Business leaders pick a vulnerable target

IT is disappointing, but hardly surprising, that the lowest paid in our society are the first to be targeted by business leaders in this recession rather than those who have benefited massively from the Celtic Tiger years.

It wasn’t low-paid workers but shortsighted politicians and wealthy property and financial speculators who squandered the wealth that had resulted from an unprecedented increase in productivity by workers.

This is reminiscent of 1987 when our leaders demanded that ordinary people tighten their belts while they were loosening theirs to tuck in their Charvet shirts.