I could be wrong as my neighbours dog often eats my post but didn’t the government say they would send a copy of this to everyone. I sure haven’t gotten it yet but would like a paper copy before I make up my mind

To those who don’t understand the treaty there is a responsibility on you to read up on it and make a full and informed decision either way… There’s a decent bit of coverage on it now … Thejournal have a link above bringing you to an explainer… There’s stabilitytreaty.ie (which had a very quick video explaining it) i’m sure the referendum commission will have info on their website and they are posting out info as well in the future …

I respect people’s choice to vote yes or no but I hate when people say “oh the gov never explained it” when there are so many avenues to find out about what u are voting on … Some people expect to understand it by osmosis without actively reading up about it themselves …

its a treat to consider bringing into Irish law stricter fiscal regulations governing how we run the country – with rules being implemented by Europe?? close enough?

next survey…… do you like living in a country where 32% of people admit to being so blissfully unaware of the details of a fiscal treaty which has been the main news story of the year to date??

All people need to understand is when some economic shock, like having our political leaders sell us out to EU authorities by insisting we pay the losses of private bank bankruptcies, or even just during a severe downturn in the business cycle, we will be obliged by straightjacket rules to devastate our economy even faster and deeper.

Create more unemployment, reduce incomes even faster & present more firesale asset buying opportunities to the leeches of the bloated financialised economy which does little of ‘value’ now for the real economy of citizens.

The Euro common currency system is a failure, except for the top few percent & financial elites who designed it.

Some shared fiscal rules (but not the ones offered) would be appropriate within a structure that also ensures prosperity for all, not a race to the bottom & the destruction wrought on Greece, now coming to Spain, & ultimately Ireland in due course.

The Fiscal Compact is nothing more than a doubling down on precisely the same policies & Euro construction that caused the mess & are making matters worse, not better, as we have all witnessed over the last 4 years.

And whilst the crisis gets worse, such fiscal rules are not the priority.

We should be voting on a comprehensive new treaty of fundamental reform to the Euro system. Alongside that, serious reform to regulation – actually having meaningful regulation – of the financial sector should already have been enacted, but isn’t even being considered.

We have only one option to avoid a program of incremental debt slavery. Vote NO, to tell the politicians ‘captured’ (or effectively bribed) by the financial elites, that this isn’t acceptable.

Really, it’s time to wake up now & stop this before it’s too late.

(There are real alternatives, certainly no more ‘difficult’ in the short term, & with infinitely better long term outcomes for the majority of us.)

Michael Taft of Unite Trade Union puts it rather well in this article: http://notesonthefront.typepad.com/politicaleconomy/2012/04/fiscal-treaty-files-the-fiscal-treaty-is-unsafe-uncertain-and-unnecessary.html

I understand that we ought not to be signing up to a treaty which is not an EU treaty and which sets an incredibily dangerous precedent for the future of the EU and the EMU – and particularly not a treaty which has been cobbled together in a panic and whose sole aim is the calm the meerkats. So Yes, I understand the treaty.

Knowing what the fiscal treaty is one thing, knowing its ramifications is something else entirely. W all know we are voting to accept / reject the amendment to the constitution to allow the treat to come into affect, we can all read the excellent journal translation of the treaty. But what affect will it really have? That’s the real question I want answered before the polling day.

And now the Dutch government has fallen. Its looking like the left are on the rise all across Europe.

You want to see Sarkozy in Ireland again? vote no lol

Dana was right!!!!