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Bertie Ahern: It Wasn’t Me
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As Bertie Ahern does his screen-test for a future job on The Sunday Game or Late Late, he was quick to defend his handling of the economic downturn. Unemployment now at 5.1% and construction workers falling like flies - and little re-training to give them a hand up.
The Dublin Central TD, who quit office in April, joked that he would have dug the economy out of the downturn sooner if he had been in charge.
“People say that I caused it, don’t they. But that’s wrong. I would have dug us out of it. It takes you a while to do it.”
Typical Bertie-speak or hints of a critique of his successor’s performance? I know a few readers would take issue with the proposition that Bertie Ahern would be ideal to get us back on an economic even-keel anyway….
Bertie Ahern, and Bertie alone, catapulted Ireland into the recession that is now destroying the country.
He was aided and abetted in this Domesday scenario by his best buddies in the trade unions and by CORI’s Sean Healy - the inventor of the doctrine of Comparative Poverty (CP).
Healy avers that everyone should have cake — and welfare payments should be sufficient to cover the cost.
Nice one that.
The sandals & beards in the trade union “movement” actually sit on their fat collective arses, pontificating on TV.
Movement … such a daft word to describe the sloth of people like Begg; O’Connor et al…
The only movement are their beleaguered card-carrying foot soldiers carrying banners labelled “Strike on Here”.
The Supremos will be back at HQ with the cash box open for “Show Time”. And boy, do they know how to party with their members’ money.
Bertie Ahern believed that the meek would inherit the earth. And, being meek himself — and weak — he was ideally placed to lead the country into the manure.
Spending €400 a week on haircuts tells you a lot about this joker’s priorities.
He effectively silenced the Central Bank & Brian Cowen, ordering them to issue bloated statements on the economy. He forced Cowen into a spendthrift Budget, wasting millions on social programmes and civil servants salaries & index linked pensions.
He should not have been allowed to resign; he should have been impeached for gross negligence — followed by forfeiture of all his several index linked pensions; his office; his Mercedes-Benz and driver.
Ahern has the intellect of a small soap dish and the cunning of a fox.
Poor old Brian Cowen was a fool to capitulate to Ahern’s Iago-like drip feed. Possibly he didn’t want to jeopardise his chances of succession, but he has paid a high price for listening to Ahern’s false counsel …
And the Irish people will continue to rue the day they elected Fianna Fail into power.