A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #201 - Parsimonious government (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

By presenting a budget bill of just €18 billion to Parliament, the 
government has garnered market applause and praise for its austerity 
measures, which have helped it maintain control of public finances . On 
the other hand, the markets are indifferent to the fact that wages have 
depreciated by 7.5% since 2021, and by 8.7% since 2008: one of the worst 
declines among G20 countries. Low wage increases and the constant delays 
in finalizing expired contracts have significantly reduced paychecks. 
The restructuring of tax rates and incomes has contributed to 
exacerbating the phenomenon. However, the government needed to raise 
funds and therefore squeeze employees. It did so with the support and 
backing of the CISL, which signed loss-making contracts that have not 
even recovered the devaluation, while industrial production has been 
declining for 34 months.
Although the CGIL and the grassroots unions are making efforts to raise 
the wage issue, denouncing the government's economic policies, 
starvation wages, and the contradictions underlying
employment statistics, their demands are unattainable by many workers 
due to the lack of a political opposition without a program.
Distrust of institutions and the futility of voting explain how and why, 
despite controlling only 25% of the voter turnout, the governing parties 
manage to dominate the institutions. Anyone who wanted to understand 
finally has all the tools to do so and realize that this government 
exists because it had Draghi's backing, provided it adopted his 
governing methods and program. Meloni did so diligently, and it is no 
coincidence that she inherited her Minister of Economy and Finance
from Draghi. He has added a healthy dose of fascistization to society, 
rehabilitated neo-fascism, clumsily attempting to rewrite history, and 
added a fair amount of repression, from cracking down on public squares 
to closing down social spaces and gathering places. Now he's attacking 
families and their right to housing,
to defend speculators who want to turn city center homes into B&Bs, only 
to then stage a charade over how to tax these businesses. In any case, 
the defense of private property is safe. All this has been seasoned with 
a great deal of nepotism and comradely cronyism, used to occupy 
institutions, dominate information, and appropriate culture, with the 
ambition of rewriting history. Unsuspected and unsuspected associates 
are lending themselves to this work, ready to jump on the winning horse 
whenever it suits them.
What is happening is becoming increasingly serious, and the information 
is falling apart, partly because conformist and servile journalists are 
constantly manipulating information, providing a vision of the world 
that is far removed from reality and implementing a narrative that 
serves the Prime Minister's, or more often, the American master's, 
objectives.
Emblematic of this is the news being reported on the war in Ukraine, 
where tales of Ukrainian victories are being told when, in fact, the 
Donbass front is collapsing.
Ukraine is being portrayed as a democratic state, when in fact it is a 
dictatorial and repressive state, oligarchic no less than Russia, with 
which it is fighting. This light-hearted budget has the sole purpose of 
allowing Italy to comply with the 3% GDP limit and then, in the spring, 
pass a budget amendment aimed entirely at spending the funds to finance 
rearmament. The charade and the shenanigans about banks and the more or 
less voluntary contributions they are supposed to make will ultimately 
result in a handout that is then passed on to account holders, while the 
banks can count on Forza Italia, which defends the interests of the 
Berlusconi family, which owns the party. The government's inaction on 
economic matters, regarding investments to support the economy, is 
nonexistent; well aware of this, the Prime Minister has done everything 
to highlight and extol her international role and her government, which 
is supposedly solid, prestigious, and successful. If what is being said 
is true, the fact that the government has no opposition is the only 
reason it is solid; as for prestige, let's remember the position in the 
photo opportunity taken in Sharm El Sheikh, with the Italian Prime 
Minister in the back right. As for results: none.
On the other hand, given that the dying American empire increasingly 
resembles the Carolingian one at the Court of Emperor Trump, Meloni has 
earned the rank of "bella" Valvassina, which is the lowest noble title 
bestowed on servants by the emperor, so that they govern the 
territories, making the wealth produced flow into the empire's coffers.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2025/11/01/governo-parsimonioso/
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