With the approval of the stability law, a "wasted legislature" ends, as the Head of State said, launching yet another harsh rebuke to the parties currently present in Parliament and above all to the two major PDL and PD. An electoral campaign opens in a frantic way that is not difficult to predict, full of casual, not to say deceptive, propaganda and probably studded with controversies and low blows that will serve to fuel the media circus, but which have little to do with the problems realities of the country and of individual citizens.
It will not be easy for anyone to navigate among so many promises, high-sounding proclamations, commitments to transparency. However, I believe that this time the Italian citizens are determined to avoid falling into the traps of propaganda, and we have the desire to understand from which pulpit the sermon comes. It does not seem that the credibility of traditional parties is on the rise, despite the efforts of professional politicians to make people forget their mismanagement of public affairs, flaunting the need for "politics to return" and that the "popular will" must prevail over everything. . Concepts that are right in themselves and that no one questions, but we need to see if for good politics we can still rely on those who, through incapacity or calculation, have pushed us to the edge of the precipice.
There are still many undecided, and even among those who declare their intention to vote in the polls, many are waiting to understand whether a new political offer will truly emerge, different from the traditional ones, more credible and more reliable. The February elections will be won by whoever is able to formulate with more credibility and with indisputable facts, a proposal capable of getting us out of the recession and reactivate a normal and sustainable growth process. In short, only those who will be able to give substance to the hopes of Italians to have a job and to live in a more orderly, transparent and efficient country and where the raids of many political camarillas are contained and possibly eliminated can hope to win in the polls.
Today, many citizens are angry at the truly excessive burden of taxes, and at the fact that the recession shows no sign of ending. But this is the bill that Berlusconi left us, who for years refused to prevent the crisis that was approaching, who denied the evidence, who let our public sector degrade at all levels until the The intervention of the judiciary highlighted scandalous behavior or at least an unacceptable ease with which public money was used. Could this bill not be paid? No because the consequences of a bankruptcy would have been much more serious than what we have paid so far. Household savings would have evaporated and inflation would have caused drastic cuts in pensions and salaries for all workers and employees. A terrifying scenario that it is absurd to evoke as some agitators of the squares like Grillo or the Northern League do.
But in order to truly reduce the burden of taxation, it is necessary to carry forward a policy of reforms in two directions: to cut the costs of politics and institutions at all levels and to increase the productivity and competitiveness of the economic system to attract investments and therefore create new jobs of work.
Cutting public spending, and above all waste and stealing, is difficult also due to the furious resistance of the lobbies and their political appendages, which thrive on public spending. But it is symptomatic that on this point neither the Pdl nor the Democratic Party have a clear program of action. During his years of government, Berlusconi has not made any significant cuts, he has not eliminated the provinces, he has not put a brake on the expenditure of the regions, he has not privatized or liberalized anything. And you don't see why he should do it now. Bersani doesn't talk about it at all. He and his men are nestled in the state apparatus and certainly do not want to leave. See the case of Monte dei Paschi di Siena where the Municipality had to relinquish its power only after stripping the bank of its flesh until it practically went bankrupt.
As regards the increase in productivity, the Democratic Party will be linked to the positions of Vendola and the CGIL which deny the need for any reform of the labor market and of bargaining (Camusso refused to sign the agreement on the relaunch of company bargaining in the presence of a significant tax relief on the productivity wage). As much as the Pd is trying to obscure the alliance with Vendola during the electoral campaign, this exists and will be heavily conditioning afterwards. We must then start a policy of selling public assets to try to lighten the debt and above all to dismantle the myriad of companies owned by local authorities which are an incredible source of waste and losses. But Bersani does not speak of this, just as the League is in the past it has always been fiercely opposed to the sale of local public companies (its power base). Berlusconi does not deal with such prosaic things, far from his fantasy world of "dwarfs and ballerinas".
