Government will pay for favouring ‘big business’

Letters page correspondent Maeve Halpin nails the neoliberal capitalist myth that open free-marketeering does something for ordinary people.

How could it? There is one grand stash of ‘gold-coins’ in the global bucket. If a tiny cabal at the top-table takes most of it, then there won’t be enough at the margins. No mystery there — simple add and subtract. Distorted wealth-inequalities equal poverty.

The social derelection practised by many so-called ‘democratic’ governments facilitates the insatiability of corporations, banks and stocks-and-shares merchandisers. It is immoral.

The political kowtowing to ‘greed-merchants’, thinly camouflaged as entrepreneurial corporate adventurers, is a shameful act of betrayal in the falsified name of democratic enterprise.

Since the Eurozone conglomerate set about “dismantling the great European post-war social-democratic achievement and restructuring society along market lines”, there has been sparse hope for egalitarian re-alignment. With the political ‘masters’ on the pig’s back that is the EU governance bonanza, with salaries and expenses to beat the band, what hope for authentic fairness and empathy?

“The water protesters should not be demonised as anarchists, but viewed as ordinary people attempting to rebalance a system that has become unsustainably skewed in favour of the rich,” wrote Ms Halpin.

Bring on the election.

Jim Cosgrove

Chapel Street

Lismore

Co.Waterford