Pain being doled out unequally in society

Those at the weakest point, those who are most vulnerable, will be called on to take the greatest hit.

In commerce, the smallest guy is the one most likely to feel the brunt of ill winds, simply by dint of his place in the pecking order of economic power.

ET tu, Joan? She is not a typical chest thumper, but Joan Burton’s spirit has been captured. Her comment last week about school-leavers going on the dole as a “lifestyle choice” was unsettling. There are politicians who revel in that kind of rhetoric, but Burton isn’t one of them. Her comment illustrated, once more, the manner in which the country’s economic woes are being handled.