Suck it up and shut up is the message to the taxpayer

I WONDER if you feel as sick as I do? And as scared?

Suck it up and shut up is the message to the taxpayer

And as helpless? I would like to add “and as angry?” but I have just learned that I must not give any more space to that unpatriotic emotion.

I listened to Brian Lenihan on Morning Ireland, and he told me I must stop feeling angry, because “anger is not a policy”. I – and every other taxpayer and social welfare recipient in this misfortunate country – must “stop blaming other people and take responsibility for ourselves as a nation”.

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