I think the saddest thing for the people of Ireland - and perhaps the rest of us is that it seems no party is articulating an alternative to Austerity, or even a resistance to the logic of Austerity.

Gunder Frank's thesis seems ever more important to me as we more and more become a world where wealth is concentrated in multinational corporations and the small class of people that are attached to them. (Some in charge, some servants.)

In the past, there were countries with a middle class not directly at the mercy of the multinationals, but it looks like very few countries will maintain that status, we're heading for 3rd world inequality levels everywhere...