I’ll tell you about the ten-year war on the elderly
"Not from over seventy but even from over eighty, almost 82 years old, I state that I am in a so-called conflict of interest when I write about those (not only Toti) who want to scrap the elderly"
Not when I was over seventy but even when I was over eighty, almost 82 years old, I state that I am in a so-called conflict of interest, again writing about the idea born of the governor of Liguria Giovanni Toti to confine the elderly in a precautionary way, as with the detention that is called precisely in this way awaiting the developments of the investigation. In this case we would have to wait in the closets of the house – as a newspaper certainly not hostile to the center-right in which Toti militates, that is Libero , observed with sarcasm – for the second and maybe even the third and who knows how many others of Covid to pass, without ending up with cupboard in a coffin.
It is not the first time, however, that I write in conflict of interest. And it could also be the last, since I am hospitalized for a heart bypass surgery, having a blocked coronary artery and having the surgeon stuck in trying to save my life.
This story of the elderly to be watched closely, either to prolong their life but almost in segregation, so that they do not bother their grandchildren or receive any, or to shorten it and contribute to the final solution to the problem of pension spending, is on my zebedee, he would say the elderly – also him – Vittorio Feltri, less measured than me in language and even in facial expressions.
It is at least thirty years – by chance from the end of the so-called First Republic onwards, when the desire for scrapping began to grow, much more than it had in the 68s of the last century – that the elderly are bothering. If they continue to work, they steal jobs, indeed the future, from young people. If they stopped working and retired on the regular expiry of the laws in force, some of which objectively stupid, but still modifiable, they stole the future of young people by receiving privileged treatments, with the wage system, compared to the less advantageous of the contributory. So majorities of all colors have chased each other in attempts to cut pensions with taxes disguised as solidarity contributions, even at the cost of saving a few hundred million euros a year overall and reducing tax revenues much more. We are not talking about the reductions imposed on that system of assistance or social aid that the elderly with non-starvation pensions have been able to guarantee for years to their children and grandchildren, making up for the State always short of money for waste and the like.
Now the first, second and other wave or edition Covid has also arrived to be told by a little more than fifty years old brought into politics by a generous employer of his that if you are elderly, and moreover "non-productive", you must disappear from circulation.
Personally, I accept lessons in altruism and the like from a sociologist – she is also elderly – like Chiara Saraceno, of whom I have read an interview with Repubblica twice, sharing the arguments, even those used against Toti. I accept it from an even older sociologist and statistician like Giuseppe De Rita. And maybe I try to convince the surgeon to spare himself the trouble and let me die in anesthesia, without me noticing. But from Toti, from this alleged politician and even "governor" of an important region like Liguria, no. I do not accept lessons, advice, proposals and so on. I only ask him to lower the crest and apologize, but clearly, not with ambiguous phrases as he did, to all the elders he has offended, even surpassing Beppe Grillo's recent proposal to deprive them of the right to vote.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-la-guerra-decennale-agli-anziani/ on Tue, 03 Nov 2020 05:36:27 +0000.