I was listening to a discussion of the privatizing of Aer Lingus last night. I was struck with a comment made by some ‘expert’ on the matter of privatization. The comment went something like this.
Some ministers were blocking the privatization efforts because there are no votes in it.
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and I was gob smacked. He had put is finger on why no one is happy with the government. The public is only now recovering from the Eircom fiasco when the government gave away the phone company to the banks, and other profiteers, screwing the citizens of Ireland who had invested in eircom, only to be ripped off by corrupt politicians, the same politicians that are engineering this rip-off of the Irish airline.
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But this points to another more serious problem, representative. This ‘expert’ knew that the general public, the voters of Ireland, do not approve of this privatization effort. They know full well that no good will come of it. But the politicans have so little regard  for the voters that put them into office that they will completely ignore their constituents, and operate only in the best interests of the profiteers and banks. It’s no wonder that this government has extended the length of the freedom of information act so far into the future, they can all be safely in the Bahamas when the facts come out.
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I will now predict that within 2 years of this privatization, there will be no Aer Lingus. And the Irish flying public and many of the airports in Ireland will no longer have any air services available.