Everyone we do …
by planetparker
The article by .Colum Kenny entitled “Green Boss on Planet All of His Own” in The Sunday Independent of October 18th in which he highlights yet one more example of official larceny mentions Joe Fennell who is confined to a motorised wheelchair and who has been reduced to living off food parcels distributed by the Capuchin Friars in Dublin. Colum Kenny compares the welfare benefit that Joe is expected to live on per week with the figure of Î200 he expects to pay a medical consultant for half an hour of the latter’s expertise. The benefit granted by the Department of Social and Family Affairs in its beneficent generosity is only Î15 higher.
Colum Kenny fails to mention that as a result of Minister Hanafin’s viciousness and desire to appear tough, the amount that Joe (and many others) gets will probably be reduced at the next budget by Î10 or more.
Let’s end this hypocritical shite once and for all; the cuts recommended by McCarthy and spoken of with such warmth by the types
No room for Robin at the cabinet table
of ministers Lenihan, Hanafin and Harney have nothing to do with restoring the public finances. They are simply a means of insuring that in a time of economic hardship there is enough loot to pass around government ministers, their extended families as well as senior civil servants and their cronies. Government policies are an inversion of the spirit of Robin Hood: they’re all about stealing from the poor to give to the rich.
