"More than enough done, only one thing left to do."
No, you may not have a national consensus government to bide time while you cover up more of the connections between your buddies and the mismanagement of the banking and building bubbles.
No, you may not have a national consensus government to bide time while you cover up more of the connections between your buddies and the mismanagement of the banking and building bubbles.No, you may not continue to fudge the problems, while you lie to us, throw good money after bad, and build an Ireland where the prospects for our children looks far worse than it did for us.
No. You are not fooling us with saying it was all "international factors". It wasn't international factors that got the overpaid financial regulator to engage in light touch regulation of your banking buddies, gave tax breaks to an overheating construction sector filled with more of your buddies, and led thousands of people into a trap by talking up the economy while they were burdening themselves with crippling debt.
No, you may not lecture to us on sharing the pain. You could have let Anglo go, and the shareholders and bondholders would have to take the hit. After all, they say they deserve the profits because they took the risk. Why should we bail them out? Because they are your friends or lend to your friends?
No, we don't want to wait for you to bluster until you feel like an election. We want you OUT. You have betrayed the trust put in you by the public.
You need to go, and we need to sack you, and we need to let the next government know that we have no tolerance for this anymore.
It is way past time that the people of this country said "You are fired. Go, get out and don't come back. "
I see David Quinn taking a different angle on this in the Indo. Public Funding of political parties, is a from of 'blackmail' that is being used to compel parties to look at enforcing undemocratic gender quotas, and corporate donations are fine, as long as they are disclosed...
ReplyDeleteNo mention there that we the public do not choose to send our taxes to these parties, cannot withold their pay when they do the opposite of election promises, or don't bother turning up for work, and we see them more often popping out of cupboards instead.