Happy holidays

Its Christmas week once more, and may I take this opportunity to wish you all a very
merry holiday season, and I hope you all have a job to return to in January.

Not the most cheery of greetings, but one that will ring a bell with many, and
those many most definitely wont be hearing sleigh bells this year.

But we must make the most of it, and so as you sit on Christmas morning, burning
the packaging from the kids presents as you can’t afford to run the heating, raise a
glass of Aldi’s mulled wine to our intrepid TD’s as they begin their, so they think,
well deserved 40 day break, safe in the knowledge that they have another four years
on the gravy train before we get another chance to be rid of them. Although with our
track record we will simply vote for the same old names and give them another four
years to cock things up further.

And lets not end the cheer there, while you sit down to your Bernhard Mathew’s
turkey breast roast, raise a frozen sprout in prayer that with the coming of 2009
you may find yourself with a decent wage, or at least around €9 an hour and think of
how much work our poor TD’s have to do to earn around €200 - €250 per hour. This of
course takes into account them actually turning up at the Dáil for all of the 96
days it happens be open, and work there for a full eight hour day.

I am of course taking into account all the tax free expenses that our beloved
leaders get to claim on top of their wages, with one of the highest, clocking in at
a massive €89,705 total expenses and allowances is Mr eloquence himself, Jackie
‘nobody can understand a feckin word I say’ Healy-Rae. Perhaps he should consider
putting some of those expenses towards speech therapy, maybe then he would be less
of an embarrassment to the whole country, although a change of hat would probably be
required as well.

Another who has now recently hit the big numbers with €54,705 is Bertie ‘now that
I’m not Taoiseach I have to buy my own brown envelopes’ Ahern, which he has knocked
up in a measly six months.

It doesn’t take me to point out that in the current state the country is in,
figures of this calibre are not just crazy but completely immoral, perhaps it does
need said though that even if the country were not in the present condition figures
like that would continue to be immoral, particularly for the gaggle of incompetents
we laughingly call our elected leaders.

It is of course Christmas and I had said last week I would try to find something
positive to look on, well so far 68 less people have been killed on our roads this
year than last year, though this is probably because nobody can afford to drink and
drive any more.