We're being told to brace ourselves for a barrage of cuts in the months ahead as Mr Brown tries to damage the books of his damaged economy.
No doubt those who did nothing to create the financial meltdown will be expected to carry the can for its repair - just as in the South of Ireland, civil servants are making do with paycuts per week of up to 150 euro.
But the Brits won't contemplate cutbacks in some areas. Take, for example, the 160 nuclear missiles they have pointing at Russia (we presume they're pointing there though more than a few frustrated generals would prefer to point them at Afghanistan).
The people who preach the gospel of non-violence to the meek are refusing to scrap the 160-warhead arsenal or the submarines which carry them. In fact, Brown is embarking on a plan, even in these straitened times, to replace the submarine fleet. So Russia and the US will reduce their arsenal of mutually destructive nuclear weapons but the Brits say they have no intention of doing any such thing. No doubt even the most isolated Afghan goatherd can see the hypocrisy in the war on terror which is pulverising the cinder brick homes of Helmand Province.
Monday, July 13, 2009
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Any word on whether the Dublin politicans will have to sell off that fleet of 3 luxury executive jets yet?
In the US the American government forced the big car manufacturers to sell off their jet fleets. They had to learn how to fly commercial like everyone else. There were no excuses tolerated like "our time is so much more valuable than everyone else's" or it's "cost and time-efficient" or I need a "private loo" at 35,000 feet.
You could save tens of millions every year and that might translate into a lot of saved jobs, if they really cared about employment and the well-being of families.
Ireland did its best to build its economy over the decades by attracting foreign manufacturers, and it was very successful at that. But the people at the top of government, the banks, and all the politicans got very fat and lasy in the process. Now the lean times have returned. And the fat politicans believe everyone should sacrifice, pay the price and suffer, but not them.
When the government should have been saving its tremendous wealth, it squandered its wealth. No need to worry about tomorrow. The government ministers and politicans had to build their luxury holiday homes and take their holidays in exotic destinations, each trying to outdo the other.
While civil servants constantly like to remind everyone that it is their number one priority to protect the public purse all we can do in hindsight is laugh at what turned out to be a big fat lie.
The civil servants and the Irish government betrayed the public trust.
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