Government disconnect

It is hard to fathom the utter disconnect between the Government and, in particular, its Labour wing with the economic reality we are mired in.

This week, Joan Burton had a risible Marie Antoinette moment.

Asking the decimated private sector to again cough up more, this time by way of PRSI, while blithely ignoring the fact that it is the public sector, and in particular her own department of Social Protection, who lose most days to sick leave and most millions to the national coffers. She expects people who struggle to put bread on the table to go on funding cake for the cosseted public sector.