[Thomas J Stamp]

cant say I disagree with much of that tbh.

One day i must post about some of the things that really get my goat up, but I'm not in the mood today. In short this country is plagued by both NIMBY-ism and also INBY-ism.

Our rail network cannot cope purely because of this. We have more hospitals than we need, we have an airport in Shannon that isnt needed really, and because we have far more TD's than we need we'll never get out of the failures of the past that we all suffer with today. Why do we have an advance factory unit in almost every town in Ireland? Why is the NSS a waste of time and money? Why, why why?

We are a nation of dopes, thickos, greedy short-sighted morons and we're all fairly happy to wallow in our own filth as long as the money is good.

Does it matter that we're paying for car parks, extra on the Luas , paying over the odds on more things than we have ever paid before? Not at the moment it dont. But one day you will feel the hair snapping on the camels back. It may be a small thing. Perhaps you will turn up at Salins train station and you will not have that €2. You have time to to go the ATM. You dont have funds to take out the tenner and there's not enough petrol in your car to drive to Dublin. You go home and realise you're broke and the DD for the mortgage is going out tomorrow. You wont be the only one, believe me.

Happy Christmas.