Irish Budget 2009 Analysis: Lenihan’s “call to patriotic action”
Oct 15th, 2008 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
Irish Budget 2009 Analysis: Minister for Finance Brain Lenihan said in his speech Tuesday on the Budget, that "it's a call to patriotic action." Apart from evoking Samuel Johnson's most famous quotation: "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel," while incompetence is not incompatible with patriotism, it's rich indeed to be lectured about such noble values, by people who used short-term political interest to the detriment of the economy and many thousands of people.