Sir, - Watching Prime Time on Wednesday night, I was amazed at the negative tones coming from the participants, particularly the citizens who were selected to comment on how the Budget affected them. It was very similar on Morning Ireland next day. Have we created such high expectations in our new economy that when people are given significant real increases in take-home pay, this is greeted almost with derision?
I'm beginning to think people were happier in the 1980s, when we expected, and got, nothing. - Yours, etc.,
Brian McMahon, Clontarf, Dublin 3.