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Posted on January 14, 2006 | Category: General

If you are interested in the ideas of the Holistic Budget and Parity of Investment and want to contribute, leave a comment and I’ll set up an account for you, with instructions.

My name is Philip Casey. I’m not a politician and have no political ambitions. This site is a means to clarify my thoughts on the future of Irish society. The ideas expressed here may be utopian. If so I invite you to comment in as much detail as you can as to why they are utopian. My principle worry about Irish society is its sustainability. The amount of waste, both financial and material, is staggering.

One of my aims is to propagate some phrases I’ve coined over the years, to see if they stand up to scrutiny – eg, The Holistic Budget, and Parity of Investment.

So what is the holistic budget, for example? Simplistically put, it is a budget which addresses all of the implications of a problem, and not just its symptoms. There’s no point in me paying a lot of money for medicine to cure a bellyache, if I don’t invest money in proper food.

Or to put it another way, why is the cost of road accident death and injury never included in the cost of private versus pubic transport?

You get the drift, I’m sure.

I’m going to try to avoid blaming politicians or anyone else, and simply concentrate on the issues as I see them. I encourage others to do the same.

Of course, like you I wish I had more time to think about these same issues.

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