If the ECB had not intervened last Tuesday to buy our State waste paper that no one wanted, Italy would already be on the road to default. Anything but the miracle proclaimed by Napolitano who has found the time to receive Woody Allen in his shirt sleeves, together with his wardrobe-shaped wife.
What happened is “o' miracolo”. The blood of the Opposition became liquid (it’s not even as though it were the blood of Saint Gennaro).The Opposition that voted for the 80 billion euro package without even minimally denting the privileges of the politicians. The cost is 1,000 euro per family and zero euro for the parliamentarians. The deputies that voted out of a “sense of responsibility” and were praised by the Head of State, are the same ones that a few days ago absented themselves for the abolition of the Provinces, that receive a billion in public contributions for their parties and that happily qualify for a pension after one legislature. They should spit in their own faces when they look at themselves in the mirror. Instead they send out messages of solidarity like someone who has just escaped from a possible shipwreck. Nothing has been asked for in exchange for the blood of the Italians. People will retire at 68 years and two months (but those who are thirty years old will retire at 70).What’s the use of INPS? Where’s the money that we have contributed? This institution has to be abolished. From now on, let each person keep their own contributions, starting with what they have already paid in, and then decide when they want to stop working. They have brought in the payment for tests and visits to specialist doctors, basically everything.
“O' miracolo do o' Quirinale” and of the PDminusL. In exchange for the package, they should have asked for the immediate resignation of the government, a President of the Council appointed as a technical measure for a limited time to save the whole ship, the cut in the unbearable privileges of the politicians, a new election law, the elimination of public financing to newspapers and to the parties, the block on every Great Useless Public Work, from the Gronda to the TAV. Nothing has been asked for. Nothing has been done. The parties believe that they are safe. The Nation has been fucked one more time. For them it’s been a miracle, for the Italians, the umpteenth time we’ve been fucked around. The 80 billion is not enough to avoid the default, and not even 200 would be enough. Perhaps what’s waiting for us is the tax on patrimony, a sum of money taken from current accounts and the freezing of State bonds. It’ll be a new Italian-style miracle.