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Originally Posted by potashh
Italy will be a Disneyland
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Miticoman, you may be too young to remember, in 1991 Giuliano Amato gave a speech to the Italian Parliament, warning that Italy should not become the "Disneyland of Europe" (his words, look it up in case you didn't see it yourself on television or hear it yourself on radio).
The context of the speech was economic decline. In the event, Lamberto Dini came along a few years later, he tweaked the pension system a bit, and that was it as far as reforms - economic, political or otherwise - ever went (don't kid yourself), and everything seemed alright until the international financial crisis of 2007-2009 and Italy's triple-dip and ongoing recession since then.
But I sensed by 1997 that the problems were too far gone and no solution was possible. And I perceived then the message from Italy's ruling class to young ambitious people, the message from Italy's fiscal policy, loud and clear: BEAT IT, GET THE F*** OUT, FAST, and don't let the door boot you in the ass as you're leaving.
So, like an obedient son, I heeded that message loud and clear and left Italy for good, I pursued my business from abroad, still serving mainly Italian banks and multinationals, making more than three times the average in my sector, finally settling in a country with low marginal tax rates (by 2014 Fiat - now CNH Industrial and FCA, based in UK, Netherlands and US - copied my example, what took you so long? Hahahahaha!!! ) and, perhaps crazily, brought children into this world, but at least on much more fertile soil.
That's all I can tell you for sure.
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Originally Posted by miticoman
systematic disappearance of the resident population ... do you think that relations of alliance, political and commercial with the US and the State of Israel will be affected? ...
Perhaps Greece will not be the only one to throw off the towel
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You mean throw
in the towel (give up) or throw off the chain around their necks (try to save themselves)?
I don't know.
But where's there is life there is hope. You never know - and here is some wishful thinking -, these Syriza people could actually turn out to be quite pragmatic, perhaps using Kalifornia as a model rather than, say, Venezuela or Cuba or opting for an alliance with Russia.
Perhaps the Italians still remaining in Italy, when thinking 50-60 years into the future, should look back to Italy's 1250-1500 period, after the Muslim (attempted) invasions but before the (final) European (successful) invasions. (I think you know and understand Italian and Venetian history well enough to understand what I am talking about, forget about the other Europeans on this sub-forum).
But maybe not.
Good luck to you, miticoman, good luck.
I don't fully regret having dedicated so much of my youth to that moribund country, I learned a lot and have been greatly blessed, but I never saw with my own eyes the great mosaics of Ravenna - my greatest regret - and I hope I can return there in time to see them before ISIS or some such destroys them. Ask Palmyra.
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