Our incompetent elite is costing us all dearly

The revelations this week about the nature of many of the allowances that public sector workers are entitled to has created a sense of emotions ranging from anger to amusement across the country, unless of course you happen to be one of the lucky ones in receipt of some of these perks.

What has created even more anger and amusement is the fact that a Government, which was elected with a strong mandate to clear up an incredible mess and restore order to the public finances, is not prepared to do anything about those allowances.

I spoke to a group of private sector businesspeople in Donegal the following day — a group who have clearly found it incredibly tough to survive in the current environment and who are being destroyed by commercial rates and other state-induced costs. They were absolutely livid about what is going on in the country and the abject failure of Government to do the right thing. I can only agree with their sentiments. It is truly disheartening, particularly as middle-income workers in the main will get screwed again in the upcoming budget, just as they have done over the past four years, simply because some of the chicken-livered elements within the Government are not prepared to take on the all-powerful public sector unions. Sounds just like the last government, doesn’t it?