sunday 😃
Only 1 exp away from level 6
Anyway great to hear that these articles at least help keep people informed.
igor hopefully you will get in and start making changes in this country