Watching my country go down the tubes

[lesbiassparrow]

Holy feck, Ireland is totally screwed isn't it?

Watched the Paxman interview with Brian Lenihan. Favourite moment (and a question no one in Ireland would ever dare to raise) was the bit where he said 'wouldn't your assertion [that Ireland will regain its financial health] be rather more plausible were this crisis not entirely a result of your own incompetence."

Sad fact: Cowen, Lenihan, Harney and the lot of them will retire on immense pensions and my sister will have her meagre wages cut further because everyone knows that the public sector is overpaid. Except for the politicians. You can't pay enough for the clowns we have! (Did you know out esteemed leader is paid more than the President of the US?)

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If I read one more person suggesting that by wanting some of the people responsible for this to be punished, answers and a new government that people are betraying the state. My sister didn't wallow in Euros. She had none of the fancy holidays. She bought a house with my mother because there was no renter protection at all in Ireland and rents were sky high. And now she has to listen the powers that be talk about how she's overpaid and that the 14% of her meagre income they've already cut isn't enough - as they drive around in their expensive cars and earn huge sums of money.

I honestly can't believe FF is still in with a chance in Donegal. My old county, too...