Berlu lost the election

Originally Posted by Giovanni

it was BBC international though

They tried all the best to put Berlusconi in shame, interviewing baised characters without any balancer between the different opinions, talking a lot of rubbish and manipulating facts or hiding other truly crucial which were shot on every Italian tv in the same moment, like the stalemate at the Senate (just mentioned) which meant the possible draw of elections.

These journalists were once again proved wrong by the half of Italian people who don't accept any patronising suggestion or manipulation over its own business and refuse proudly any break into its own sovereignty from biased medias

which is trustable internet source to read about elections, prodi etc... ??

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

I think the best thing that Prodi could do for Italy is realign the country with France and Germany and not the United States. However, I think Gio is right...Prodi will not last more than two years.

I think our club will be run the way it always has been in the past twenty years or so.

Thoughts?

Prodi has already started to pucker the US's a$$. Believe me this shocked me when it came from the horse's mouth! As far as realignment with France and Germany... on Iraq that is understandable and pragmatic. As far as employment... boy oh boy, that's a problem!

You know I've been to Italy many times. What impressed me was the zeal for private ownership and business. Unfortunately the business acumen was not really at its best. Everything was CASH, CASH, CASH... no credit card or traveller's checks. It came to me like a revelation! The socialist way for so many years drains them of the fruits of hard work in ownership. With Cash only there really is no paper trail to declare anything as taxable. After years of dealing with a heavily taxed system I cant blame any Italian business insisting on cash only. It has made good and honest owners look shady when their really not and the shady one's hard to sniff out in the crowd. I fondly recall when seeking the advice of a very friendly old Italian man on what to do and see, "HIDE YOUR MONEY!" was the first lesson he taught me. Sucks when you're a customer but I dont blame any of these honest mom & pop resturants, stores and hotel accomodation businesses for doing this. With very friendly and hard working shop/business owners abound in such a beautiful country, the socialist way serves them in the worse way. They deserve better.

I take a look at list of both coalitions and I was disguisted... how the hell there could be a communist party participating nowadays in democratic elections!? and it is not the only one... there are two of them

I can not conceive why this movement is not prohibited till now... can anyone recall what the sh!te they have done to our world...

Thank's to God, Berlusca lost the election!!!

Originally Posted by rae

I take a look at list of both coalitions and I was disguisted... how the hell there could be a communist party participating nowadays in democratic elections!? and it is not the only one... there are two of them

I can not conceive why this movement is not prohibited till now... can anyone recall what the sh!te they have done to our world...

rae, we all know what your country has gone through, with communism n everything, and im sorry to hear that, but there are people here who could be pro-communist and it could be offending for them... so please show some respect


communism may have failed, but to be honest i dont find capitalism any better!

Originally Posted by mk18

but there are people here who could be pro-communist and it could be offending for them... so please show some respect

so you could say that respect should be shown to nazis too... and to all kind of criminals...

Originally Posted by mk18

communism may have failed, but to be honest i dont find capitalism any better!

I could only laugh of your statment, nothin else

Btw although the votes are being recounted, it's fair Prodi governs Italy. They set they electoral champaign on the supposed Berlusconi's failure.
I think now they will found out what govern a country means after 11/9. They will face a probable crisis with Iran and they will cope with loads of eternal italian problems, problems that Berlusconi tried to solve, at least in part with a flexible law for the employment for ex. (very different from the French situation although the BBC didn't bother to make a deep comparison)

With a tight prevalence in one of the two chambers this will be a dramatic task , and being these issues so important any big decision or reform will mean a possible crisis for the government.