Our Leaders Can’t Count — Surprise
Gob-smacking the rule again this week. Turns out the geniuses monitoring the country’s dire finances and various begging bowls to powers afar have been having some problems with their maths. Somebody did a double check and found out wizards from two different gov bureaus had simultaneously entered a 3.6 billion euro loss to the national ledgers when reporting latest to the chiefs of IMF, ECB, and other bodies trying to make sense of Ireland.
It is noted that a government in panic about 3.6 billion euros it thinks it doesn’t have, but does, then skives every taxpayer in a land of 4 million or so for 900 euros more in taxes, or reduced pensions, or benefits, oh who cares. It’s just Ireland.
But some writers to the Irish Times today 3 November had this to say:
Sir — I anxiously await the appointment of a Minister of State to the newly formed Lost and Found Section of the Department of Finace, Helen Noonan.
Sir — Coming as it does on the day after Halloween, is the Government debt revelation that it got wrong by 3.6 billion euros a trick or a treat? Chris Goggins.
Sir — To have lost one billion might be forgiven as unfortunate, to have lost well over two starts to look like more than carelessness, Andrew Rous.
Even the ballots on the last election were indecipherable. Came somebody please explain the Unhingedness?
