Living in a Banana Republic
Some of the insanity going on in this country at the moment:
- The Financial Regulator is getting plush new offices to the tune in €8m paid for out of government funds. By the same government who said that there was not enough money to spend €10m on a cervical cancer vaccine! (Thanks to Grandad for pointing that one out.)
- Civil Servants are told not to use Wikipedia to help them decide on asylum claims!
- TD’s constituency office workers are exempt from the pensions levy. Given most of them are family members makes each TD’s pay cut seem a little hollow. I’d personally be interested to know how much the Lenihan and O’Rourke families are stealing from us.
- Our transport minister compares the countries bankers to Oliver Cromwell, this is the same minister who thought electronic voting was a good thing! While on the subject of comparisons I would dare to say that our Taoiseach is like Worzel Gummidge, he changes heads to suit a particular situation and leaves a big mess for everyone else to clean up.
- A government sponsered study points out the obvious declaring that ‘Ireland suffers from high levels of lawful corruption‘
There is lots more but I couldn’t be arsed looking for them. I’m depressed enough already.
Yup. That’s about right.