Doctors in the
South are paid €177,000 per annum while an unemployed person receives less than
€200 weekly, €100 if under 25 years of age per week. The Rent Allowance works out at a
maximum of €60 per week. The annual income differential is 16:1 vis-a-vis doctors.
This obscene prejudice is reflective of the medical and Fine Gael mindset. A tiny,
disagreeable set of apparatchiks and technocrats who are also political and
government advisors is setting the agenda in the South.
Medical
privilege is vastly to the detriment of productive workers in insisting on
these mean and petty doles.
This social obscenity
reflects a deep moral sickness and political and psychological malaise.
A comparison
I have read
widely over this last forty years and had a first class classical education from
priests who, like St John Bosco and the teaching orders of the Catholic Church, dedicated their lives to the education of
workers’ children and I can only find one precedent – Bolshevik Russia.
In November 1917,
Russia industrial output stood at 30% of its 1913 level.
In 1919, Russian
exports stood at 1% of 1913 levels.
A plan was
devised by the Bolshrviks. They staged a coup against the elected
representatives of 75% of their own people.
A crisis of professionals' emigration followed.
Lenin’s answer to the emergency was
to give privileges to technical and educated salary earners. He awarded
engineers who were not members of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) 16
times the salary of a competent, skilled worker in industry.
The ideology of
death, destruction and the violent suppression of rationally sound belief is the cost of promoting a medical clique which does not endorse even the most elementary level of
basic human decency or legal probity.
As long as this fiscal madness continues, Brendan Howlin’s claims to be the Minister for Expenditure
Reduction and Fiscal Stability are entirely misleading.
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