Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

I knew a guy at school who was very bright put prone to making inappropriate use of language, or so he thought. He once expressed his opinion that “old people should be abolished”. This policy is now being taken up by the department of health.

Let’s face it, old people are a burden. Their days are numbered and they’re in the way. I have learned that the minister for health and senior figures in her department are frustrated because the decision to means-test medical cards for the over 70s targets completrely the wrong people. They don’t mind wealthy ould fuckers who can probably pay for their funerals and who maybe have contributed handsomely over the years to government coffers. Oh no, it’s the other fuckers they’re really after, who are poor and no doubt have always been poor, who have been dependant on hand-outs all their lives. For a government anxious to curtail wasteful expenditure to give them free medical care is frankly like shooting yourself in the foot! They’ll never be out of doctors’ surgeries and hospitals, and what’s more the fuc… these people will live longer, all the time soaking up goverment expediture on GP visits and drugs. The kindest and most humane thing to do with them is to withdraw medical cards to them NOW and let them expire on their own.

The decision to means-test medical cards had the approval of minister Briane oge, but the devil was in the details. I honestly don’t think he is evil enough (he’s certainly not bright enough) to have pulled such a stunt on his own. In fact I don’t even think Fatso Harney knew the details. It was enough for her to exclaim “Will no one rid me of these costly dotards?” If anything, it shows just how little our public representatives – the punks i mean people we elect for better or worse – are in charge. The details were decided by mandarins in the Department of Health and posted on the department’s website on Wednesday evening. This was definitely sneaky. The government had bought into the idea since Brian oge stood up on his hind legs. They would have looked stupid if they tried to back-peddle. They were effectively left holding the baby, or holding the shitty end of the stick – and that’s where they are now God love them – upto their oxters in the brown stuff.