Interview with the General Secretary of the Police Trade Union - Co.I.S.P.
Interview with the General Secretary of Co.I.S.P. Franco Maccari
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We are a Trade Union that is not normally labelled as one that is polite or very calm. We use terms that are pretty strong, but we reckon that we represent the spirit that today is inside the police forces in general, obviously of that part of the State Police, that is made up of the members. Just recently, we have performed an action that is a great provocation, in that on 14 August, someone thought to pick up on it and it’s a provocation that we would have done considering the prices in the restaurant of the Senate and the Lower House, where you can eat for 5.24 Euro and you get a first course, a main course of sea bass with vegetables and so on. Quite frankly it was something that was calling out for a vendetta!
Franco Maccari
Interview with Franco Maccari, the General Secretary of the Police Trade Union - Co.I.S.P.
Tear gas and sea bass
It was at a time when everyone was talking about the prices in the restaurant of the Senate and the Lower House and we said: “OK, we will have to go and throw out a few of these types who don’t reckon they have to adapt to the common life, perhaps we can throw something, there’s the inclination to throw tear gas in the Senate restaurant! ”
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Cuts to the Security Forces It was I who spoke out of line because it was I who said that it was necessary to throw, that there was the will to throw tear gas inside there for those who for years have continued to say that the Italian flag has to be thrown down the toilet or placed on the balcony to act as a screen to protect against the shit from the pigeons, that we are “panzoni” or layabouts. These are all ministers that should also represent the culture, the intelligence “
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We are in the ditch, they are in the dark blue limousines
The fact that they should do certain actions or respect orders, does not invalidate the capacity for reasoning that there is. Often we have our individual abilities, and we have conducted dialogues, with real members of the society of revolt, we have avoided further consequences coming out from negative situations. People cannot see the various acts of heroism that are carried out every day “
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If nothing is done soon to reduce the inequality between politicians and the rich and the rest of the population we could see violent reaction on a major scale.
The remedy during the Great depression was to get industry moving to inrease output and employment. This was fine when the U S had little competition. But today there is less industry to get moving and far more competition from Asia and South America when it comes to producing things.
But the crisis and austerity measures to reduce the debts, such as those announced by Greece, seems to be punishing the poor and middle classes much more than the rich to the extent that it seems the object of Governments is to protect the wealth of the privileged class and make sure the huge wealth gap remains intact.
The UBS trading loss demonstrates that little or nothing has been done to regulate the banking sector, the prime cause of the crisis. Surely it is time that the banks contributed more, at least until we can show that the recession is behind us, however long it takes. Multinational quoted corporations should also be taxed at a higher rate with a cap on the remuneration of bankers, CEOs and boardroom execs in quoted companies at £1m with no bonuses, stock options etc. Shareholders should receive less dividends to make a larger contribution too.
There should be an end to the tax transfers and avoidance schemes of individuals and corporations so that Governments can raise more taxes to repay the debts and the Tobin tax should be introduced on transactions in the stock, currency and commodity markets, not only to reduce speculation but to contribute more to the nation.
None of these measures would deprive the banks, the traders or quoted corporations from making money. But with more tax revenue from those who can afford it Governments could reduce income tax on the poor and middle class and increase public investment to create jobs.
At the same time extra taxes raised from the quoted corporations could be used to lower charges and taxes on the hundreds of thousands of small private companies that contribute 80% of the real economy and create most jobs. This seems to be a far more equitable and sensible way out of the crisis than to keep pouring cash into banks and quoted corporations to compensate their speculation and greed.
Posted by: peterfieldman | September 22, 2011 09:21 PM