WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI #176: A small government (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 After a year of the Meloni Government, a budget is necessary: its

activity resembles that of the administration of a condominium, which is
also family-run, which is limited to ordinary administration and some
emergency interventions. seasoned by the factionalism that characterizes
the relationships between administrator and condominiums. A condominium
where the important roles are distributed among the loyalists, sometimes
among relatives, within the framework of family management of the
association. A condominium with a blocked budget, because the previous
administrators took steps to spend everything possible and the last of
them made commitments and set the budget items in such a rigid way that
for a year all that remained was ordinary administration. A price that
Meloni consciously paid in order to be called upon to take over the
government of the country.
Using the fact that the budget was set by Draghi, discretion was
exercised even with the interventions necessary to deal with
emergencies, choices were made, proof of which is that after the
commercial of the visit to the places of the flood in Romagna, the
government has reduced aid to the victims, supported by the fact that
the disaster has hit a region governed by the opposition: the flood
victims of Romagna and those of Tuscany know this well, as they are
still waiting for a few euros and have the only alternative that of
rolling up your sleeves and doing it yourself.
In this situation, the Government was able to maintain that it had
carried out the ordinary maintenance, when and how it could, being very
careful to favor friendly tenants, those who supported it in the renewal
of the office as administrator of the condominium, leaving unresolved
and often making the problems of others worse. The consequence was
clear. The poorest affected inexorably, with the abolition of
citizenship income and many other small concessions and benefits such as
housing vouchers, help for women in difficulty, etc. The resources thus
obtained went to favor some small categories of loyalists, to modify
taxation in their favor
of self-employed workers, of this or that group, to whom some small
advantage has been granted, with the result that two workers who receive
the same income pay less taxes if they are self-employed and more taxes
if they are employees.
The rest of the government's action was made up of spot measures such as
the one on raves , with which the Government inaugurated its action,
followed by disastrous interventions on one of the key political issues
in right-wing propaganda: the migrant issue. The behaviors and
responsibilities in the Cutro shipwreck and the decree that followed are
the demonstration of the inability, inhumanity, incompetence and
inefficiency of the Government's policy regarding immigration.
With the passage of time and the approach of the new budget law, it has
been seen that the margins for maneuver and economic availability are
almost non-existent and so the "Lampedusa drama" is mounting. By
blocking NGO rescues at sea with the Cutro decree, it was possible to
direct the flow of migrants towards a single hub, so that the emergency
became clear and evident, aided by wars, natural disasters, hunger and
poverty growing. The infamous and elusive agreement with the Tunisian
government for the
forced containment of migrants in detention facilities, placing the tap
on the flow of migrants in the hands of a racist dictator like Kaïs
Saïed, handing himself hostage to a blackmail policy, supported and
financed by the European Union which, like the Italian government, has
no intention of addressing the real causes of migration, consisting of
the exploitation of the economies in the countries of origin, the
choices imposed on agriculture in those countries, the exploitation of
the mineral wealth of those peoples, the wars, the climatic and natural
events.
The European Union, like Italy, hides behind the fig leaf of the climate
crisis, not even admitted by everyone, but they are careful not to
propose the containment of the exploitation that the West, and not only,
operate every day against of the economies of poor countries, draining
their resources, destroying their economies
subsistence, sowing hunger and misery among desperate populations and,
forced to surrender their best strengths through emigration.
Catastrophic forecasts on the demographic growth of Africa are bandied
about to predict an inevitable invasion of Europe, avoiding underlining
that the majority of the African population is now urbanized and that
this inevitably - like everywhere - is destined to produce a short-term
decline in birth rates, so the the real problem will be the predatory
activity of rich countries which will take young resources away from
Africa, compromising its development.

The successes of the Government

The government claims the stability of the Italian economy as its
success, supported by the data coming from the market. The Italian
economy is facing the economic situation with particular success,
maintaining a growth rate, albeit modest, compared to the German economy
in recession. The positivity of the situation would also be attested by
the employment rate as high as ever.
However, what the Government neglects to say is that it is benefiting
from the long wave of the economic rebound following the pandemic and
from the economic measures to relaunch economic activities adopted by
the Conte government and then supported by the Draghi government.
Furthermore, the Government's disastrous choices in managing the PNRR
are not yet clear and evident and therefore the Government's
inefficiency and inability, its lack of planning, the absence of
prospects and an idea of the country are not clear to everyone. , while
Covid reappears (ignored by the Government) and healthcare is collapsing,
Conversely, the occupation of power implemented by the right, down to
the smallest hole, by the management of public affairs and the economy,
is clear and evident for everyone, with the result of having brought an
incapable political class to run the country. , of unpresentable people,
of professional businessmen, of incompetent people. The choice is
decidedly vast: we can start from the prime minister's entourage, from
her beloved brother-in-law, who said he was alarmed at the ethnic
substitution to which the country would be exposed and at the same time
declared that the poor in this country eat better than rich. He was
echoed on repeated occasions by the non-relative Ministers of Education
and Demerit and of Culture, and the ineffable undersecretary Sgarbi with
his friend Morgan, and many, many other ministers and undersecretaries,
I maintain them from the most diverse professions, so numerous that we
lose count. Despite this, the Minister of the Family, who does not,
stands out among these it misses the opportunity to express unacceptable
stupidities and insults to women, to the point of making stoning an
acceptable and necessary practice in extreme contexts.
The occupation of power did not stop at parliamentary seats and the
Government, but concerned information, through the forced or "voluntary"
removal of inconvenient operators, so as to be able to normalize the
conveyance of messages directed to public opinion, excluding the
presence of any even minimally critical voice, resulting in a
substantial diaspora of opponents, albeit moderated, by the media.
The fact remains that in the absence of economic resources to manage to
reward this or that social group, the Government's identity recipes, its
constant re-proposal of institutions from the late twenty years, was the
tool through which to make everyone understand that the wind has changed
, that a new era is preparing for the country.

The fight against emigration as a weapon of mass distraction

While every day new deaths at work lengthen a tragic list, while
inflation bites, wages lose their purchasing power, work becomes
increasingly precarious and worse paid, healthcare falls to pieces,
schools too, works are being planned pharaonic like the bridge over the
strait, while internal transport is deteriorating, with thousands of
bridges at risk of collapsing, roads in disrepair, secondary rail
transport in continuous degradation and with hydrogeological instability
reigning supreme, the government parties have started the electoral
campaign for the European elections, unleashing competition on the right
to use emigration as the decisive weapon of mass distraction.
The League and the Brothers of Italy, convinced as they are that
competition is the soul of trade and a harbinger of certain success,
have unleashed a competition to claim for themselves the fight against
emigration defined tout court as clandestine. While Meloni relies on
Ursula von der Leyen, proposing herself as one of the supporters of her
future re-election and obtaining in exchange the promise of economic
support to buy the consent of the rulers of the coastal states of North
Africa, so that they, handsomely paid, hold the immigrants, by stopping
the flows towards Europe, Salvini forms an axis with Le Pen, to
re-propose his decrees and at the same time gain the votes of the
electorate in support of a right-wing management of the European
Commission, Faced with an inconsistent opposition, incapable of
presenting itself as a real alternative to a delinquent political
proposal, the strategy of the two risks being successful. It is not
enough, as the left does, to repeat that the problems are different and
that emigration is a false problem, but it is necessary to respond in
the first instance to the migratory problem and say, clearly, as a
priority, that it can only be resolved by giving up plunder the
countries of origin of the migrants of their resources, in order to
allow them to live a dignified life.
Only after the rediscovery of internationalist solidarity, as a
necessary element of relations between peoples, but also as the main
instrument for solving, or at least addressing, the migration problem,
should concrete struggles be set up on wages, work, healthcare, services
, on school and everything else necessary for a good quality of life,
not forgetting the rejection of weapons, military expenses and war,
which not only causes deaths, but squanders the available resources
necessary for a better quality of life.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2023/09/21/un-governo-piccolo-piccolo/
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