We need quality of life, not just jobs

REGARDING the latest EU summit, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said “EU leaders have acted in a decisive manner and the deal allows for a much improved environment within the eurozone, in which Ireland can focus on creating real opportunities for jobs and getting people back to work.”

His main focus seems to be on job creation, but is that the answer to our problems?

What most people want is a life, and not just a job, just ask anyone that is still in a job, but for whom life has become a constant struggle, a never ending juggling act in an effort to keep a roof over their family’s head and food on their table.

For most people, a job is a vital part of having a full and meaningful life, but not when the Government takes more and more of what you earn each month. We are then told that the solution to our problems is to work longer and harder and for more years, but that will just lead to the Government taking even more of our money from us.

This is, in effect, nothing more than slavery.

Jobs alone are not the answer. Give us involves more than spending it working. We have but a short time between the cradle and the grave. Do we really want to spend all that time in work, to pay for the mistakes of others?

Dave McInerney

Coolatuder

Ballinhassig

Co Cork