Readers Blog: Ordinary people not responsible for hardships

The article ‘The centre is finding it pretty hard to hold’ by Daniel McConnell on Saturday’s Irish

I am one of the people he is talking about. I would like to inform him that I left home with nothing. I educated myself and worked all my life, paid my PRSI. We saved to buy a house, we paid 17% interest on all the money we borrowed, we paid tax at 45%, and we managed to save a little money for the rainy day.

Then the Government came along and raided the money that we had saved to give ourselves a pension.