Wiretapping record April 2010. Imprecise location in Brianza.

B/P3:Italy has gone bust
T/Rex: It’s enough to just not say so
T/Rex: and to say the opposite is even more effective!
B/P3: But Italy has gone bust all the same. Every month the public debt is growing by 10 to 15 billion. You know perfectly well that in a bit it won’t even be able to pay the interest on the debt … Telling a pack of lies is no use any more …1900 billion of debts forecast for spring 2011 …
T/Rex: We will make use of the policy of the Anti-phrases (*)1...
B/P3: Anti-phrases ?
T/Rex: Yes, it’s a bit like the Anti-mafia that makes an agreement with Provenzano
B/P3: (Laughter…)
T/Rex: It’s simple. We’ll do the opposite of what they did in Greece.
B/P3: Explain.
T/Rex: George Papandreou announced the default. You’ll say that we have started the recovery, that we are better than the average of the European States. (*)2
B/P3: Yes sure – I can say that. You know that’s not a problem for me … but the ship is sinking all the same … Real unemployment is the highest in Europe. Salaries are the lowest and the money in the fund to pay laid-off workers is about to dry up.
T/Rex: Greece first declared there was a crisis and then it put into action the anti-crisis measures. They presented a shit image… We, however, will present a great image. We will put into action the anti-crisis measures without announcing the pre-default. But we will say they are for the recovery
B/P3: The Italians are stupid but not to that extent…
T/Rex: You have always over-estimated them. Otherwise folk like Ingroia and Travaglio would already be in prison to the jubilation of the populace. Anyway, you can always try later with them…
B/P3: Have we got an alternative?
T/Rex: Yes – the “coup d’état”, but I just think of it as a back-up measure. Papandreou put a block on the salaries of public employees, he increased pensionable age, he put the Greek islands up for sale (*)3. We’ll do the same. We’ll call it a package for development and we’ll say that it’s Europe that obliges us to do it. Italy will be sold off to the private sector by means of “ Federalism of public property”, for the pension that’ll come only after 40 years of contributions and there’ll be a block on public sector increases for three years. The important thing is to keep the Confindustria and the banks onside. We won’t touch the gains of the public concessions and we won’t tax the banking sector.
B/P3: What would you say to some “spaghetti alla puttanesca” and some European seabass?
T/Rex: Great idea. And while we are eating I want to talk to you about Public Parks in concession to the private sector and a tax on grinding, you know … Luigi Menabrea’s old law of the 1800s
B/P3: Ah – but the default, will we manage to escape it?
T/Rex: No, but no one will notice

(*)1 Anti-phrases: it is saying the opposite of what you are thinking. It’s divided into irony (lighter) and sarcasm (heavy).
(*)2 A fact that actually happened with the declaration of the Italian GDP growing by more than the European States (+0.4%)
(*)3 March 2010, the Greek government put in place a series of measures aimed at restoring public accounts to health. Measures included blocking the salaries of public employees and a reform of the pension system, for a total of 4.8 billion euro.