The reduction of public debt, the mother of all battles and the son of all bastards, that 15 years is still there, but nobody had noticed-and yet it is among the largest of the planet's best not to delude ourselves: when the government debt is so big, they pay him more nations, namely families.
Provided that you have to pay.
He says the ironic wisdom, made without its ironies by Italic political: to pay and there is always time to die.
why the Italian public debt interest payments are disbursed about 70 billion euros each year from state coffers, which in turn empties the boxes and boxes of citizens.
With half of those interests, there would be no need of financial maneuvers that time every year, since time immemorial, the Italian governments are forced to do.
With 35 billion Euros per year are payable in 10 years (350 billion euros): the remaking of brand new and full all road and rail network of Italy, re-new ports and airports, telephone lines and satellite networks for telecommunications. Provide jobs and wealth to millions of Italians.
But here in Italy do not have to start all over again: just fix what already exists, complete what we have designed and plan to upgrade what is there. So much more would be spent and what else to do, redo, repair, equip, schools and universities, hospitals, housing, research institutes, nurseries, facilities for the elderly ... and much more without necessary to cut spending without raising taxes unnecessary, without gaining weight for 35 billion, foreign banks, and 17.5 billion for Italian banks and investment funds controlled by Italian banks. In fact, the beneficiaries of the Italian public debt interest are the foreign banks for 50% and Italian banks, directly and indirectly, 25%. With inevitable consequences in terms of political control of the Italian State.
buy more than 80% for gas and oil from abroad. Without this the country would stop, would remain in the dark, cold winter and boil in summer, and offices, laboratories, workshops, professional offices, factories, could not work. We are among the most dependent nations of the world abroad for energy. Just like 38 years ago.
Many were not born in Italy and not remember those Sundays in which to save fuel, cars had to move to number plate: a Sunday plate with those of the other ones with odd license plate. Was because the Arab countries of black gold producers had decided to reduce the extraction of oil from their wells. Since then nothing has changed: we continue to depend entirely abroad. But abroad, driven away our best researchers, even those who get the Nobel Prize. An example? Prof. Carlo Rubbia. One who has patented power plants that use solar energy without the need for panels Photovoltaic silicon. Been unemployed in Italy, is building in Spain, 20 solar power stations, from 25 megawatts each, with integrated distribution network, each capable of providing electricity, enough for a city of 30,000 inhabitants. Sorry if it is little. From the moment in which plants begin to operate, the Spaniards do not spend a single cent for oil, coal or gas to go ahead. Avoiding, sorry if it's not, to send into the atmosphere tons and tons of poisonous gas.
In Germany, Sweden, the United States and many other places experiencing decades hybrid forms of energy production and energy saving, patented and built engines, fuel cells, switches and blades for wind power, solar panels. We are very good to buy from their panels, batteries, converters, and all the paraphernalia required. We import more than even the energy devices to save power.
no doubt about it.
We who have the greatest need to reduce dependence on foreign countries, invest in LNG terminals, in order to consume more gas from abroad. Of course, we do because we have the water to the throat, the throat and we have water because we have 40 years left to ENI, ENEL, but no clear policy, with a capital P, has ever been practiced by remotely ours. Now if we reflect a bit a 'saying we are not producing oil and gas, we have little, then ENEL and ENI oil and gas do not produce, buy abroad and sell it to the Italians. So, what interest they have to sell less? Mica are idiots? But you know a trader who decides not to sell goods and earn less?
Our factories, our professional offices, our factories, our workshops, our public and private offices, our fields are not very productive. That is, to do the same things that others do in the rest of the world, take more time, and fatally, by spending more. In Italy, it takes more hours to make a car, a washing machine, phone, connect a telephone or a gas plant, the network, bringing goods from production areas to markets, to secure a loan from a bank, for an administrative permit, for a ruling. All this makes Italian products more expensive for the Italians themselves, and for the rest of the world.
But in Italy the arguments that are made mainly concern the cost of labor. That is, it says, but here an hour's work to a contractor costs 22.5 Euro in Asia and costs 1 Euro. Here-we-say employers need to reduce labor costs by lowering taxes, otherwise we will not be competitive. And the other part is in dispute: see that the salaries, Italian pensions and wages are the lowest in Europe, reducing taxes or the people you do not take it anymore. An intermediate line (a very clever man) between the two positions he says: we must reduce taxes and taxes imposed on businesses and labor, so labor costs will be lower and the benefit of employers and workers' incomes will be higher.
That said, reducing taxes wages, salaries and pensions, how to reduce the public debt of Italy? And how does his total dependence on foreign energy? And finally, how to reduce the amount of hours needed to produce and distribute goods, services and capital?
political leaders, industrialists and trade union somehow think that by increasing salaries, wages and pensions, and putting these increases in the state, the problems are resolved. But now we realize that we really are successful and in 2009 all have a few hundred euros more to spend, exaggerate a thousand euros more per year.
Some people think that the problems will be solved?
And if next year things were worse because the oil price increases we have made yet, or foreign goods sold in Italy are still a little cheaper? What you should put more in the state, that is shared by all?
What kind of politics?
is not the same thing to reduce labor costs or increase their productivity. By reducing labor costs increases the profitability of the company, that is what the company earns, and does not diminish the number of hours needed for investment, production, distribution, control, protection.
And then, someone really thinks of bringing labor costs to the levels of Asia?
unheeded for centuries economists explain that the higher the value added to products and exchange them with the investments (machinery, equipment, technologies, new materials, infrastructure), the lower the incidence of labor costs on the cost of the product or its distribution. A hectare of land cultivated with the hoe has nothing to do with the same hectare with a tractor. In four hours an employee who leads a tractor does the same work that farmers do 10-20 in eight hours. Even if you were to pay for each hour worked by that worker 4 times, 5 times, 6 times more time to work than use the hoe, there would always be a greater profit margin for the entrepreneur and the possibility to cultivate larger areas.
The difference in the results useful for both the worker and the entrepreneur, is their investment. It makes no sense to think about cost when hourly labor productivity is greatly different between those who compete.
Now, for a country like ours, the challenge is this: increase public and private investments to increase productivity, focus on investments that are not qualitatively or quantitatively, can be emulated by competitors for foreign companies. For investment, however, need many, many money. Nobody says how to find them.
Other than labor costs!
The vast majority of managers, unions, financial and business of the beautiful country but does not require a commitment by the political establishment of the type previously described. Do not give a damn. As long as someone provides tax relief, all is well, increase profits, wages and pensions increase. All right.
All right.
And the political establishment, more concerned Election of marketing, offers every type of voter that type what you demand. Does not address in his talk about the needs of the nation. This is not just questions on how to increase productivity and profitability rather wink (that is, how much more you can earn money) for labor and capital. Someone resurrects from the grave the old formula of more consumption, more production, more production, more jobs. We try to apply it in practice: we do more consumption of mobile phones? Someone knows an Italian company that manufactures mobile phones? Let's try with television: some big Italian company that manufactures them? There are still cars, though. Yes, every 6 10 cars sold are foreign. One could go on talking about wheat and dairy products, dairy products, plastic products, steel, etc.. The increase in consumption, namely the fact that most people buy something more, surely end up with the increasing number of people involved in the manufacture and distribution of those same things, but not necessarily lie with the increase of employment same territory. It opposed the increased production of shoes and glasses are covered by a patent (Geox, Luxottica) made by Italian companies has resulted in a huge increase in profits for those businesses and tax revenue to the Italian, but no increase Employment in Italy. They call this series of effects that globalization has buried the correlation between demand and employment. In the world there are those who manufactures products that do not consume and consumes those products that are not factory, the first thing that often happened to the social classes of the same nation, and today happens not only between social classes among different nations. And there are those who invested capital and profits on the production or distribution of goods not related with the territory.
And at the same time, this political class looks to foreign energy dependence, a nod to nuclear energy, knowing that it will take 10 or 15 years to build the first nuclear power plant and that when all nuclear power plants will be built, our energy needs from abroad will remain unchanged, but unfortunately, like oil, uranium is not in Italy, you have to buy it from abroad, and for how many plants you can build these would cover only 20-30% the demand for energy, in about thirty years. And thirty years from now no one knows what the price of uranium, or who will check it. Word of
Rubbia, Nobel Prize for physics.
then on how to reduce the public debt, the political establishment does not say a single word realistic. In fact silent, or raves: recovering the tax evasion will adjust the public accounts.
sixteen hundred billion Euro debt and hundreds of billions of tax evasion, to be generous realistic.
Even if you obtain all the progressive, the other fifteen hundred billion? Oh well, no need to retrieve all make eight hundred, and then: the other seven hundred billion?
Who is the political class?
What needs does he do?
What benefits the nation receives?
Who's really anti-political?
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