Alice in Wonderland

[Enoch_Root]

One of our brightest and our best, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn EU commissioner addressing a collection of personages in Galway.

“In times of crisis, those of us in public life have a public duty to optimism”, she said.

irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0319/breaking61.html

To fulfill my duty (reading the pin qualifies us as partakers in public life), I would like to announce that the recession is over, house prices are rising, the celtic tiger is roaring and that everybody can stop being so miserable.

I think that she comes from the same mould as Bertie.

[yoganmahew]

I too would like to fall through the rabbit hole. I will now start taking my state pension. I realise it is a little early at 41 (or am I 42?), but it gives me more time to optimistically spend it for the good of the economy, a German car, a Spanish holiday home and a hide-away in Brussels that I can claim tax-free on the commission.

[What_Goes_Up]

Two days ago, the European Commission told the Government that its projections for correcting the economy were too optimistic and that cuts might have to be more severe than planned.
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“In times of crisis, those of us in public life have a public duty to optimism”, she said.

I think her Greek is showing!

[jcsmith]

Can someone remind me again how much she’s raking in on the public dime?