Posted on 11/23/2022 7:24:42 AM PST by aquila48
Italians who refuse job offers will lose their social benefits, the country’s hard-Right government announced, arguing that the country’s welfare system is too often abused.
Giorgia Meloni, Italy's new prime minister, is to clamp down on a poverty relief scheme called the citizens’ income, arguing that it encourages idleness and has been widely abused, including by convicted mafia criminals.
The initiative was introduced in 2019 by the Five Star Movement, a populist party that was part of a previous government but is now in opposition.
More than 3.5 million Italians receive the €780 a month payment, with more than 2.3 million living in the struggling south of the country, including Sicily and Sardinia.
Announcing her first budget, Ms Meloni said she would pare back the scheme, saying that it had reduced incentives for people to find jobs and that those able to work should no longer be eligible for the handout.
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Should be that way here. Dont work? Dont eat!
Why any country ever does otherwise simple astounds me.
Why does the idiot paper call her “hard right”? She is right where she should be.
Mama Mia!
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Note how we never see 'hard-Left' used to describe a government.
Pls see my #6.
She is hard right....as opposed to being like them, hard wrong.
She’s leading...not merely following the voters (or as Obama calls it “leading from behind”). She’s doing what she believes is best for her country.
It is starting to look, to me like not only is Giorgia Meloni a keeper, but at long long last the Italian people decided enough is enough.
I wonder how long the Roman Swamp will allow her to remain in office or will they simply go the American way with a coup.
To Communists/Socialists anyone not what they are is far right.
So, is that an upgrade by the Telegraph? From “far right” to “HARD right”? Rock on Ms Meloni.
She made them an offer they can’t refuse. Finally!
Has she cancelled all future elections yet? I was promised that she was a “threat to democracy”!
...the country’s hard-Right government announced
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Because a government that thinks you should take a job when offered one instead of leaching off government welfare is “hard right”.
Omerta.
“... arguing that it encourages idleness and has been widely abused, including by convicted mafia criminals.”
So I guess the mafia criminals will have to stop being idle and go back to robbing everyone.
Thessalonians 2 3:10 shows us that the Holy Spirit led Apostle Paul to write that those who are unwilling to work do not eat.
“Should be that way here. Dont work? Dont eat!”
And suddenly there would be no jobs Americans wouldn’t do.
It’d be a miracle!
that’s the way welfare used to work here... what happen?
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