Each day we learn more about Government’s contempt for us

IT is hard to believe after so much comment and coverage that the Government is still hell bent on fixing our economy without touching the more privileged and protected among us.

The ‘tough’ decisions which we hear so much about from Brian Lenihan and Mary Hanafin, among others, are only tough on the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. If Brian Lenihan, Mary Hanafin, et al, understood the word ‘tough’ they would face up to the public service unions instead of reassuring them that the Croke Park deal, with its ringfencing of income and pensions for the better-off and the better protected, would be set aside in the national interest – or, more correctly, the national crisis.

If Mr Lenihan and the Government knew what being tough was they would not have brokered what history must surely judge to be one of the greatest acts of economic sabotage every visited by a government on its people – the Anglo bailout. The so-called social partners are no more than the strongest unions and the biggest businesses in the country, many of which operate as monopolies or quasi-monopolies.