A Deepening Crisis and Lenihan Can Only Fuss About Parking Spaces ; Commentary

Daily Mail › November 21, 2008

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MR Lenihan is an unskilled Finance Minister, we know that; but he is a decent and an educated man, so watching him yesterday was just painful. Nobody likes to see a man fail in public.

This country is suffering the worst economic and financial disaster in the history of the State. Yet yesterday we saw what our Minister has been doing during his first six months in office - sorting car parking spaces and musing about how much tax to put on coffee sold for consumption.

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A Deepening Crisis and Lenihan Can Only Fuss About Parking Spaces ; Commentary

The man is turning into Jimmy Carter. Carter was president during the American economic disasters of the late 1970s. He was supposed to be leading his country out of doub...

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