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Politics / Re: Question about Italian politics
« on: October 30, 2011, 08:58:51 am »<is under the impression that generally just agencies/big corporations run politics & the rest are basically puppets.That's a sure thing
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<is under the impression that generally just agencies/big corporations run politics & the rest are basically puppets.That's a sure thing
I third this.In short:I second this.
OH HELL YEAH!
Thank you, for actually coming up with this.
Sorry I probably explained myself in a wrong way, I wasn't making any comparison or saying that U.S. are going into bankrupt, I just wanted to say that raising the debt from 6k billions to 14k billions in 5 years is insane. Of course they can raise the limit or do whatever they want, this doesn't change the insanity of the spending, that's allAs far as I know, U.S. can't have a debt bigger than $14.294 billions (law restriction) and the 2nd August politicians must find a way to raise this limit and change the law. If they don't, U.S. will have to cut a lot of costs (usually against citizens). Bankrupt isn't any close, but "smoking" $8.000 billions in 5 years is really unbelievable.That's a self-imposed problem. "Finding a way" isn't difficult. Congress could repeal the debt limit at any time - not just raise it, but get rid of it completely. The only thing holding it up is that one party has decided to take the economy hostage. It's a political problem, not a financial problem. Investors are buying US Treasury bonds at negative real interest rates for the short-term and medium-term. That's not what markets do when they feel that a country has too much debt.
As far as I know, U.S. can't have a debt bigger than $14.294 billions (law restriction) and the 2nd August politicians must find a way to raise this limit and change the law. If they don't, U.S. will have to cut a lot of costs (usually against citizens). Bankrupt isn't any close, but "smoking" $8.000 billions in 5 years is really unbelievable.P.S: U.S.A. don't look too good either, you got 14.000 billions of debt and you too are almost in bankrupt thanks to all the wars around the globe. (debt was 6.000 billions in 2006 if I recall it right)US debt in itself is not a problem.
Disclaimer: I am an American, and the large majority of my news about Italy comes from British sources -- the BBC News website, and The Economist. Please forgive my questions if they are ignorant.Nothing to forgive, I always appreciate who tries to get informations about the world with some intelligence instead (or in addition) of reading a newspaper.
My question, for anyone who knows more about Italian politics than I do: How does Silvio Berlusconi stay in office?Silvio Berlusconi just minds his own business and aim to a dictatorship, that's my opinion of course. But the laws he makes and the ones which he would love to make are clear enough. Since the 7th July 2011 the governement can shutdown any website they want without any judge to say a word. Just to say one of these controversial laws. Only Birmany, Iran and China got this kind of law, as far as I know.
Do most Italians like him? If they don't, are the other choices so bad that he looks good by comparison?PdL (Berlusconi's party) at the latest elections got 18% of about 60% of voters, this means he really got just a 11%. So he represents just the 11% of italians, but thanks to the retarded laws he gets much more power.
Does his business holdings allow him to influence what the media says about him?Yes, absolutely. In a catastrophic way, because italians are now down to a retarded state. But there are many italians who still can use their heads and go find the news on the internet instead of dieing in front of a television.
And the British media seem to think that he talks about Communists a lot. Does he?Yes, he stereotyped any persons against him into a communist. So every italian who support Berlusconi just refer to anyone else as a communist. That's a bad and false word to define the opposition. But the opposition is retarded in the same way as Berlusconi is, because they just keep saying that everything wrong in Italy is Berlusconi's fault. So on the newspapers, on the televisions, everyone is talking about Berlusconi vs communists, which is really stupid.