Aptness of famine figures at IFSC was questioned in 2006, and now...
‘Other peoples’ money, ‘other people’s’ problems seems to have been the overall attitude then.
If it is a ploy, certainly when bust happens, if it does, we may expect a sort of ‘social bomb’ to go off, entailing independence deceased bankers, quite possibly hanging by the heels off lamp posts along motorways out of Dublin and other regional centres of piscality.
However, with those not-so-well healers may hang numbers of ministers of the boom bust faith.
It would be a disaster for banking, and not so great either for public representatives.
But for a while, there would be a sort of satisfaction.
Why is being decent such a challenge to such as these? As long as they don’t send over some unfortunate, the ECB may content themselves with cross tuttings from the continent.
People see their relative misery. They see untouchable financiers.
They saw the culture of the vulture in the treatment of Clery’s people, their own people.
They see the ‘score sheet’ and realise the game is stacked against them and their children.
How many children by the end of 2016 will be homeless, many more than Christmas 2015.
They see, and many have to lie in, bed trollies in A&E corridors.
They see unrecoverable loss of destroyed pension funds for older people or those that lost their nest egg retirement funds in the other private mortgage house, or a son or daughter, gone now.
They see homelessness and food parcels, and yet some needed food — hot meal centres.
They see expensive cod-joke bank inquiries.
Some newspapers published comment in around 2006-07 about whether the famine figures were appropriate to the financial services centre. Best leave them alone.
Better be good. Some angry, unstoppable, ghostly fingers may yet grip the throats of some fiscal wolves and line the Liffey with their hides.
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