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A cabal in our midst

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So our cosy cabal have done it again.

Our esteemed government have found that they can’t stop their pensions ‘for legal reasons’.

Here we have a shower of incompetents who for their own ends have screwed this country left right and centre, until it is on the verge of bankruptcy, and who still insist on paying themselves pensions while still in office and drawing a salary.

My old friend Bertie, who has enough questions hanging over his past to fuel an entire series of “Who wants to be a millionaire” is happily sitting there in the Dáil, doing fuck all and drawing a pension on top of his salary.  And how much is that pension?  A mere €111,235.

I would be happy to be drawing a pension of €111,235.  In fact, I would be happy to be drawing a pension based on a salary of €111,235.  But no.  I am a mere pleb and must make do with what I have.

Isn’t it amazing how laws can be changed overnight if the government so wishes?  Isn’t also amazing how laws suddenly appear out of the woodwork when there is a threat to the cabal’s income?  Isn’t is amazing how those laws can’t be changed overnight?

So Lenihan is reducing those pensions by 25%. 

BIG FUCKING DEAL.

Why not 100%, or even 50%?

Because the Attorney General says the ‘may be legal issues’.

Bollox.

Having had the greatest arse kicking in the history of the state, they still carry on feathering their own nests.

-oOo-

Incidentally, I found the following in Wikipedia –

A cabal is a number of people united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in a church, state, or other community, often by intrigue. Cabals are sometimes secret societies composed of a few designing persons, and at other times are manifestations of emergent behaviour in society or governance on the part of a community of persons who have well established public affiliation or kinship. The term can also be used to refer to the designs of such persons or to the practical consequences of their emergent behaviour, and also holds a general meaning of intrigue and conspiracy.

I think it sums up that gang of bastards in the government very nicely?

 

Comments

A cabal in our midst — 10 Comments

  2. It does explain why aliens have never visited Earth….there is no intelligent life here.

  3. Thank you for the word “cabal”. When I saw the word in your writing I was not familiar with the meaning but alas I am finding out that I can depend on Grandad to enlighten. That being said, what a f_ _ _’n perfect word to describe the
    government(s) here in the states. Some people here are ready of course to throw our current President under the bus, but you know what its all of “them”.
    democrats and republicans, they’re all in bed with one another and to hell with the people who put them in office. I really can’t wait for the revolution that will get rid of the whole lot and then we can start over???

  4. DAMN! I typed a long reply in here, and now it’s gone….. 🙁

    Thrifty – Too long to read, and life is short!

    Jim C – Apart from you and me?

    John O – It’s a nice word all right. It just came to mind when I was pondering the subject, so I looked it up to confirm what I thought it meant. I think it is time to resurrect it as an everyday word? 😉

  5. I am with you 100%, we should all try to use the word as a rallying point; get the word out there, make people find our what it means, get people to think (there’s a novel concept). I can envision placards with just the word and a phrase: “Cabal- is it ‘your’ government?”

  6. Well our mob have John Howard’s six billion dollar savings assigned to the toilet bowl and permisson to borrow a further 200million (God knows where frmo) but at least they’re on a wage freeze. They get paid more towards their pensions than any other worker in Australia. Just so you don’t feel too alone up there!
    .-= >> Baino´s latest brainfart .. Someday =-.

  8. So Gramps, do you start a counter-cabal that trumphs they’er Cabal….Think, drugs, sex and rock an roll, a revolution that nobody shows up for…eh ?
    Are we stoned enough to give a rats ass yet ? We wonder and are never dissappointed by what dos’nt happen, eh ?

    So, go out on the Manor and take a piss, bring a bush back to life, its all we can do to insure nature takes her course.

    RWG

  9. Baino – Our lot couldn’t afford ten million to protect the current generation of girls from cervical cancer, but suddenly they can find four billion to pump into a bank which had been giving bad loans to their pals the builders!

    RWG – Where you bin? Out prospecting? I do think sex drugs and rock and roll should be the answer. As Herself always says – you can sort anything out with a pint, an old time waltz and a good ride.

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