Fwd: Letter to Editor

To: "independent.letters" <independent.letters@independent.ie>

Dear Editor,

I choked on my porridge this morning when I read on the front page of your paper that Brian Cowen doesn't expect the people of Ireland to "thank" him for Fianna Fail's efforts to save this country.

Brian Cowen has been a Government Minister since 1997 and was Minister for Finance from 2004 untill last year and in all that time he did nothing to save us from the collapse of our economy's boom. For him to want praise for correcting his own mistake takes some neck.

As a public servant and taxpayer I have had to swallow his 1% levy, his 6% pension levy and his government's attacks on those with medical cards and the vulnerable in society while he protects the banks.

However like my porridge I can't swallow his idea that he should be thanked for Fianna Fail's "Herculean efforts to save this country."

I have to ask 'Who will save the country from Brian Cowen?'

Yours sincerely

Cllr Keith Martin

33 Pairc na Coille

Westport

Co. Mayo

086 0691182

098 25747

098 24852