Comments on: ‘While Blindness is a terrible disability…’ http://www.mamanpoulet.com/while-blindness-is-a-terrible-disability/ Clucking away crookedly through media, politics and life. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:53:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel Sullivan http://www.mamanpoulet.com/while-blindness-is-a-terrible-disability/comment-page-1/#comment-133524 Daniel Sullivan Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:24:38 +0000 http://www.mamanpoulet.com/?p=2624#comment-133524 What I don't quite get with this is that I had thought that Brian Cowen had a good feel for the area. He had made something of a quantum leap in funding in his first budget, and compared to previous ministers stuck with it. Others had said to me that he was quite good with respect to the provision of disability services while minister for health. Again this is compared to previous ministers but he seemed to make it a personal priority at least, where did that commitment go? Is this a sign that he had no real influence over the framing of the budget at all? What I don’t quite get with this is that I had thought that Brian Cowen had a good feel for the area. He had made something of a quantum leap in funding in his first budget, and compared to previous ministers stuck with it. Others had said to me that he was quite good with respect to the provision of disability services while minister for health. Again this is compared to previous ministers but he seemed to make it a personal priority at least, where did that commitment go?

Is this a sign that he had no real influence over the framing of the budget at all?

]]> By: SeanR http://www.mamanpoulet.com/while-blindness-is-a-terrible-disability/comment-page-1/#comment-133316 SeanR Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:10:10 +0000 http://www.mamanpoulet.com/?p=2624#comment-133316 It's like a slo-motion car crash... 'more seriously' Minister? Are you for real? I mean, seriously, what sort of f***ed up thinking let the Minister think this can be encapsulated by 'all pulling together' to do our part for the economy/ recession / recovery. (She's like Barbara Bush after Katrina who displayed how utterly removed the Bushies were when she thought people of New Orleans were doing fine cos they were living in shelters and not out in the cold). These cuts cannot be seen as 'all pulling together' etc., they are POLITICAL CHOICES (as the other Lenihan put it on Vincent Browne the other night, claiming the property sector was too fragile to cut!), so let's just make another political choice: vote 'em all out! I'm so appalled. It’s like a slo-motion car crash… ‘more seriously’ Minister? Are you for real? I mean, seriously, what sort of f***ed up thinking let the Minister think this can be encapsulated by ‘all pulling together’ to do our part for the economy/ recession / recovery. (She’s like Barbara Bush after Katrina who displayed how utterly removed the Bushies were when she thought people of New Orleans were doing fine cos they were living in shelters and not out in the cold).

These cuts cannot be seen as ‘all pulling together’ etc., they are POLITICAL CHOICES (as the other Lenihan put it on Vincent Browne the other night, claiming the property sector was too fragile to cut!), so let’s just make another political choice: vote ‘em all out! I’m so appalled.

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