The ‘jobs for boys’ attitude must go

The government’s finance policies are very strange, to say the least, to any sane mind.

Take for example their intentions to cut the health service budget and in the next breath vow to spend €124m on upgrading broadband.

Another misconceived idea is their new rates for houses when one considers that nearly 40% of householders have not paid the property tax and 27% of mortgage holders are in financial difficulties and unable to meet their mortgage payments. Yet the Government suggests that home owners pay rates on the size of their homes. Will 60% of home owners pay while 40% refuse to pay rates?

The EEC is proving itself to be extremely careless in matters of financial diplomacy when one considers Greece, Italy, Spain and Ireland spending so much euro that they failed miserably to balance their budgets in successive years of the so-called boom era. Shame on all political corruption and on those who perpetrate and align themselves to irregular pecuniary gains rather than to political correctness.

It is true to say that power corrupts, and such corruption befuddles the mind that there is a price to pay for abuse of power.

We all lived beyond our means and we so easily forgot that financial booms never last. It is unfortunate that property investments strangles our common sense, much to our chagrin.

The time has arrived for political correctness and so overhaul the jobs for the boys in political parties.

We have too many TDs and senators because the adage truthfully tells us that “too many cooks spoil the broth.”

Bill Anderson

Santry

Dublin 9