http://www.independent.ie/national-news/elections/ive-got-your-back-bertie-tells-brian-1750625.html
I am not trying to discredit everything that was achieved during the boom years but surely by now Bertie must realise that most of it was built on sand. Jobs that were created are now being lost. Social welfare looks like it will have be cut. Health service is still a mess despite tons of money being thrown at it. There are still massive problems in Education. There was always poverty and its climbing again. The national debt is climbing again. Tax revenues have collapsed. So we had a few good years. Big deal. When the history books look back, will they comment on the lasting legacy created by the boom years or the fact that the Country had a big party for ten years and suffered for the next twenty.
I am not trying to discredit everything that was achieved during the boom years but surely by now Bertie must realise that most of it was built on sand. Jobs that were created are now being lost. Social welfare looks like it will have be cut. Health service is still a mess despite tons of money being thrown at it. There are still massive problems in Education. There was always poverty and its climbing again. The national debt is climbing again. Tax revenues have collapsed. So we had a few good years. Big deal. When the history books look back, will they comment on the lasting legacy created by the boom years or the fact that the Country had a big party for ten years and suffered for the next twenty.