Watching news reports/debates etc over the last year or 18 months, I am starting to worry about the health of the country as a whole.
For over a year we have been told me need to suffer a lot of pain to recover, and that major cuts have to be made. Of course very few cuts have been made and amazingly, 18 months into the worst recession in this countrys history, we are STILL borrowing €500mill per week.
We continually heard how the people of Ireland would all pull together and help save the country. We were told we would all take the pain and get on with it, in typical Irish fashion. For the greater good.
But again, this is the total opposite of what we all see happening. Every individual wants people to take cuts, as long as its not them. No-one is willing to suffer any pain at all. We all want the borrowing to stop but we don't want to suffer the cuts to make it happen. We want it all.
Does anyone else see a way out of this mess, cos I don't. I can see a bankrupt country in the not too distant future.
For over a year we have been told me need to suffer a lot of pain to recover, and that major cuts have to be made. Of course very few cuts have been made and amazingly, 18 months into the worst recession in this countrys history, we are STILL borrowing €500mill per week.
We continually heard how the people of Ireland would all pull together and help save the country. We were told we would all take the pain and get on with it, in typical Irish fashion. For the greater good.
But again, this is the total opposite of what we all see happening. Every individual wants people to take cuts, as long as its not them. No-one is willing to suffer any pain at all. We all want the borrowing to stop but we don't want to suffer the cuts to make it happen. We want it all.
Does anyone else see a way out of this mess, cos I don't. I can see a bankrupt country in the not too distant future.