the private public divide?

every petty right wing commentator, from 'questions and answers' on RTEtv, to the columnists of our daily papers, to the various members of all the mainstream parties who pop up to voice their opinions on the above and other media formats, all sing from the same unholy hymn sheet at the moment- 'the problem is overpay in the public sector'- 'we have to save money... time to slash and burn the bloated public pay bill'. so nurses and bus drivers are 'overpaid' bloated vampires sucking the lifeblood of society? it seems to me that this is as ridiculous as it sounds... the real division isnt between the private sector worker and the public sector employee, but between the top and bottom of both sectors, both the CEO's of private firms and the top civil servants in this country are the true 'parasites' carried by the working class. to distract us from this truth all manner of hysterical screeching from mainstream political life is raised at every available opportunity.
according to the latest OECD figures ireland ranks as the 7th most unequal society in the 'developed' world. the top 10% of irish society earning more than 9 times the earnings of the bottom 10%.(remember this is a comparison of salaries, so what if we add in profits?) and this situation was made worse over the last two decades, so it seems that even economic growth, although it makes claims the working class are wealthier, sees workers across the western world produce far more but recieve less of a share of the total product of society. this trend is repeated over and over right across the world. neo-liberalism has been gnawing away at the share going to the workers, wages etc, this increased rate of exploitation an attempt to restore a profit rate which has been in decline, apart from the occasional burst of growth, since the end of the post-war boom in the mid 70s.
the fianna fail govt have already raided our national pensions reserve fund of 18 billion and handed half of it over to the banks for purposes of 'liquidity'. the pensions reserve fund is to provide for social welfare and pensions from 2025 onwards but has been gambled on the stock market over the past few years, one such 'investment' was in the firm- lehman brothers which infamously collapsed last year. such stock market dealings lost the fund 600million in the last 12 months.
their bail out of their friends in anglo irish bank will cost us billions, some estimates state we are now in debt by 20,000 euro per household. the goverment will cover the bad debts of the banks to the tune of 90% (while waterford glass and other workers have NO gaurantee of pensions).
yes the economy needs credit to run...but why continue to bail out these banks without accountablity? why not nationalise the whole banking sector? why cant we open their books to public scrutiny?
instead of attacking the average public sector worker why not fire the beaureacrats and top civil servants and save us all those pointless pieces of paper they're so fond of? why not tax the top CEO's of the private sector? those who made 41billion in the closing years of the celtic tiger?
why?..well because fianna fail, fianna gael and all the other parties clamouring towards coalition with one of these gangs accept the logic of the market, they accept we need to be 'competitive'.
should the health service be 'competitive'? should you manage your household affairs 'competitively'? 'oh i'm sorry little jenny but if we treat your cancer well we're no longer competitive'...'sorry children but if i feed you then we're no longer a trim stream lined competive outfit'....they all accept this race to the bottom...this inhuman fetishised logic...
so dont let them fool you into thinking the public sector is the problem! these over bloated corpses clinging to our backs have no right to label anyone as a parasite...