Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: NEW YORK TIMES OGGI 16 aprile 2008

 
Editorial
Mr. Berlusconi’s Comeback
Published: April 16, 2008
The master showman of Italian politics, Silvio Berlusconi, is back for a
third term as prime minister. His victory owes little to his past,
shockingly meager achievements in office. At a time when Italy is enveloped
in economic and political gloom, he won with promises of a painless path to
renewed prosperity.
With the remnants of the departing center-left coalition offering austerity
and sobriety and Mr. Berlusconi proposing tax cuts and good times, it was
really no contest. The billionaire owner of media and sports businesses also
got a major boost from his unsettling partnership with the populist,
immigrant-bashing Northern League.
Mr. Berlusconi’s flamboyant lifestyle and outsized personality would likely
not play well on this side of the Atlantic. Still, aspects of the campaign
echoed American politics in striking — and in some cases embarrassing —
ways. The Northern League produced a shameful poster showing a sad-looking
Native American in a feathered headdress and these words of warning: “They
were not able to regulate immigration — now they live on reservations —
think about them.” Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome who was the
main center-left opponent, did less well trying to emulate Barack Obama’s
appeal with the rough Italian equivalent of: “Yes, we can.”
Italy has real problems, which all parties did their best to avoid
addressing. These include faltering competitiveness, unsustainable fiscal
deficits, broken governmental services (Naples is choking on uncollected
garbage), corruption and a bureaucracy that wastes unbelievable amounts of
everyone’s time and money. Italians generally work as hard as their
neighbors but end up with significantly smaller financial rewards.
What the country desperately needs is a sustained attack on tax evasion,
unjustified public subsidies, over-regulation and a deeply ingrained culture
of political and business corruption. That may be a lot to ask from a man
whose private business dealings have repeatedly drawn prosecutors’ attention
but no convictions.
Mr. Berlusconi’s first two terms were disappointingly weak on reform. Italy
needs him to do better this time.
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 neighbors but end up with significantly smaller financial rewards.
E questo la dice lunga su quanto anche il tuo amato Prodi sia stimato
all'estero visto che su temi come corruzione, reati, finanza allegra e
pessimi servizi, il NYT non vede differenze tra i vari partiti.
Per inciso avevi letto l'editoriale in cui il NYT tifava debolmente
per Veltroni nonostante i risultati sciagurati del governo Prodi ?
andrea

 andrea
No, questo la dice lunga su quanto poco capisci! L'operato di 18 mesi di
PRODi è stato più e più volte lodato, anzi MAGNIFICATO, dal NY Times.
Ovviamente il governo Prodi ha fatto miracoli syui conti pubblici, sul
welfare, in Libano, all'Onu e ottenendo l'EXPO grazie a Bonino e Dalema, ma
non ha fatto in tempo ad arrivare al momento della redistribuzione dei soldi
presi dagli evasori.
Ora il puttaniere, fingendosi pensoso come pensa debba essere uno statista
coi capelli trapianttati, il lifting e i tacchi, dice ch edovrà prendere
MISURE IMPOPOLARI! ahahahaah!!!! Vuole copiare PRODI?
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