19 March 2006

The point of no return

photo from news.bbc.co.uk

All the Italian economic indicators are negative. The Financial Times in a service dedicated to the decline of Italy signed by Desmond Lachman says:  “Italy follows Argentina down the same road to ruin”.

The collapse of exports, the rise in the public debt, increase in unemployment, loss of competiveness, domestic debts, net reduction in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), halving of buying power.
Confindustria, ISTAT, the Bank of Italy, Trades Unions, Italian and foreign financial publications all publish the same alarming data.
We have had five years of political marketing, of negating the truth, of company collapse, fruit of a Government that is merely amateurs playing with the public good, but definitely professionals in their own private business affairs.
We are near to a point of no return.
We need to take off again and take control of those accounts in the State machine that are out of control and give them greater efficiency. We need to recover money lost through tax evasion. We need to get into line with European indicators in terms of costs and quality of things like telecommunications, transport, and energy.

These are concrete things that we can put into effect immediately.
The next elections must mark a major turning point and for this reason we need a massive victory for the Unione.
The 4/5 points separating us according to the latest opinion polls could be insufficient.
In Parliament we must have a large majority so that we can govern without having to contend with the manoeuvres of lobbies and of the CDL parliamentarians.
Not even one single vote can be lost.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Economy