There seems to be a certain muted outrage from the people about the twin scandals of politicians ripping us off, despite their world-beating salaries, and those on the opposite end of the scale who are basically having a laugh at our expense by abusing the social welfare system.
The fingers in each case are being pointed, respectively, at John O'Donoghue, and the Harte family in Co. Clare: each of them being shameless 'free riders' on the taxpayer and each of them being totally untroubled by the apparatus of the Irish State in their jollies.
It is easy to blame Deputy O'Donoghue and the Happy Hartes for their panhandling at our expense, and of course both parties would be seeing the inside of a prison cell in any other part of the world. But the real culprits are the 'officials' in government, who see themselves as being on a god-given mission to milk the taxpayer for every penny they can get, so that it can be doled out the to the bone idle in accordance with their cod socialist/Irish Times worldview. And, of course, the ever useless Cowen/Coughlan duopoly stands back and lets them get on with it.
It's a funny old world.
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