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The recent financial budget in Ireland brought lots of resentment. It hit the weakest members of the population, mainly the young and the old.
Someone said somewhere that you judge a nation by how it looks after it's weakest. If this is true, than it's a sad day for Ireland.
Bridget Daley of Ballyphehane in the suburbs Cork is the mother of three teenagers. She likes writing poems and rhymes. It's her way of letting off steam. She sent us this week's poem.
The Irish Budget
Brian Lenihan delivered sweet little punches
Taking away our children's school lunches
Jobseekers allowance going up 7.50
With no jobs out there we'll have to be thrifty
Our children's allowance is taken away
Our 18 year olds study hard every day
Savings and pensions once taught to be wise
In 2009 they'll bring tears to your eyes
All that hard saving made bit by bit
But government really, don't give a s###
About elderly folk that spent most of their lives
Working for nothing to give kids a life
Back where we started it's so sad to say
Here's what we have at the end of our days
While people like dear Mr Brian and co.
Smile, watching the hospital waiting lists grow
Petrol and mortgages taxes and vat
Soon we'll be all going around with the hat!
Again all our children, to find work will roam
Away from this country we like to call home!
© Michael Roche, Jr.
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