The Minister for Education Mary Hanafin was on the Six One News (1st item) spewing out total bullshit in defence of the latest cowardly u turn by her fellow greedy incompetents.
Her performance shows that she is either a very stupid person or a cynical liar; I believe she’s a liar. Brian Dobson did a demolition job on her pathetic defence of the pay rise scandal.
She started off her lying by claiming that the deferral of the pay rise was a show of political leadership due to the downturn in the economy.
This is a lie, if there had been no strong public reaction to the pay rise the greedy politicians would have taken it. If our ethically compromised and greedy Taoiseach had insisted on taking the money no member of his party would have the balls to stand up to him, including the cowardly and subservient Hanafin.
She carried on her lying by asserting that the pay rise amounted to only about 2% over ten years.
Dobson quickly demolished this pathetic lie by putting it to her that she and her greedy, incompetent and cowardly colleagues had awarded themselves pays increases of 145% over ten years up to 2010.
Just after the lying minister said the figure was 2% Dobson asked her was it 2% or 145%, she replied that it was 12%, another lie.
She went on to insult the intelligence of every honest Irish citizen by claiming politicians were worth the increase because of their responsibilities in running the country and using taxpayers’ money well.
Irish politicians do not know the meaning of the word responsibility; we only have to look at our Third World health system where people are actually dying because of political cowardice and incompetence.
Again, in a desperate attempt to avoid Dobson’s searching questions she said;
“I think the general public accept that it is very important that the people who lead this country are paid good salaries so that they are not in any way susceptible to outside interference. That’s very important in any democracy.”
This is pure unadulterated bullshit.
Although this lying Minister seems to believe the fantasy tales of our ethically compromised Prime Minister, polls indicate that the majority of Irish citizens do not.
They have legitimate doubts about Ahern’s acceptance of vast amounts of cash from so called friends when he was one of the highest paid politicians in the country, so much for not being susceptible to outside interference.
Ahern also seems to revel in the putrid stench left by his corrupt hero Haughey; a politician who had no scruples whatsoever about robbing millions from taxpayers while in receipt of a massive state salary. Again, no worries about accepting enrichment through ‘outside interference’.
Meantime, over on Drivetime, we listened to the weasel words of another greedy and double talking politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern.
Once again we heard the lie that the pay rise was deferred because of a downturn in the economy when everybody knows the truth is that cowardly politicians ran for cover when they realised the extent of public anger.
Ahern got himself into all kinds of trouble when questioned by journalists. Apparently, this dishonest politician claimed that he and his greedy colleagues only got one pay increase in the last eleven years.
When the journalists pointed out that they had actually got 22 pay increases since 2000, amounting to a staggering total of 143% Ahern casually lied that everybody in society got the same increases.
When he was challenged on an interim pay rise of 7.5% awarded two years ago he asserted that that particular windfall wasn’t awarded by the independent pay review group while simultaneously, and stupidly, claiming that he had no memory of the award..
The journalists reminded him that it was awarded by the review group.
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My Word, Anthony, but you are angry today! and using bad language too!
Seriously, you have my entire agreement on the views expressed by yourself above. I saw the interview in question and thought it was a particularly inept and totally unconvincing performance by this normally plausible politician.
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Again, in a desperate attempt to avoid Dobson’s searching questions she said;
“I think the general public accept that it is very important that the people who lead this country are paid good salaries so that they are not in any way susceptible to outside interference. That’s very important in any democracy.” Unquote
Does she really think this is an acceptable explanation to pay politicians inflated salaries ?
Is it an admission that they are all now so corrupt that only by paying them enough can we expect them to act with integrity? If that is the case I think its time for a revolution !
Yes, I know Haymoon but sometimes I just lose it when I listen to those hypocritical lying politicians.
As for revolution, I remember in the early 1980s when political and business corruption started to seep out, that there was no way the Irish people would put up with such behaviour. I’m still waiting for the revolution.
re revolutions:
Sean O Casey wrote in one of his plays re the “Troubles” during the early part of the last century:
The gunmen are not dying for the people-the people are dying for the gunmen´!”
well, we are in a new century now and he might have said of the irish health system-if he were to write a new play from the grave:
“The rich mans is not taxed to sustain the poor-the poor are dying weekly to sustain the rich man.”
(And the Gombeen politicians of the Fianna Fail Party.”)