Failing to take the ‘hard decisions’

I KEEP hearing government ministers and TDs claim that the catastrophic collapse in their party’s vote was a result of them having to take “hard decisions” because of the economic crisis.

But I think those who claim the public punished them only because they had to take hard decisions are wrong. Yes, the voters may have punished the government parties when they experienced the wages reducing, social benefit slashing, cervical cancer immunisation denying results of these decisions, but I believe the voters punished the government parties even more for the hard decisions they didn’t take.

The Government didn’t take the hard decision to use every possible means, including emergency legislation to allow the government to seize the property of those who owe us millions, to ensure that debts owed to the people via the nationalised banks, or via banks that have received public funding, are paid either in cash or in kind right now, not in years to come.