Berlusconi's "miracle" plan

[ddstory]

Berlusconi has practically ceased ruling in Italy for some time. Now he's merely an actor, a poseur. It's what he does best. But now - surprise, surprise! - he's come up with a giant "reform plan". Do bear with me, though. The devil is in the details. For instance, while under that plan the police in a number of regions will remain without money

Comments

[htpcl]

> But what really enrages the Italians is the huge disconnect between politicians and people.

Sounds familiar.

[allhatnocattle]

very familiar

[allhatnocattle]

When do the people storm the gates?

[ddstory]

When/if the plan gets implemented, I guess.

[allhatnocattle]

That's Italians for sure. Always showing up late.

[luzribeiro]

I have a better proposal.

[sealwhiskers]

That country has never ceased to have a mob problem, and some of it goes pretty far up...

[htpcl]

If only it was that country alone.

[sealwhiskers]

oh, of course it's not, but Italy has its own special flavor of issues!

[the_rukh]

Italy is a good example of what Machiavelli said when he said that when you overthrow a country you need to exterminate the family line. Have a bunch of overthrows of all those city states and pretty soon you have all sorts of ex noble assholes who think they can do what they want.

[underlankers]

Eh, this guy's a clown and the only reason he's held onto his office as long as he had is that the Italian political system is horrifically dysfunctional at its best. He's pathetic, but unfortunately so are most of his would-be opponents and Silvio the Slob only has to better than his opponents....