Wednesday 16 April 2008

What Those Who Had the Chance to Vote Voted For

Lower taxes; smaller and less intrusive governance ; local power for local interests; cultural hegemony of the receiving people; the social wage to contributors; an end to redistribution of wealth between the poor and poorer by the ruling party; weaker powers and lesser union within Europe.

What they got: racialism at every level of governance, the impoverishment of the weakest, the richest excluded from taxation, the ending of meritocratic achievement in any state-provided employment and the reinstitution of 'raccomandazione' and the 'figli di Papa', lower taxes, less intrusive governance, and almost certainly a shift in European Union monetary policy to accommodate Mediterranean indebtedness.

They may yet find there is a very high price to pay in social peace.

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