Stephen Collins writing in Saturday's Irish Times argues that so much of what passes for Opposition in the Dáil simply amounts to rejection of necessary taxation measures coupled with demands for unlimited extra spending on socially desirable objectives.
"It is also no accident that the variety of parties and individuals from far left to far right who, at the height of the crisis, advocated policies such as defaulting on debt and allowing banks collapse are to the forefront in opposing everything designed to get the economy back on an even keel..
"The people who would have suffered most if there had been a financial collapse are those who depend on the State for welfare payments pensions or salaries..."
There must be something wrong when the far right and the far left can join in a common cause. The Taoiseach refers to it as an alliance of the Tea Party and Trotskyist.
The Saturday article makes for interesting reading.
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