Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week

Rushed for time this week, so can’t indulge in outrage at the rubbish being talked about how great Eoin MacNeill and the other free staters were in their use of violence in the same articles effectively denouncing Pearse as some sort of psychopath. Guess which two are responsible for that. Instead, just the following to show how some people still can’t escape from attacking public sector workers for something that has nothing to do with them.

The resentment of those – snug and smug – in their well-paid, pensionable, expenses- laden jobs, for the person who dares to “get above themself” and strike out on their own, is obvious as small businesses and the self-employed continue to plummet down the poverty line while the increments (pay rises) and allowances (see Irish Pictorial Weekly) of the Croke Park deal are defended no matter what the cost to justice and equity. The well-educated, entrepreneurial “working poor” may not come from a “particularly disadvantaged group” but the discrimination with which they are treated in this country ensures that their children will

I’ve really no insight into what sort of thought process can produce a paragraph like this, possibly because it is total nonsense.