Facebook | Padd O'connell

Facebook Padd O'connell: "AS fred johnson from galway said'picking on the weak'mary Hanifin has the unmitigated gall to state on rte radio that new regulations will be required to tackle dole fraud.Of course ,i'd forgotten,only people on the dole commit fraud or any other financial crime.The chancers who brought the country to its knees are still walking free,cossetted,protected.They are not likely to be on the dole.Not one of them [this is a safe prediction]will ever stand in the dock of a courtroom.We know this.Yet social welfare payments will be cut,employment schemes chopped-the kind of communities they serve are,after all ,merely dole fodder.who cares?They will never provide political'donations;Any of them who grows up healthy 'enough'to join the dole queue will find themselves before the courts if they even think about doing a job on the side.Never have i heard a politician,a government minister,outline more lucidly in one remark the 'true'political philosophy of our present government.It is all about'SOCIAL CLASS"and maintaining difference;about those who are not [deemed]important enough on the social scale to protect and save from poverty and ill-health (a natural consequence).This is depraved and immoral political reasoning.