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It's Bertie Ahern's fault

Posted Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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Blame

Of course there were several factors which contributed to the current situation Ireland is in.

However, a new report out yesterday laid the blame mainly at the door of Bertie Ahern - with some blame attached to Charlie McCreevy and Brian Cowen.

It seems that Bertie was ultimately responsible for letting the economy rip - against the advice of his civil servants in the Department of Finance and his advisors.

No Thanks

Year after year they would send him the budget and he would heap loads of other goodies onto it.

It seems that they had been warning him about the property bubble all the way back to 1999.

However, he ignored them.

He knew best.

It seems that he lumped an extra €6bn onto the various budgets - the sum that this Government will now have to cut.

It's two thirds of the €10bn gap between taxes and Government spending last year.

Suicide

Another commentator David McWilliams was warning about it too.

However, Bertie said that if he were him he would go into a dark room to commit suicide.

But it ended up an assisted suicide that he provided for Ireland.

Pariah

Now David McWilliams is vindicated and Bertie is now a pariah who caused the greatest damage ever to the Irish economy.

Unfortunately he left Ireland to pick up the tab - and Ireland's children and Ireland's children's children.

Bertie and his builder and banking chums like Sean Fitzpatrick of Anglo Irish are still strolling the streets of Dublin.

In America a lot of them would be behind bars by now.

As the extent of the problems emerge maybe it will come to that here too.