I dont see what the football comparison is to do with anything. Firstly you dont even know if I agree with Bohs views on it and secondly it no way ties into the quote you used from me there. The job of Bohs is to Bohs, not to society, whereas the job of the government is to society, but they only look at the economy all the time, and when I say economy, I mean balance sheet view of economy.
Well number one I would not have Fianna Fail anywhere near the government to be honest. I would not have them anywhere near it for a very very long time.
So its a bit like the person who is asked for directions, and he says i would not start from here.
I think both Joan Burton and Richard Bruton would do a better job that is been done at the moment. That is not to say they are perfect. A few things, I think the government have got wrong in recent times. Even when they have got decisions right, they have got them politically wrong. They would have achieved more lasting cuts in the public service if they had of led from the front and taken big cuts in TD wages and high public servant wages from the start.
Secondly, ideologically Lenihan wanted wages cut across the board, but ran with the view that he wanted a reduction in the public service costs of 1.3m, however when that was proven that it could be achieved without pay cuts for the lower and medium paid, he was not interested as it did not fit into his ideologyo that the way out of this is to cut wages across the board both private and public. The public were led to believe that somehow cutting wages in the public service would keep the wages and jobs safe in the private sector. In fact the opposite will happen, as less spending will happen from public servants with less money. Even those that do have money will now save more and not spend as much as they have bee threatend by Lenihan and others that more pay cuts will happen next year if they do not agree to reform, the same reform that was on the table back in the talks.
Basically we are being led by ideology over humanity. The talk of Leniham as somehow a genius or the intellect of the Dail is rubbish. He was floundering at the start and needed basic economic lessons by Mc Williams and others. If he was that hard working and that much of a genius he would have been preparing for this before the **** hit the fan.
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The third line from the quoted article is this:
It's hard to take somebody seriously who writes a line like that while being aware of Councillor Michael Healy-Rae.Lineage once gave you a leg up in Irish politics, but no more.
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