Italy’s Anti-Labor ‘Sceccu-Bankster’ Government ...“The Fish Rots from the Head Down”
Italy’s Anti-Labor ‘Sceccu-Bankster’ Government ...“The Fish Rots from the Head Down”
(October 30, 2012)
If a Gangster stops you on the street, puts a gun into your face and demands the money in your wallet; it is a crime punishable by imprisonment ... If, on the other hand, government officials pass pension ‘reform laws’, thereby taking pension money from your wallet and giving it to international ‘Banksters’; no crime is committed, no penalties accrue ... In both cases your money is taken from your wallet, against your will (under duress), and given to another person. In both cases your ability to pay for your family’s material needs are compromised. It seems to me, from reading English language international news, the people of Italy are beginning to wonder: What is the difference between a ‘Gangster’ and ‘Bankster-Politician’? Worker protest are increasingly frequent and increasingly aggressive, and the low voter turn out recently in Sicily suggest that Sicilians, at least, are thinking there is no difference between voting in Italy and gambling in Las Vegas – they’re both ‘house-games’ – no matter how you vote/bet the house always ends up with your money.
Introduction
Italy relentlessly pursues low level petty gangsters, and mass media relentlessly magnify gangsters to mythical levels as threats to the nation and the cause of national ills. Meanwhile, the crème de la crème at the national government level, acting on behalf of international financers, systematically steal money from the Italian working class, on a scale unimaginable by gangsters, with impunity and immunity.
The heads of Western national governments, generally and Italy in particular, acting on behalf of international financial interests are systematically reducing the standard of living of the working class.
“Working Class” understood in this context as people whose standard of living is solely (or primarily) dependent on wage income defined in the US as W-2 wages (aka salary). This is to say, reductions in wage income or savings from wage income or pensions derived from wage income results in reductions in the working class standard of living.
“Working Class” understood in this context as people whose standard of living is solely (or primarily) dependent on wage income defined in the US as W-2 wages (aka salary). This is to say, reductions in wage income or savings from wage income or pensions derived from wage income results in reductions in the working class standard of living.
Sheiks and Banksters have their way with Italian working class
A specific example, of how an Italian national politician acts with an international financier’s interest in mind at the expense of the working class, is Mario Monti’s push for a new Italian corruption law at the behest of an Arab Sheik (or as the Sicilians say...Sceccu [double entendre: Arab-Sicilian Sheiks rode on Donkeys] ):
“Monti said today that the (corruption) bill will help attract investment to Italy and cited conversations with the Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani that he was reluctant to invest in Italy because of corruption issues.
In short, Italy needed a ‘new’ corruption law to please the Sceccu. The ‘old laws’ presumably were fine for Italians; but the Sceccu was not pleased with them, so Monti, formerly in the employ of Goldman Sacks international financers, saw to it that a 'new law', to the Sceccu’s liking, was passed.
One wonders if the law was written in Italy or Qatar?
Further, these corruption laws are not symbolic gestures to appease the Sceccu-Banksters. They are meant to give the Italian political operatives of the Sceccu-Banksters real power in the face of any treats from the one person and political party capable of bringing down the Sceccu-Bankster Monti government.
- Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was convicted in a Milan court...
- The embattled governor of Italy's powerful Lombardy region, has announced the dissolution of the regional legislature as Italy's mounting political corruption scandal claims its biggest victim yet. Roberto Formigoni has been facing calls for his own resignation.
- Lazio Region President Renata Polverini resigned amid a party financing scandal...
- President of Sicily Region Raffaele Lombardo resigned over corruption charges
Both Polverini and Formigoni were elected as heads of their regions in 2010 with the support of then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Liberty Party. And, Lombardo was once part of a Berlusconi national coalition government.
So to be perfectly clear, the possible challengers to the Sceccu-Bankster Monti government are corrupt, and supporters of Mario's gang are not currupt. They're the good guys - don't y'ah know?
Workers be Damned
Similarly, one can see reams of evidence in the financial press describing how Monti bends over backwards to benefit the international banksters at the expense of workers.
For example:
“The benchmark 10-year Italian bond yield surged to 6.79% as investors voiced their concerns over Rome's ability to push through austerity measures.”
Exactly who were those investors demanding "Italian worker's austerity"? Surprise: Mario Monti’s old boss Goldman was one, and Bank of Scotland another. Indeed, the Bank of Scotland was also conerned about Italian elections.
“Exit Goldman
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, cut its holdings of Italian sovereign debt by 92 percent to $191 million in the second quarter...”
“Any significant move toward anti-austerity or non- conventional political forces such as Grillo could be dangerous for market confidence,” Biagio Lapolla, a rate strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London, said before the vote.
An Arab Sceccu, a New York Investment Bank and the Bank of Scotland all have there hands in the Italian government - you can't make this stuff up!
While Monti bends over backward to accommodate Sceccu-Banksters, he tells Italian workers “Forget-About-It”.
While Monti bends over backward to accommodate Sceccu-Banksters, he tells Italian workers “Forget-About-It”.
For example, three major trade unions organized protest against the so-called “Pension System Reform” introduced by the Sceccu-Bankster Monti (nominally Italian) government.
Unions accuse Monti of introducing measures that are unfair to workers and pensioners and causing unemployment.
Susanna Camusso CGIL Union Leader:
“Equity means that workers should be allowed to retire without being unemployed for too long” Unions are demanding Monti introduce measures that less well off people will benefit from. Workers who are unemployed will not be able to retire if they can’t pay their pension contribution.
Workers had individual agreements with companies that entitled them to benefits that are being cancelled NOT by parties to the contract (employers and workers), but unilaterally by the Sceccu-Bankster Monti government.
“Maria Dinelli is one such person. When she left Alitalia SpA (AZA) in 2008, her early-retirement deal with the airline provided jobless benefits until her pension payments begin in 2015. Now, under the reform that raised the retirement age, Dinelli won’t get the payments until 2017, leaving her stuck in a two-year gap without any income.
“I’ll be without a salary or pension for two full years before the retirement age...,” said Dinelli, 58. “You were told you had guarantees, then you lose it all because a new government takes power and changes the rules.”
Estimates run as high as 300,000 workers are in a similar situation.
In short, the standard of living of the Italian working class is being bleed by what the Sceccu-Bankster Monti government euphemistically calls, with unmitigated gall and arrogance of power - “reform programs!”
There are no shortages of opinions about the causes and cures of Italy's problems; economists, political scientists and other scholars, even movie scriptwriters (e.g. Gomrrah) get in on the act (pun intended). But, none of these so-called analysis and reformers even remotely considers the age-old adage:
“The Fish Rots from the Head Down”
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