that to me is the achilles heel to go for.

it's not about blame per se, though there's plenty of that, it's the total impunity and relative anonymity they enjoy.

i understand the 'set a thief to get a thief' logic, but with no price to pay personally for their fake 'oops!', and the convenience of needing revolving door appointments, because no lay person understands the devious logorrhea and arcane numericals these scams are couched in, but these people have betrayed millions by their convenient incompetence at their jobs, jobs which destroy quality of life for the many, enriching only a few.

who are they, why aren't their faces and names on front pages, why aren't they accountable, hiding behind their disposable stooge politicians?

they are worse than spies selling state secrets, no better than common criminals, yet when did one have to grovel even a little bit?

the present ones should be quaking, yet i have the impression they are continuing their selfish, corrupt games, while marionette pols go down like flies.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

Quite how the Minister for Finance and Taoiseach, not to mention the cabinet were absent from the substantive negotiations of quite the most import deal in the history of the state is beyond belief - and doesn't even seem to have entered public consciousness or political controversy yet.

Seems a good time to use this issue to give the pot a vigorous stir, though possibly in a separate LTE. My suggestion is that three factors entered into this:

1. Cowan and other FF politicians were terrified of this issue and wanted to keep their fingerprints off of it to the extent possible.

2. They have too little understanding of economics to deal effectively with problems of international finance.

3. This is justified by the neo-liberal/neo-classical economics myth that economics is a separate realm from politics and has to be allowed to function according to its own laws -- the better for the economy to eat the society and pass the "profits" to the wealthy. "Filthy lucre" indeed!