Today Mr Brian Lenihan, The Minister for Finance will deliver the Government's budget for 2010. In that budget little remains to be discovered other than the dot of the I or the cross of the T. It is for certain that the most vulnerable and hard working in society will be punished to pay for the crimes of the wealthy bankers and speculators. Families who through no fault of their own face into this Christmas with no income only the crumbs from the table of the Golden Circle are to be brutalised and penalised for the failures of this Government. This Government failed to have professional financial safe guards in place to protect us from corrupt bankers and property speculators, indeed can we expect any thing different when the man charged with running the country is himself a property speculator, but a property speculator who invested his money in creating jobs and employment in Cambridge England rather than Dublin Ireland. How can we trust a Government that has more in common with the wrong doers than it has with the good citizens of this State.
The latest whisper is that Brian Lenihan is being groomed for the position of Taoiseach, however this Observer would say thats a Chair Lenihan will never fill. Lenihan may well think that he has been moulded on the potters wheel of Fianna Fail traditionalism, however the reality is that skeletons often fall out of the cupboard when you least expect them and no amount of nepitism can save the recipient. Today the Government could have taken the monthly Social Welfare Payment (child benifit) off the families of millionaires, they could have taken child benifit off the 6,000 Tax Exiles who rob this country blind each year, they could have forced the bankers and speculators to pay for their own crimes, rather this Government has taken the easy option they have decided to punish the most vulnerable.
A widow neighbour of mine has 4 children, she has not yet come to terms with the loss of her husband who died only a few weeks back, she is dependent on the widows pension which is approx 260 Euro per week (this has not even been paid yet) the only other payment she gets is the Child Benifit for her 4 children as they are still school going age, the proposed cuts in Social welfare will leave this woman with at least 80 Euro per month less, does Lenihan or his Golden Circle friends care about this woman and her family, No. A man I once worked for in Dublin owns several hotels and other businesses, his family gets child benifit each and every month for their five children, this man is a multi-millionaire yet they keep their Social welfare payment as others queue up at soup kitchens close to their fancy hotels.
Brian Lenihan and indeed this Government had the opportunity to do the right thing, instead they have decided as indeed they have decided in the two previous budgets like the school yard bully to attack the weak and the vulnerable. This Government is not only mealy mouthed but they are corrupt and unfit for office, if Lenihan thinks this budget will get him the Taoiseach's chair he will soon be woke up from that dream. This government built its inept policies on the flood planes of Biffonian Economics, steal from the poor to give to the rich, the day of Judgement will see them pay a heavy price for their sins.
