http://www.munster-express.ie/opinion/to-be-honest-with-you/the-cost-of-berties-new-office-cannot-be-justified/ Munster Express Online, Waterford's leading weekly newspaper Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:20:58 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.munster-express.ie/opinion/to-be-honest-with-you/the-cost-of-berties-new-office-cannot-be-justified/comment-page-1/#comment-1551 Brendan Walsh Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:34:52 +0000 http://www.munster-express.ie/opinion/to-be-honest/the-cost-of-berties-new-office-cannot-be-justified/#comment-1551 There is no one we can blame only ourselves for the current corruption we are looking at here, any one who has bought an over priced house or got a quotation for renovations to their existing home knows that the cost of this office like so much else within the political circles here is over valued like the tribunals , because we the electorate , the tax payer will pay for it and , while we will moan while sitting on bar stools or on our lunch breaks we will do nothing else. Like our economy was over dependent on the construction industry the last few years and we all fell for the media spin of 'what a great economy we had' it was all an illusion. You have to applaud Bertie how he has played us all. And now we are left with Mr Cowen , who has allready seen the downturn coming when he canceled the Galway race tent. The developers who made so much the last decade and refurbished these offices deserve their rewards , as none of us were brave enough to question what was going on. There is no one we can blame only ourselves for the current corruption we are looking at here, any one who has bought an over priced house or got a quotation for renovations to their existing home knows that the cost of this office like so much else within the political circles here is over valued like the tribunals , because we the electorate , the tax payer will pay for it and , while we will moan while sitting on bar stools or on our lunch breaks we will do nothing else.
Like our economy was over dependent on the construction industry the last few years and we all fell for the media spin of ‘what a great economy we had’ it was all an illusion.
You have to applaud Bertie how he has played us all. And now we are left with Mr Cowen , who has allready seen the downturn coming when he canceled the Galway race tent.
The developers who made so much the last decade and refurbished these offices deserve their rewards , as none of us were brave enough to question what was going on.

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