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five-star MoVement: Political communiqué number thirty-one
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Political communiqué number thirty-one
Here is summary of the Italian situation. The political parties no longer represent the citizens. The deputies no longer represent the Italian population but merely serve those who appointed them. Public resources are being transferred into private hands either through sales or by means of concessions being granted to run our motorways, our water resources and the disposal of our waste. Production is in free-fall, as is employment. Fiat is shutting down its factories. The multinational company Alcoa is pulling out of Italy. An endless stream of companies has either gone bankrupt, like Phonemedia with its 7,000 employees, or are busy firing people, like Italtel. The Public Debt is out of control and this is no joke. In 2009 we got ourselves further into debt to the tune of 140 billion Euro. Our public debt has now reached 1,800 billion, by 2010 it will rise to 2,000 billion and we will be paying some 80 billion in interest alone. We are not exporting any more, but our imports are stable. In one year, the foreign outflow worsened by about one and a half billion Euro. There is no business plan for the future, to regain our competitivity. We are planning huge works to facilitate the transportation of goods that we are not producing. The Tav, the Messina Straits Bridge, and the High-speed Train Service may be good business for those that are building them, but Italy doesn’t need them and they are draining tens of billions of Euro from the State budget that could otherwise be invested in innovation. Italians pay the highest taxes in Europe but their salaries are 32% lower than the European average. Tremorti has applied a 5% tax rate on capital hidden from the Revenue Department, money of Mafia origin, income from illegal trafficking activities or simple tax evasion. The honest taxpayers who work for the taxman for at least six months of the year have not appreciate this move and now, following this example, if possible they too will become tax evaders. The Government doesn’t spare a thought for the Country, they are too busy passing laws to reform the justice system and prevent Berlusconi landing up in jail. Our international image has been destroyed and now, after Berlusconi, the time of the stand-ins has arrived, from Bertolaso in Haiti to Frattini at Hammamet. Public morality has sunk to the levels expected of Bokassa and Idi Amin, with that thief Bottino Craxi being elevated to the status of Statesman. Information has disappeared, once upon a time it was at least partly, free but now it has been dispelled. The only remaining source of information is the Web, against which it seems that new laws are being introduced on a monthly basis, or the Swiss television service in Northern Italy. The Country is being further cemented over year after year, and the 100 most splendid cities of Italy are being turned into gas chambers, parking garages and shopping malls. The Italian universities that led the way for centuries have disappeared from the international listings. Our future is made up of nuclear power stations, incinerators, bypasses, motorways, regasification terminals and parking areas. We can only blame ourselves for all of this, no one else. We now have an opportunity to change things. It is now possible to support a new organisation in which everyone is equal and our children are even more important. All that is needed is your signature (tinyurl.com/yzxvd99) for the five-star MoVement’s regional election lists this coming Saturday and Sunday. Let’s not waste this opportunity to spread the word. They may never give up (but they are falling apart under our very eyes), but neither will we.
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Political communiqué number thirty-one
Here is summary of the Italian situation. The political parties no longer represent the citizens. The deputies no longer represent the Italian population but merely serve those who appointed them. Public resources are being transferred into private hands either through sales or by means of concessions being granted to run our motorways, our water resources and the disposal of our waste. Production is in free-fall, as is employment. Fiat is shutting down its factories. The multinational company Alcoa is pulling out of Italy. An endless stream of companies has either gone bankrupt, like Phonemedia with its 7,000 employees, or are busy firing people, like Italtel. The Public Debt is out of control and this is no joke. In 2009 we got ourselves further into debt to the tune of 140 billion Euro. Our public debt has now reached 1,800 billion, by 2010 it will rise to 2,000 billion and we will be paying some 80 billion in interest alone. We are not exporting any more, but our imports are stable. In one year, the foreign outflow worsened by about one and a half billion Euro. There is no business plan for the future, to regain our competitivity. We are planning huge works to facilitate the transportation of goods that we are not producing. The Tav, the Messina Straits Bridge, and the High-speed Train Service may be good business for those that are building them, but Italy doesn’t need them and they are draining tens of billions of Euro from the State budget that could otherwise be invested in innovation. Italians pay the highest taxes in Europe but their salaries are 32% lower than the European average. Tremorti has applied a 5% tax rate on capital hidden from the Revenue Department, money of Mafia origin, income from illegal trafficking activities or simple tax evasion. The honest taxpayers who work for the taxman for at least six months of the year have not appreciate this move and now, following this example, if possible they too will become tax evaders. The Government doesn’t spare a thought for the Country, they are too busy passing laws to reform the justice system and prevent Berlusconi landing up in jail. Our international image has been destroyed and now, after Berlusconi, the time of the stand-ins has arrived, from Bertolaso in Haiti to Frattini at Hammamet. Public morality has sunk to the levels expected of Bokassa and Idi Amin, with that thief Bottino Craxi being elevated to the status of Statesman. Information has disappeared, once upon a time it was at least partly, free but now it has been dispelled. The only remaining source of information is the Web, against which it seems that new laws are being introduced on a monthly basis, or the Swiss television service in Northern Italy. The Country is being further cemented over year after year, and the 100 most splendid cities of Italy are being turned into gas chambers, parking garages and shopping malls. The Italian universities that led the way for centuries have disappeared from the international listings. Our future is made up of nuclear power stations, incinerators, bypasses, motorways, regasification terminals and parking areas. We can only blame ourselves for all of this, no one else. We now have an opportunity to change things. It is now possible to support a new organisation in which everyone is equal and our children are even more important. All that is needed is your signature (tinyurl.com/yzxvd99) for the five-star MoVement’s regional election lists this coming Saturday and Sunday. Let’s not waste this opportunity to spread the word. They may never give up (but they are falling apart under our very eyes), but neither will we.
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