Sir, - Your Irish Times/ MRBI opinion poll on the popularity of the government both baffles and disturbs me.Among my own acquaintances are two distinct groups of people. The first consists of a very small number who are playing the Celtic Tiger game, and work in those specific industries. Issues such as the environment, healthcare and public transport are of no great significance to this group. Their needs are short-term, as their lives revolve around long working days, the trendier pubs, eating on the run, and getting enough sleep to do it all again the next day.As they rarely spend time in their (usually) grossly overpriced rented accommodation, some may not even have noticed how sub-standard it is and childcare is not an issue - yet! These people really couldn't care less who is in government and none that I know of have ever bothered to vote.The other group consists of people, some of them highly educated, who are still struggling to make ends meet on salaries that are not far above the minimum wage. Their skills and talents are not required by the Celtic Tiger, and this group can no longer afford to frequent pubs or restaurants. Some have been reduced to passing time on FAS schemes in place of finding a real job. They have always voted in the past but now wonder if there is any point to it.Mr McCreevy attacks the EU in his usual belligerent fashion and Ms Harney seems to be unaware that only a very few earn what she seems to regard as the "average" wage. And she now trawls the world for workers to fill the gap in the economic boom. Does she not know that the bubble of her American dream may be about to burst?We may just have enough native ex-IT cubs willing to serve pints and service tourists, if we can still manage to attract any with the anti-European sentiments expressed by this duo. Spin-doctored into submission? I think so. - Yours, etc.,Mary Corcoran, Rosslare Harbour, Co Wexford.