Tasted Like a Sausage Sandwich
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Sunday November 23, 2008 19:32
by Hilary
Political Quiz:
You were the Fianna Fáil Minister for Finance during the last few years. There is a massive economic crash landing happening because of your policies, which focused economic activity on selling houses to each other rather than building up things like education, culture, home grown industry etc. What do you do now?
1.Make the poor pay- strip funding from pensioners, students, schoolkids and the under-priviliged.
2.Blame the international situation.
3.Blame the people who voted against Lisbon.
4. Put your hands up, admit your mistakes, and invest in basic services which will make the recession a bit more bearable for everyone.
(hint- this is Fianna Fáil remember...)
Anyway, at least he's not Enda Kenny.
Recently, the incredible hash that the government are making of everything they touch has led some people to suggest that all the opposition have to do to take power is shut the fuck up.
Cowen and Gormley and Harney will lose the election because they they are attacking their own base- middle class parents who don't want to pay university fees, the old who like having free medical care, teachers and the parents of schoolkids who like the idea of a slowly improving educational set-up, and of course, those who want to see things like the cervical cancer virus rolled out and the health system improved for those who can and cannot pay.
But his weekend, Enda Kenny in a speech to his party gave every public sector in the country a good reason to hope he never becomes taoiseach, when he said the national pay agreement should not be honoured.
Way to go, Enda, annoy ordinary workers and piss off the unions.
Meanwhile here's a video on Brian Cowen which might raise a laugh...