Stephen Collins - Budget Needs to Hit Everybody Equally Hard

[onlyasking]

Following on from this week's ratcheting up of the increasingly hysterical hate-campaign against every teacher, nurse, fireman and dole-office employee in the state, and at a time when senior bank employees and well-paid columnists can sleep easily, we find this little nugget from none other than Stephen Collins in today's Irish Times.

"The country was bracing itself for one of the toughest budgets in its history and the only imperative was that everybody should be hit equally hard, according to their means"

As Derek Zoolander would say "is this some kind of joke?"

[Ecoguy]

For the last year has being trying to out compete Noel Whelan as chief spin doctor for FF at the IT. The fact that he believes recently unemployed people, people on low incomes in both the public and private sector should feel the same level of pain as the fat cats in both public and private sectors(who are primarily responsible for the mess we're in) says alot about his own debased values. I wonder does he see himself as another Eoghan Harris ie. Slithering into the Seanad with a little help from the Irish mafia

[onlyasking]

For the last year has being trying to out compete Noel Whelan as chief spin doctor for FF at the IT. The fact that he believes recently unemployed people, people on low incomes in both the public and private sector should feel the same level of pain as the fat cats in both public and private sectors(who are primarily responsible for the mess we're in) says alot about his own debased values. I wonder does he see himself as another Eoghan Harris ie. Slithering into the Seanad with a little help from the Irish mafia

Fair point Ecoguy, though I'd see him as more in the spirit of the PD's, cuddling up to PD founder-member Madame Kennedy. The PD's were more than a party, they were an infection. The main symptom was the glorification of inequality and the ever-greater enrichment of our elite. McCreevy was a bit like a one-man Militant, running PD policies from within FF, with the willing acquiescence of FF to be fair. We all know where that got us.

Unfortunately, while the initial carrier of the infection has died, the disease has become endemic in this god-awful state.

To read Collins utter garbage about the "only imperative was that everybody should be hit equally hard, according to their means" is nauseating. Not surprising though. The Irish media is owned by and run for the benefit of our business elite. That's why there's the frenzied hate-campaign underway to obscure that elite's raid on the incomes of the rest of us over the next few decades.

[Cogadh]

This is quite nauseating to read.

But you have understand that to people like Collins some people are more equal than others.

[toxic avenger]

Typical PD. But then this is the man who was advocating a coup against the sovereignty of the people to get Lisbon through last year.