Monday, 6 April 2009
Irish Economy Fail
Wonderful, entertaining and diverting gnashing of teeth over the awful economic fate that has fallen from the sky to crush plucky little Ireland. The clothes are ripped off and the rest of the continent gapes to see where the fat of wealth has gathered. So too the scars of neglect. The silence from the general populace as to their part in the validation of a retarded laissez-faire process is ear shattering. Oblivious to the advice and warnings of all their own experts, they played it stupid and calculatedly chose to take as much as they could while they could. Now they sit awake at night, wondering how to get straight back to where they left off. For now they can't laugh at the vicious circus of their elected representatives, it's too serious all of a sudden. Once the pain has become chronic and a few bankers have been hung they will swing back to the start of their loop once more. The government will fall. The new upper middle class will take a few holidays. The cancer patients and special needs pupils will expect a reduction in living standards. Everyone will feel the pain, those at the bottom most of all, and still the streets shall be quiet.
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Do you think we'll see a Fianna Fail wipeout in the next election? Surely only the hardest of the hard core will vote for them. That would be fun, at least.
This budget (and the next one) is aimed at securing their existence until the next general. I don't think that will happen because the Economy will keep bombing and they won't be able to pass the blame. The only problem of course is that any disaffected FF voters usually flip over to the other wingnut party, FG, and FG have been manoeuvring themselves even further to the right (i.e. privatize everything, send-em-all-back, make the poor work for welfare, etc.) It's fairly grim.
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