Can you trust Monti, Of course not. He has  been saying for months and to the leading news paper and TV stations that he had no interests in politics, yet.... he is running for office. So when he will say that he will reduce taxes.... of course not he will increase them

Monti the incompetent want to get elected


and he has the support of the Priests  In the old days priests stated that if you voted communists you would be excommunication .. Interesting that Italy should be a sovereign state, but we are run by the Priests dn the EU

MONTI, how can you believe what he says, for months he has stated that he was not interested in politics and was not going to run for Prime Minister. But as a bye the way on twitter he announced that he is going to run

MONTI; I am not interested in politics. I till not run for Prime minister. This was at the beginning. Afte a year in power he must like all the trappings and 32,500E a month.... SO I run and if the EU and Merkel wants I will run. Well we are governed by the Eu and the IV Reich

Mario Monti changing the way Italian live

FEB 12/2/2012

Sir

I am dismayed by you. We the citizen of Italy have been made to pull our belt so tight is suffocating, yet yourself and the ministers are spending our money like it is was water, the cosmetic saving are nothing more than that cosmetic.

You want to change the way Italians live, yes you have done so, poverty is on the increase, inflation is at an all time high, purchasing power is at an all time low, unemployment at an all time high, banks are making ever increasing profits, the richer are getting richer and the poor poorer. Yes, You have changed the way Italians live, your comment is pure arrogance. Soon we will not be able to afford to eat, heat our house, pay the rent or medications. Just remember a detailed study showed we are only five days away from anarchy.

Your visit to the USA does not represent the Italian people, you are not our representative since you have not been elected you have been appointed to resolve Italy's problems, you are caretaker manager, if you want to represent Italy then get your self elected.

There are problems to be resolved in Italy, resolve them, you are paid to do this, not to gallivanting around the World, if you want to do so, ask to take some time off and pay your way. I am all for changing the electoral system, I want people know the people who represents me, I want to know who they are, I want them to respond to my communications and in the position for two terms of office, not job for life, as this would be boring, and when they finish not immediate pension, but pension at the age that normal people go to. Being a public servant should be an honour not a career, and you are there to serve and represent the constituents.

Whilst in the USA you met, behind close doors, financiers; I did not realised Soros classifies himself as a financier, I always considered him a speculator. His biographical details show this. He classifies himself also as a philanthropist, giving away a few billions does not open the Pearly Gates or make up for the damage he caused in the UK in 1992, and 1997 when he made a fortune in short selling, has also caused problems in South Asia, he was convicted of insider trading in France. Italy was not immune in 1992 from speculation Soros style. Let me ask a question, you predecessor kept friends of dubious standing, who made Italy a laughing stock, are you following on his footsteps? The circle of people you frequent have questionable pedigrees. Speculators have destroyed economies and lives, so has terrorism.

Your latest statement, that Minister are not allowed to take more than 150Euro in gifts, why are they even allowed to accept this. It should be zero tolerance, no gift however small or insignificant, a gift is a bribery.

The people in office should be above reproach. yet again we see a compromise for them. I worked for any years abroad for government institution, where zero tolerance was applied throughout.

How do you classify or quantify gift of a value of 150E, does helping a family member or a friend acquire a job within the government's infrastructure, companies, hospitals or education establishments, is it worth 150E? Meritocracy Italian style, is not what you know but where are your friends and family that can get you the place with the right contract.

Tolerance zero and vacancies publicly advertised, not by “concorso” but proper CV evaluation and interviews is the answer. This should be meritocracy and transparency, the statistics just published shows exactly this.

This does not only effects the private sector but government's jobs, a typical example, the son of Mr. Bossi. Councillors who are in places of authority with lavished salaries and benefits have been placed in positions of power by grace and favours, do all of these come under the umbrella of the 150E gifts?

You are completing the job started by Prodi, another professor full of theory but lacking practical experience. He brought in the Euro, the fallacy of the the EU, by doing this he halved the purchasing power of the Italian people, prices doubled, wages remained the same (decreased in real term) and we were sold a dud, to appease to “Shangri-la of called the EU”.

Berlusconi managed to continue the cycle of rot, by lowering the morality bar, taking Italy to the lowest common denominator, with his personal life being at the centre of judicial battles, or being photographed with scantly dressed ladies. His life style made it acceptable to conduct yourself without morals. Girls are made to think that becoming a velina is inspirational, or as he said “marry rich” when he was questioned on the subject, his TV trash made Italians think real life is “Big Brother”. Having reached the bottom of the moral barrel, 

You are finishing the project, turning Italian people into slaves of the 10% of people who owns 90% of Italy the same level the Russian or the French at the start of their Revolutions. History will repeat itself and the people who caused it will be brought to account. A lot of words little facts. Taxes and more taxes are not the solution of changing the way Italian lives, but is a way of subjugating them to appease the financiers or to simplify it, creating financial dictatorship, this gradually is being applied across the world. From the control of Greece and Italy by the EU to the Chicago futures market where speculation is on food to the financial stock markets. The same people are recycled into the places to ensure them and only them are in control.  

Thank you guys... but cometh the revolution questions will be asked

12 December 2011

On. M. Monti
Presidente Del Consiglio
Palazzo Chigi –
Piazza Colonna, 370 –
00187 Roma

Sir

I write to you (copy to the President of Italy) in English, as I am sure you can understand it, and for me it is the language of choice.

I will make a premise, I do not have any political affiliation, and in actual fact I detest politicians, especially the Italian ones, who for years have systematically worked at destroying this country to fill their pockets. I am Italian but worked and lived abroad for over 40 years, and not in the stereotypical Italian jobs. I have travelled and managed large multinational around the world.

I want to comment on the so-called manoeuvre to “save Italy and the Euro”. Firstly the fact you called a press conference on the day you announced the package at 19:00 to talk to the Italian public. You did not present your self on television till 20:00, this is impolite especially as you did not apologise for the delay, this was pure arrogance. The preamble speech was patronising and a badly delivered sermon, the sort of speech, I expect from a second rate priest and not from a Prime Minister.

I like to draw on the fact, you discussed your ideas, firstly with Merkel ad Sarkozy and the EU presidency, before presenting them to the Italian people. This proves the German and French are more important than the Italian people, and then you have the audacity of denying this to a journalist who questioned you on the matter.
Article 1 of the Italian constitution, La sovranità appartiene al popolo, che la esercita nelle forme e nei limiti della Costituzione, this mean that Italy is a sovereign state not run by the EU or France or Germany for that matter
Are we Italians with a President who has maintained some credibility for Italy through these dark years, or have we gone back to the days of the Duce who had to talk to the Fuhrer and get his approval at every move? It seems so? As for Sarkosy he is no better than Petain.  

The proposed manoeuvre, any one with the basic knowledge of math, could have done what you have proposed.  The excuse of bringing credibility to Italy, just removing your predecessor would have achieved this, then “doing something” and “not talking” would have brought the spread down and “calmed” the market until the next target was found by the speculators.

Sorting out the pensions was the only propose which made some sense, the rest of your measures are no more no less than squeezing whom have paid and always pay taxes. But this is to be expected by a group on financiers and bankers.  People who have never had to try to find the rent at the end of the month or decide to pay the electric bill or put bread on the table.

I bet you and your team has no idea what it means to run a household on less that 1,000€ a month, assuming you have a job.  I bet your team has never had to hold several jobs to get enough cash to pay a bill. Tears, by your pension ministers, are like the actress at the Oscars giving the performance of her life, not impressed, weak and feeble.

Yet again we see the people who have never contributed or contributing, the people who evade the system will continue to evade it. But of course you are taxing boats, planes, helicopters etc, assuming these are registered in Italy. Do not insult our intelligence. You have proposed any transaction above 1,000€ have to be done electronically, therefore the banks will earn even more from charges (already exorbitant, amongst the highest in Europe, and you are adding a tax on current account as well), is this the way you repay the banks?

These measures are what a banker, a professor or financier would came up, all theoretical nothing practical, but you do not have practical people in your team, you have talkers not doers. A question, your time at Yale did they not teach you anything, like keeping points concise when delivering a message You and all of your ministers said a lot of nothing, and Passera when he spoke was suffering from verbal diarrhoea.

What you have all achieved is to deliver a punch in the stomach of the Italian populace, you might have gained the confidence of the speculators but lost that of the Italians. You might be able to lecture students but you are unable to communicate to people. The aloft attitude, talking down at people in a patronising attitude, show pure arrogance and detachment from the real lives of the ordinary people. You are more in symbiance with the tax evaders than the taxpayers, the last you make them walk the Calvary whilst the first are given the red carpet treatment.

The re-introduction of the ICI under a difference guise, the tax is not a problem, always assuming every one pays for it. By this, I mean every one, especially the casts who are exempt and pontificate about equality and charity (but the church hides itself behind the IOR), the bank and insurance companies are protected as well.

In your speech there was no mention of eliminating the cast systems, example the notaries, lawyers and all those people who have their business “protected” by secular laws, which are not in line with modern business, or don’t you teach this at the Bocconi? This is protectionism, or is it because aside bankers most of the ministers are lawyers? When the tax returns are completed they show lawyers earning pittance, like dentists I seem to recollect the “studi di settore” show very interesting earnings statistics from these untouchable casts. We should look no further for tax evasion.

No mention of ensuring minister in Parliament set an example and have their wages reduced in line with general managers, they do not even deserve this for that they do. They have not been touched, their precious benefits system is maintained, but your are tinkering with the provinces, what you needed was force and courage, what you have shown is weakness and limpness.

Neither you nor your ministers have been elected or their jobs being advertised, I find extremely unprofessional. The excuse: “we have to be quick” does not hold water, irrespectively any of these people would have to give notice to their place of work, which could vary between 60 days to 6 months, consequently “not available immediately”, this begs the question; did the government “buy their contracts”? If so how much has this cost? Why or what criteria was used to recruit them? Were their friends (meritocracy Italian style), did they come from a highly recommenced source: a colleague, a “relative”, from a cast or lodge, or what ever mean? This does not show transparency.
Surely with millions of people unemployed, in Italy. I am sure, we could have found equally capable people, therefore we have to deduce, You have used your network to impose on us “your friends and acquaintances”, we have had no choice of selecting neither we have had the opportunity of seeing the selection procedure.
Your arrogance in the matter reflects the choices. Not only this is also reflected in the choice of remedies: protect the banks, insurance and financial companies. Surely the “we must be quick” “only 10 day to save Italy and the Euro”, seems to emulate only a perceived time scale not an actual one. The EU lives on Biblical time scales protracted at infinitum to justify the existence of the EU.
I read the new EU treaty with the budgetary control will only be ready by March, may be this is urgency EU style. Where days are actually months and years will translate in millennia, the system where people's talk is directly proportional to how little they do, but capable of producing mountains of paperwork.

I take up another point of “saving Italy”, Italy can be saved by the Italian people, not by “going to bed” with the EU and having diktats or treaties imposed on us. Treaties, which change the fabric of society, should and ought to be voted by the people outside and not an un-elected Presidente del Consiglio. We have been imposed the EU constitution which has far reaching ramifications outside the Italian constitution. I do not recognise the EU constitution and never will, it has been drawn up by people who I cannot refer or confer to. It has been drawn up by Eurocracts who have vested interested in imposing the control of the EU over us. George Orwell was right in his book 1984.
I am well aware of the Rome treaty but I am also aware it was also called the EEC very different proposal to the EU or federal Europe, as many Eurocrats want to call it.

I do not recognise the fact the EU will control our budgets, when we cannot control theirs, a note: the EU had an agreed budget of €120.7 billion for the year 2007 and €864.3 billion for the period 2007–2013, representing 1.10% and 1.05% of the EU-27's GNI. For producing WHAT exactly? For contributing to what precisely? For achieving what?
Italy contributes to the EU, 116 Billions Euro, and receive 70 Billion consequently a loss of 46 Billion, and this should be value for money? The sum 116 Billion Euro could balance our books or bring them close to balance, we call this economic sense? If this is the model you have used to teach economics, I pity all the students you have taught, this business model is incomprehensible, not demonstrable as working and hugely wasteful, but acceptable in the corridors of the EU as “normal” as long as the people accept or are treated like mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed manure). Just ask yourself why do we have 3 presidents in Europe, the great USA has only one, is it because we can do things better? Nonsense, like pigs with their noses in the trough.

When was the last time the EU has had a budget verified and approved by an independent body and not the European Court of Auditors? Why has the EU an ever increasing budget and are unwilling to control their expenditures, a simple example why 2 parliaments, surely this is an utter waste of time and money, but this appeased the French and the Belgian.
I could list a plethora of examples costing billions and offering very little in return, lets take another simple example, ageism in job adverts; Italy is a signatory of this, yet advert upon adverts refer minimum and maximum ages, consequently eliminating perfectly able people from the job market. Unfortunately it is easier to fine Microsoft than to ensure Italy's abidance to the law. Or is this not an enforceable law, yet in the UK this is enforced. Yet again the uselessness of the EU.

In actual fact whereas the UK abide by Human Rights, Health and Safety and the Anti Discrimination laws, Italy does not.

Italy has amongst the worst HR records, look at the Roms in Rome or the Refugee camps in Lampedusa and other sites as an example (but always nice have a photo taken, deliver a sound byte or “buy a house”). H&S Italy has one of the worst record in Europe; every day people are killed at work because the laws are not implemented. The police, the unions and management “close one eye” and for politician not a priority to solve, but every now and then with indignation a sound byte from the honourable members of the Camera or the Senate is produced.

To close this letter, next time you speak, you are not lecturing your students in class, but the Italian people. After 30 seconds your monotone delivery shows you are unable to deliver a message, inspire and motivate people, probably this is what Merkel and Sarkozy or Van Rompuy and Barroso or Draghi appreciate, boredom bordering on nausea.

I gave you the benefit of the doubt when you were imposed on us, by Napolitano, but anything was better than Berlusconi, unfortunately you have not inspired me on the contrary you have irritated me, you have not motivated me, you actually de-moralised me. The lecturing, I found patronising, we are grown up people, not a bunch of “nodding donkeys” who will follow a dangling carrot.

You have reflected your privileged upbringing by ensuring the privileged are protected and continue to be protected, whilst the ordinary people will continue to be squeezed, I advise you to read history you might find it interesting, not learning from history you will do at your peril.

Yours sincerely
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On. M. Monti
Presidente Del Consiglio
Palazzo Chigi –
Piazza Colonna, 370 –
00187 Roma

3/2/2012


Sir

On the 16th of December I wrote to you, to date I have received no response, although the letter has been signed for. No doubt you are too busy on Television, saving the Euro and confabulating with Sarkozy and Frau Merkel. In the mean time I wrote to the British PM (on the 12th of January) and within 10 days I received a response from his office and his Health Minister. This proves your arrogance and incompetence, and inefficiency of you and your staff. Do not forget we pay your wages you are employed by the Italian people (even if we have not elected you), we had no choice in your appointment consequently the least we can expect competence.

To date the changes you have proposed and passed; have made the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The model you are using is typical of a theory, which has been proven it does not work and will never work; but is what people like yourselves has taught, for years. A myopic vision, with solutions that reduce people to exasperation, and suicide (many examples have been reported in the press), companies to collapse but banks and liquidators to make huge profits.  Is profits now mentality, not the future.

Another rating agency has commented negatively on the lack of growth and the potential of your measures, consequently not just me but people who know the business. The EU eulogises you, but they are as incompetent, short-sighted and full self-importance as yourself, their vision is to ensure their job and the wasteful EU machine continues to produce nothing and devastate forests by churning out mountains of paper no one wants and is impossible to read.

Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysbourgh speech stated “…….a government of the people, by the people, for the people, …..”  Instead You have created a government of the rich, by the affluent for the wealthy or to simply put it, a government of the “have, have more and the don't have, have even less”. Yale must have taught you a lot, pity you did not learn anything, you probably thought you were above anyone else to learn anything, remember “the most important part of teaching is for  teacher to learn”, think about; taught a lot, spoke even more, learnt nothing.

The liberalisation “Monti' style” does not work, it will not bring down prices, increase competition and removes bureaucracy, on the contrary it will increase them, make shareholders even richer and the consumer poorer; produce a lower quality of services, higher prices and less investments. Shareholders wants profits, consequently this model puts profits before quality, dividends before investments, bonuses before customers and boardroom's pay before worker's pay and development.

I will give you simple example, in the UK, Aspirins (same specifications) bought at the supermarket, if not the newsagent or the petrol station cost less than one pound Sterling (1.20E) for 20, in Italy the same product costs 4.85E. Do you sincerely think opening another five thousands chemists will decrease this price? Unlikely, using your model (making more profits for the casts and the lobbies) the prices will increase or at best remain the same for a while. The banks (who are well “bedded” in your government) work on the principal that if you do not make enough money you have to increase the price of the item, and with more chemists to share the cake/“tablets”, prices will go up. Because there will be more chemists, the Italians will not buy more Aspirins! It is obvious, maybe not to you.
Your theory borders on the childish, and does not hold water. Unfortunately this idea comes from so called experts who learned from the same “universities”, taught the same prehistoric business models  by the same professors who's cattedra is “a job for life”. These ideas may have worked fifty years ago when the “earth was (business) round” but do not work now that “the earth is flat”, I suggest you read the book by the homonymous title.

Steve Jobs stated, just before he died “The opportunities are left for those who keep looking, don’t give up and think outside the box.”  Unfortunately for a banker the box is the safe and for a politician the chair, and neither will do anything different or something that may jeopardise their status quo, because none of you are leaders, you are just a flock of sheep, following the same teachings and the same theories. This is the difference and this is why Apple is a leading company managed by leaders and visionaries and is growing, whilst Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal etc are going bust, lead by incompetent, inept and arrogant people. Therefore which method works? Yours? Unlikely, but yours is the accepted is the one the Bilderberg Group and the David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission. the cast and the lodges of the super-rich, those people who wants to run the world. By keeping the people, looking for work, dangling a few EU carrots in front of their noses or letting them  starve so they will not rebel; remember what happen to Marie Antoinette after she said “let them eat cakes”, the guillotine was put into use in France, and rebalanced the power, history has the knack of repeating itself, you do not learn from it at your peril.

In the time you have been “running Italy”, just over 70 days, the only increases have been: more  taxes,  higher fuel prices, increase in pensionable age and, quite interestingly,  an increase in interviews; which go on at nausea from yourself and your Ministers. You have not yet realised that you can talk but you cannot communicate. Your predecessor loved being on television and having his name in print, but you beat him hands down.
I thought we had some laws in Italy, “par condicio” which protected the viewer from the constant bombardment of politicians of as single party, and required a balanced approach, you have commandeered the media for your self gratification and vanity, when you taught the Bocconi you con only master and bore to death 50 students, but now the world is your oyster, Sir Jogn Acton said “ Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely “ , it has not taken you long to reach this. Your interviews are as stimulating as having your teeth pulled without anaesthetic and as motivating as eating overcooked unsalted pasta.

People were hoping for something different with this imposed government, yet same reheated soup. People are no longer listening, people have had enough of endless talks and useless words. Maybe you like the sound of your voice. People want action, not words, people want to get to the of the month with their salaries not more taxes, young people want jobs and opportunities no feeble excuse  or EU promises, your promises are like a mirage in the desert ever shifting and never there.

Have  you listen to one of your broadcasts? Have you noticed how boring your are, how annoying, how tiring and un-inspirational your words are! You speak a lot but say very little, but typical of Italian politicians a lot of hot air but little concrete, if you all stopped talking we would resolve  global warming. I have heard the interview from the EU meeting on 30th of January, I was hoping for some glimmer of hope some concrete action, nothing, absolutely nothing. A good wine as it ages gets better, a bad wine turns into vinegar, and you are not even good vinegar.

You treat the Italian populace with contempt and disrespect, do not forget we are not your students (sfigati) in one of your classes. This arrogance was highlighted by Martone’ speech, which shows discourtesy and haughtiness to the young students and their parents, who keep on trying to provide a future for them. The deputy minister’s speech, defining students, who do not achieve a degree by 28, as sfigati, borders on contempt. Your predecessor used to speak before engaging brain, nothing changes. Your silence showed approval (do not refer back to Mrs Thatcher to whom the phrase was attributed – Martone cannot even come up with something original to say, has to plagiarise a speech, I wonder if he plagiarised his thesis,  1000s of you will never be a match for the Iron Lady). All of you arrived at university from an elite class, it helps to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Martone should be fired, it does not represent me and definitely NOT the young Italian people. He is a disgrace to the title of deputy minister.

The only comment I could agree with you is  the “job is not for life” but I am sure everyone knows that, and there are  no illusions about it, aside from the prehistoric unions. Unfortunately you have made the comment without understanding the real problem, try getting a loan without a contract at “tempo inderteminato” try buying a house, the banks will laugh at you. Since you are one of the people who had the “the easy life” you do not appreciate or understand this, ask you colleague Passera if his bank gave any help to people if they did not have a “job for life”, before you speak get your facts right it will help you by not making you look like a fool.

You can only change this if you change the philosophy of working practices which in Italy are inadequate, from ageism to sexism to meritocracy. The first contravenes the EU convention of which Italy is a participant and a signatory, but never implemented, it came into effect in 2008. Yet companies in Italy still set job adverts with age as a discriminatory factor, even the local unemployment centre (when I questioned this point I was told to mind my own business).
Sexism is well entranced in the Italian macho culture where women are treated like objects and second class citizens, are continuously at the end of  sexual innuendos and career progression is achieved, in most cases, only if you are prepared to “cooperate” with your superiors. Try this in the UK or, God forbids, in the USA and see what happens. Meritocracy Italian style is based not on what you know, your working experience, but who you know and if you are in the “right” political circles. I could indulge further on this point, but just looking at Regional and Provincial councillors and board of directors in large organization and you have the picture. Your predecessor was a master on the subject, he appointed people in his image or who he owed favours. Please do not say that for industry the best people are in the best jobs, do not make me laugh, just look at Pirelli, someone who knows every thing about tyres is in charge? Or RAI, and their board of directors.

Removing the “job for life” culture, you have to create the environment to do so, and this is not done by increasing taxes, or liberalisation or removing article 18. You have to create the motivation the vision the structure to do so. To date nothing you have said or done proposes this, the 80B Euro carrot, is just a illusion a trick by the “magic circle” called the EU.

The media circus around the Cortina, Rome and Milan's raids by the Guardia di Finanza, are just what they were, a circus for the media, to “show you are doing something” “the man of action” a sort of cartoon character that charges around Italy catching tax dodgers.
The GdF has always carried raids out, but they did them quietly, professionally and intelligently. Obviously your PR tips off the media so they get the scoop and make you look good.
You remind me more and more of T. Blair and his sidekick G. Brown. Both rewrote the boundaries of incompetence, arrogance and ineptitude. You are following their teachings. The tax evader continues and evade taxes uncontrolled, unpunished and we, the tax payers, continue to finance this mal-administration, constructed and managed by people who do not deserve the title, respect and salary they command. All is supported by Equitalia who is allowed to operate like the Mafia, maybe I am wrong it is the financial arm of the Mafia their interest rates and cash collection methods are the same.

All you have to do is to read about the “studi di settore”. A jeweller's tax returns would have them eating at the local soup kitchen, a notary earns less than a manager, it shows  lawyers in Italy are the lowest paid in the World, a teacher is paid more than a dentist, a dustman is paid as much as surgeon. Do you sincerely think we are all stupid? What does it take to do a simple check. Italy is one of the biggest importer of German's high power vehicles, surely not all “auto blu” (72,000!!!), which you were supposedly to rein in, but like the cars you have started using Italy's Airforce One on your visit to Tripoli, consequently the Palazzo Chigi's illness of power madness hand as infected you. You remind of the Captain of the Concordia, as he shouted, “get off the ship, follow me” and your privileged cast followed you. Unfortunately they forgot the passengers who are left to fend for themselves. A typical example of do as I say not as I do. Cutting the benefits of the ministers by less than 2,000€ is laughable and insulting. Cutting ministers, local administrators and their benefits should have been the first action of your government removing some laws is not even the tip of the iceberg, is just window dressing. Lead by example.

You and your ministers reflect Italian's management, incapable of valuing people as assets but quite capable of distinguishing between an Audi A7 and a Mercedes 550 or a BMW SUV. An inefficient management who expects and demands the staff remain in the office till late, being in the office does not mean you work, it means you are in the office. An ineffective and de-motivational management who command total loyalty by using dictatorial means (the Damocles' sword “i can find 100 of you”), better suited to China and the old Communist’s Russia. Management is supported by unions’ leaders who are stagnating in the 18th century and are more interested ensuring their offices/chairs are protected instead of protecting the workforce. Union leaders whose idea of health and safety is having enough to eat for themselves in their staff canteen and not helmets and protective shoes or rules are respected in the workplace. Just ask your self, why does Italy has a safety record which is in line to a 3rd world country, have you done anything about it?  NO, neither have your predecessors and  unlikely to ever do anything. Just think, every day people leave home in the morning go to work, and every day 3 of them will not come back home.

It is easier to increase taxes to people who already pay them than to increase jobs. You tax the first home but forget to include the houses owned by one of the most powerful casts: the church which has a real estate portfolio in Rome that is the envy of the world. When Jesus "I will build my church" did not mean build Vatican S.p.a., I am sure a humble place of worship where every one is equals and pays equal dues. The banks and insurance companies also seem to be exempt by this taxation, but a quick walk around Turin and we can see Passera's ex-empire.
People to acquire their first home, young and old, have paid a sea of taxes, including the useless cost of the notary. When you compare this with other country, do not forget to mention, for example, that to buy and sell a property in the UK you do not need the services of the precious cast called the notai, you can even do it your self, Italian people do not know this.

Unfortunately is not only the taxes and fuel have gone up but rail fares by 20%, and you want people to be more mobile? By making it impossible for people to travel to work, or tourists to visit Italy, aside the fact that regional trains (see attached complaint to Trenitalia) are worthy of a third world country. The Freccie Rosse are for rich who can afford them. Is this the way to get people to move?

Politicians and service providers treat the commuters worst than animals, most of us have no other choice, consequently a captive audience, like the people who always pay taxes. The trains are more akin to the carriages used to deport Jews to the concentration camps and the Italian soldiers to the Russian front (to protect the German retreat at the Don - interesting passage of history by power crazy people). You and your ministers are totally detached from these realities, we are made to suffer day after day, month after month year after year. Incompetent politicians and management, with ridiculous EU has better laws for the transport of animals than Italy has for the transport of passengers.

You want people to be mobile, leave Palermo for a city in the north, but do you realise how much it cost to live in Bologna, Milan or Turin? Do you realise you need six months deposit on an apartment? Again, worthless waffle by a worthless minister. Look up the cost of rents in Milan, on the other hand you should know you have enough properties.  How many Italian companies are willing to help you relocated, NONE. You just talk for the sake of talking, do you have a brain? If so try engaging it, you might find it a uplifting experience.-

The economic model used by You and approved by your ministers, borders on the ridiculous, increasing transport cost will only increase prices to the consumer, therefore inflation, are these the teaching of Yale and the Boccconi?  I am glad I did not attend either, I still have a brain and a practical one at that, I can still see “the king new clothes”.

As I am sure you will not answer this letter, because you are full of your self-importance, remember a man wrapped up in his self importance makes a small parcel.

Yours sincerely