Why I’m not answering Noonan’s call to spend

Minister for Finance wants me to start spending in order to boost the economy.

THE I would like to respond to him through your hallowed pages. I am not spending, Michael Noonan, because I don’t believe politicians any more, and do not believe we have politicians capable of saving this economy.

I do not believe Ireland’s bailout will work (neither did I think like many other ordinary Joes, that the twin gambles of government bank guarantee/Nama had any chance of succeeding). I am not spending because as a nation we are sinking week on week in a quagmire of indebtedness.