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Berlusconi Confirms Italy Moving Toward Balanced Budget Amendment
Forbes ^
| August 5, 2011
Posted on 08/05/2011 11:50:16 AM PDT by Petrosius
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi confirmed that they would be moving toward a balance budget amendment on Friday, after rampant speculation that the European Central Bank would intervene bond markets and purchase Italian and Spanish debt in exchange for structural reforms.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amendment; balancebudget; bba; berlusconi; debtcrisis; empire; ethnic; eu; euro; italy; mafia; propaganda
Even the Italians get it!
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posted on
08/05/2011 11:50:19 AM PDT
by
Petrosius
To: Petrosius
Does this make Italians racists?
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posted on
08/05/2011 11:53:20 AM PDT
by
farmguy
To: farmguy
Does this make Italians racists?”
No, but if there is any significant reduction in “income transfers” there will be riots.
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posted on
08/05/2011 12:01:37 PM PDT
by
achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: Petrosius
I've spent a great deal of time in Italy and there will be hell to pay if any of their bennies are touched. The north supports the south and to balance their mess it will mean substantial cuts or enormous tax increases on the only productive area of Italy. Watch the streets filled with red shirted commies if this is undertaken.
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posted on
08/05/2011 12:03:50 PM PDT
by
mimaw
To: Petrosius
Let’s see them actually do it. This is not going to go over too well with the locals. I also wonder if this is a day late a dollar short. The promises the Germans are making to make this stuff possible is impossible.
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posted on
08/05/2011 12:06:42 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Lazlo in PA
Perhaps the fear of Armageddon will force them to do it.
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posted on
08/05/2011 12:09:32 PM PDT
by
Petrosius
To: Petrosius
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posted on
08/05/2011 12:21:34 PM PDT
by
Freddd
(NoPA ngineers.)
To: Petrosius
Berlusconi Confirms Italy Moving Toward Balanced Budget AmendmentDon't tell john kerry that! He'll call those Italians Nazi sympathizers, and demand the media to shut them off from exposing the vulnerable American minds to extremist ideas.
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posted on
08/05/2011 12:55:17 PM PDT
by
parisa
To: mimaw
George Washington:
"Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?"
"Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded...The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest."
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posted on
08/05/2011 2:20:02 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Plan? There ain't no plan!" --Pigkiller, "Beyond Thunderdome")
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