MARIO MONTI, OR THE ONE WHO WANTS A FEW MILLION ITALIANS. I ask, for a friend, can the appointment as Senator for Life be removed?

Invitation to read the editorial published today in Il Corriere by Senator a Vita Mario Monti. In this article, the Senator for life presents his conditions for supporting the possible future “Conte III” government.

If you want to read it, you can find this link , but we recommend a strong anti-emetic before reading it. Journalism or literature have rarely presented passages of cynicism, of social indifference, indeed of profound cruelty and falsehood, such as the one written by Mario Monti, so much so that Shakespeare's famous "Richard III" appears as the speech of a moderate and feel-good ruler.

The whole article is a hymn to austerity, to the need, to no longer owe debt, to the fact that you have to "tighten your belt" with the usual nice tones of the Milanese gentleman who, from the top of his loft, cannot even throw brioches to the hungry, because it lives so high that pigeons would kill it. But some passages deserve to be mentioned, like the following:

“To restore” in debt? The latest allocation to restaurateurs amounted to ONLY 645 million euros with the Christmas Decree, among other things with 190 million moved to 2021. The total figure is approximately 2.9 million for the whole of 2020. Restaurateurs who had a 90% loss in turnover in December received "Refreshments" of the order of 2000 euros, not even enough to pay rents and bills. Meanwhile, the government has allocated 4.5 billion in 2021 to credit card cashback, but the problem is the refreshments.

The one indicated by the Senator for life is not only a social horror, but also a sensational and unjustified political and economic error:

• Do not restore and "Encourage closure or restructuring" means paying a couple of million unemployment or cash supplements for months, if not years. Or the design of the liberal Monti is to create yet another new reserve army of desperate and hungry people to throw on the European labor market to contain costs. The usual dirty talk of wage deflation;
• Making hundreds of thousands of companies “Restructure”, ie fail, as Monti would like is a colossal economic fool. In this way, billions in productive investments are destroyed (in fact, until 2020 they were efficient and open activities), permanently lowering the level of potential GDP. After that, investments of the same size would be needed to return to the previous potential GDP level. What Monti preaches is a sort of bombing campaign, like those of World War II, which would pass and destroy everything, only to be reborn with purifying fire. A frankly insane speech;
• The activities currently in difficulty did not go into crisis due to their own faults, but due to the application of laws by the state. these activities could easily appeal to a judge to ask, pursuant to art. 2046 of the Italian Civil Code, not the banal "Refreshment", but the much more substantial "Indemnity" also recognized in the case of expropriations for public utility. Would the outlay for the state be dozens of times higher than the four so far allocated, or does Monti think he is himself superior to the law?

Why publish this article now? Probably Monti "S'offre", as Cottarelli has already done, for some position within the possible Conte III government. From a certain point of view, we hope that the Foggia player will embark him on his increasingly pirate vessel to be able to obtain the miracle of a government so unjust and unpopular that it truly risks overthrowing it by revolutionary means.

The content of the article is so unacceptable to anyone with even the appearance of a social conscience that there is really a wish to NOT receive the Senator's trust. Indeed, from the point of view of its content, I wonder for what merits it covers its current political position. I ask for a restaurateur friend and another small business owner, do you know if this undeserved privilege can be revoked?

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