Did any of us ever think we would land ourselves in this situation ten years ago? The real tragedy is that they have blown the greatest opportunity we will ever have, perhaps the only opportunity we will ever have, to be an equal and sustainably prosperous nation. Stupidity and short sightedness won the day as we bowed to the economic policies of, firstly, an inveterate gambler and, secondly, a fat charmless oaf. Now we are subject to the idiocy of another classic breed, a career politican riding on the coattails of his family name. Lenihan sits wide eyed and terrified before the cameras, the cogs in his brain slowly turning and struggling for answers to the consistent and terrible economic nightmare that unfolds before him. He is like a cross between Gollum and Tweedle Dee - fat, greedy, stupid, wide eyed and desperate. A useless fool with no credentials to run even a chip shop.
I can't move up here without sight of the homeless...they are at every corner and from every background...young and old, Irish and non-national, sober and fucked...just people. Their hope has now disappeared. But why should we care, right? We'll survive somehow. We'll keep going...I'm digressing but it is so easy to do so. The length and breadth of this sickening mulch of ineptitude is so broad it is impossible to focus on anything for any sustained length of time. Your mind flits from catastrophe to catastophe, each time thinking "How could they have done this? How could ANYONE let this happen?!"
I intended to write this about An Bord Snip Nua but where do I begin...Colm McCarthy is a calculator. A fool who knows nothing of the real world. Never get an aging academic to do the work of a real man...he has been so far removed from the real world for so long he has lost all concept of how it works. Our international reputation is built to a large degree on the artistic and cultural heritage we have created and yet that is where this oaf cuts first. Our economic reputation lies in tatters, now is not the time to destroy our cultural reputation. But this incompetent idiot will never understand. He has no concept of true worth, to him Ireland is a series of figures and columns. Cut, cut, cut. Is it too much to paraphrase Stalin? Possibly. But one man in poverty is a tragedy. A million is just a statistic...the books must balance in Ireland Inc.
I'm not really considering too deeply what I write. I meant this to be a jolly, fun little post when I started but it is impossible to concentrate, there is just too much... Suffice to say I'm angry now, angry and afraid. Get angry.
