The Italian State has become a great big “suk” of "capitalism fulfilled". A Market-State with a hyphen. What was public has been privatised, from the banks, energy, telecommunications, and whatever couldn’t be privatised has been gifted to the multinationals and private individuals in the form of concessions, from water to the motorways, from Veolia to Benetton. The relationship between the citizen and the State has been transformed into a relationship between the citizen and the Market. A market that paradoxically has available to it, the goods that the citizen was the owner of. I don’t know whether you realise it, but we are paying for structures and services that have already been paid for by our fathers and our grandparents. The motorways should be free, they were built kilometre after kilometre by decades of taxes.
From 01 January the motorway tolls go up and in reality that’s a “pizzo” {extortion by the mafia}. It’s immoral that the concessionaires pocket billions of euro that should go to the State. Using debts, Telecom italia was sold by D'Alema and destroyed financially, put in the position of not being able to make investments, but it has anyway distributed billions and billions of dividends and paid hundreds of millions of euro in “stock options” to ragged-arsed entrepreneurs. How much richer have the people like Buora, Colaninno, Tronchetti and Gnutti become? These fortunes (because it’s a matter of colossal sums) should have been paid to the State coffers. Telecom Italia belonged to the Italians. Privatising it has made us all poorer. The assets of the State are not “available” to the parties to be used as “pocket money” for their own motives. The State belongs to us including everything that it contains and if something has popped out of the box, it has to go back in. The battle for public water is sacred and it should be extended to every fundamental resource, from energy, to the Telecom backbone. The famous phrase from the wretched Fassino, “We have a bank!”, the banking foundations with which the parties control the banks (starting with Unicredit), the Lega’s Credieuronord and the satellite banks of the PDL are the demonstration that we are not governed by statesmen nor by administrators of condominiums, but by people that don’t understand the difference between the Italian Republic and an Institution of Private Credit.
In the last fifty years the only public thing that has increased has been the public debt. The parties have spent without asking permission and without having cover. They have spent 1,850 billion for useless works that have assigned fabulous salaries to themselves, they have created superstructure like the provinces for their mates. The parties have robbed us of what was ours and they have got us into debt (in fact it will be us who pay the debt) to create electoral financing. Homer’s Proci in comparison were philanthropists. Just as shit attracts flies, our money attracts politicians. This is why shit, and thus money has to be eliminated. The salaries of the politicians, of the Regions, of Parliament, have to be brought into line with those of the average worker. Financing to the parties has to be abolished and primary services have to be nationalised and returned to their legitimate owners. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.