Committing treason against our grandchildren

Kicking the can down the road sounds like an amusing solution to Ireland’s problems, but the reality is no joke.

The Fianna Fáil/Green government committed acts of economic stupidity, equivalent to treason, by absolving the gambling debts of banks, builders, developers and other scoundrels, and making Irish taxpayers liable.

What the current Fine Gael/Labour Government is doing is even worse. Instead of canceling the crazy bank guarantees and then dealing courageously with the resulting economic crisis, they adopted the cowardly option of just blaming the previous government and then continuing along the same crazy unsustainable road.