Examiner editorial nails the rot in Irish politics and society

[blacbloc]

Aren't we all a little bit like those bankers?

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[He3]

I thought you were boycotting the Examiner. Have they done their time?

These are all huge issues but they will not be resolved unless we all find a new sense of honesty and obligation. Yesterday, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan told us we are fighting for our economic future. In reality, we are fighting for much more. We are fighting for a decent society where equity and sanity prevail. One where we can expect the protection and services a modern democracy should provide its citizens.

This afternoon we may all be outraged by the Anglo Irish report but that document will just relate the symptoms of the disease hanging over this country. This disease will not be cured by changing one tribe of politicians for another — that is the only choice we are offered. We must make other choices for ourselves.

We must put honesty and equity before everything.

[blacbloc]

You've got me bang to rights there Helium. It's an on off love affair - Examiner is really a much better newspaper than the Irish Times but it is woodenly patrician and pro FG at times. It will not STFU about the public sector and for that I kick it's ass and **** in its general direction, as John Cleese once so poignantly said.