What recession? Just look at how politicians and officials rip you off

THE essence of leadership is good example. The Government is suggesting that people should hold the line and forget about wage increases.

It does not take an economist to realise that the economy is going sour. Anyone old enough to remember the 1980s can recall when our economy was one of the basket cases of Europe.

We simply cannot go on living at the rate at which we are going. RTÉ had a programme recently on our highest earners and one person actually made more than €1 billion last year.