Failed Government Policy

Yesterday the Irish Government stated that it would not be paying the traditional Christmas Bonus to those persons including old age pensioners who are in receipt of Social Welfare payments. This at a time when the same Government will pay its members millions of Euro in Salary and expenses for a three week Christmas Holiday, at a time when this Government has committed tens of Billions of Euro to bail out corrupt bankers and property speculators and paid tens of millions of euro to top up the pensions of inept bankers and failed government appointees. This Government has failed in its most basic of functions, it has failed to put people at the centre of Government policy and has opted to put the interests of big business and corruption at the centre of its policy agenda.

This Christmas children will starve, children will be brutalised, children will be homeless because this failed Government bailed out the criminals and punished the innocent. This Government and its intellectual mouth-pieces may well fill their pockets with gold today but on the day of judgement that gold will weight them down under the burden of their crimes. This Government is not fit for purpose and if it was a private company it would have been closed down long ago, we can only hope and pray that the day soon comes when we can send this Government from office and replace it with a Government that is people centred and has a heart where there is now only stone.