"Let's be fair about this, we all partied" - does it justify economic conscription?

[He3]

"Let's be fair about this - we all partied".

Brian Lenihan, Prime Time, 24.11.10

Dermot Ahern said something similar in June to Mary Minihan of the IT -

"Let’s be frank about it, the country had a party. We hadn’t money for 800 years and for 15-20 years the country had a bit of a party and now we have to pay for it".

What are we to make of these statements, coming as they do with their claims of fairness and frankness?

They are offered to us by government ministers in justification of their decision to conscript us into paying huge debts run up by private banks.

Where is the connection?

[clonycavanman]

...that the Government were no smarter than any randomly selected group of persons?

[Vote_No_on_Everything]

I didn't party, I worked.

[Raketemensch]

When he says 'we', he means career politicians pulling in a quarter mill a year, buying up apartment blocks and then getting the poor to pay their gambling bills when they can't sell the last few. They partied, what he says is quite correct.

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[wexfordman]

When he says 'we', he means career politicians pulling in a quarter mill a year, buying up apartment blocks and then getting the poor to pay their gambling bills when they can't sell the last few. They partied, what he says is quite correct.

i certanly didnt party!! I remember a few years back an electrician working on a housing estate near north cork, who boasted that he had bought 3 of the houses himself, traight off the plans!! At the same time he was borrowing to pay for his investment properties I was putting spare cash into my mortgage!! I've been on 4foreign holidays in the last 14 years, 1 being my honeymoon while wathcibng others scoot off buying property and holiday apartments abroad!1

Now I have to pay for these fnckwits cos god love em, its about how much you can afford, not about how stupid and greedy youve been!! Now my pension contributions are going to be plundered, and my future retirement put at stake because of greedy ******************************************s who had/nt a clue!!

Its not just the politicians and bankers, there are a lot of average joes just as responsible!

[Nonsence & lies]

I owe the bank €100k. And i'll pay that back.
The ************************************ that owes RBS 40 billion can pay that back himself. I wonder did sean dunne return ulster banks €800m before he head to the states

[Nipper]

Ideology?

Trickle-down economics

[anfieldabff]

When he says 'we', he means career politicians pulling in a quarter mill a year, buying up apartment blocks and then getting the poor to pay their gambling bills when they can't sell the last few. They partied, what he says is quite correct.

Lenihan is at it again, he is feeling the heat as are all government politicians, so they have come with a new spin. They still think that they can get the gobsh---tes to love them again.
They are a busted flush, bet Lenny goes back to holding court in the Wren's nest, it is about all he is fit for. Just like his father a bluffer and a liar.

[Raketemensch]

Just like his father a bluffer and a liar.

And riddled with cancer There's an upside to everything