In The World’s Fastest Indian (2005) Burt Munro (played by Anthony Hopkins) surpasses his moneyed professional rivals and streamlines an Indian ‘Scout’ motorcycle by adopting a K.I.S.S. attitude. Hopkins attitude was the result of old-man stubbornness combined with fiscal reality.
In Ireland today (2009) Fianna Fail are still in government, to continue to metaphor we might thus call them old men, but they have yet to grasp the fiscal reality. In the Celtic Tiger era there was much spending, and suffice to say some bad decisions were made. I don’t know much about politics but I have just come across a document on the Fine Gael website, a document so impressive it could, by itself, convince one to vote for Fine Gael in the next election. A Gerry McGuire type document. It contains the most comprehensive publically available list of Irish QUANGOs to-date, and that fact alone makes it worth saving locally as a PDF. But its more then a reference text, it offers solutions, a roadmap for change.
Granted the details could be fleshed out, and any roadmap is merely a political statement of intentions but it is more then I have seen on the Fianna Fail website.
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