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Why Monti Lost – "Don’t be mess’n wit de peoples bro!"

Why Monti Lost – "Don’t be mess’n wit de peoples bro!"

Tom Verso (February 26, 2013)

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, the February 2013 Italian election results suggest the people of Italy are beginning to wonder: What is the difference between a ‘Gangster’ and ‘Bankster-Politician’? Worker protests have been increasingly frequent and increasingly aggressive, and this election is clearly a protest against the Monti Bankster government. In short, “You can mess with de peoples just but so long Jim and then it’s ‘so-long’ Jim.”

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Introduction

While Italy relentless pursues low level petty gangsters, relentlessly magnified in mass media as treats to the nation and cause of national ills, the crème de la crème at the national government level, acting on behalf of international financers, systematically steal money from the Italian working class with impunity.
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 income. This 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 Italy
A specific example, of how an Italian national politician acts with an international financier’s interest in mind, was Mario Monti’s push of a new Italian corruption law at the behest of an Arab Sheik:
“Monti said 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 Sheik. The ‘old laws’ presumably were fine for Italians; but the Sheik was not pleased with them, so Monti, formerly of Goldman Sacks international financers, saw to it that a new law, to the Sheik’s liking, was passed. 
One wonders if the law was written in Italy or Qatar?
Similarly, one can see reams of evidence in the financial press describing how Monti bends over backwards to benefit the international ‘banksters.
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.”
“Auserity” understood as reduction in working class standard of living.
Exactly who these investors were, was not reported. However, in another article the exact meaning of “investor” is made clear - Mario Monti’s old boss for one.
“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.
Further, these corruption laws are not symbolic gestures to the Sheik-Banksters. They are meant to give their Italian political operative real power in the face of any treats from the one person and political party capable of bringing down the Sheik-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 thenPrime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Liberty Party. And, Lombardo was once part of a Berlusconi national coalition government.
 
Workers be Damned
While Monti bends over backward to accommodate Sheik-Banksters, he tells Italian workers “Forget-About-It”.
Last February, for example, three major trade unions organized protest against the so-called “Pension System Reform” introduced by the Sheik-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 Sheik-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, and will have to put money aside,” Dinelli, 58, said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Rome. “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 of what the Sheik-Bankster Monti government euphemistic calls with unmitigated gall and arrogance of power “reform programs!”
Economist, political scientist and other scholars, even movie scriptwriters (e.g. Gomrrah) get in on the act (no pun intended). But, none of these so-called analysis and reformers even remotely considers the age-old adage and the Italian elections demonstrated once again: “Chicken always come home to roost!”   

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