‘We’ are not to blame
To which ‘we’ is he referring?
Is it the ‘we’ that brought this country to its knees through dodgy banking, property speculation, and the borrowing of huge sums from banks, only to use it to buy shares in the very same institutions?
Or is it the ‘we’ who were forced to buy family homes at hugely inflated prices, the ‘we’ now paying mortgages they can barely afford.
Or is it the ‘we’ crippled by incessant tax hikes and the freezing of increments, who can barely heat and run their homes, due to ever-increasing fuel prices, social welfare cuts, and household and property taxes?
The assumption, by much of the media and many politicians, appears to be that the Irish people caused this crisis and that we were living well beyond our means.
Now that we all have been good girls and boys and are ‘post bailout’, I can assure Mr Noonan that I did not go mad, nor do I intend to go mad, but I certainly am ‘fuming’.
Rory O’Callaghan
Kilmainham
Dublin 8
