We mere citizens get what we deserve
What is wrong with this country? Are we the public so conditioned, programmed and malleable that we accept this and other deals like it without protest or reaction?
Yes, we are. Over the past 20 years two strata of society have evolved in Ireland — the elite and the citizens.
The elite is comprised of the political parties and the higher echelons of banking, industry, semi-state and state bodies. And the citizens — that’s us — who pay the piper but who don’t call the tune.
And, by God, the piper will have to be paid sooner rather than later. The elite are only too well aware just how malleable we are. Indeed they depend on us being so — how else can one account for their arrogance?
The elite by and large have shown their solidarity with us citizens by voluntarily “accepting” a 10% salary adjustment which I consider smoke-and- mirrors since they are coming off such an obscenely high base.
But they are doing their patriotic duty? Humbug.
The truth is we citizens really don’t care as we have seemingly lost the desire to demand change, honesty and, above all, accountability. So we get what we deserve.
Denis Moloney
Kilnagurteen
Macroom
Co Cork
