Nadat ek aan ene Varkspek uitgewys het hoe uitgediend en rassisties sy denke is oor SA en Italia spring nog 'n koejawel, genaamd Jan Rap, op die ossewa en laai waai met die volgende:
Varkspek is heeltemal reg, hoe korrup jy ookal mag dink die Italianers mag wees, produseer hulle uitmuntende goed, klere, vliegtuie, motors, masjiene. Hulle nywerheidsontwerp, kuns, musiek en argitektuur is byna weergaloos vir eeue al. Buitendien, die korrupsie wat daar mag wees is onaanvaarbaar volgens BLANKE (jou woord en jou hoofletters) standaarde maar volgens SA-standaarde is hulle blaamloos, witter as sneeu.
Nou lees ek egter hier:
“The situation in Italy is not easy. There are too many centers of power where everybody blocks everything,” Renzo Rosso, founder of Diesel Jeans said recently, campaigning to bolster enthusiasm for change in the country. “Our infrastructure isn't working and we've got corruption all over.”
Change will come, but it doesn’t guarantee improvement. Italy has been without an elected leader since November 2011, when Silvio Berlusconi resigned.
Italy may conjure up postcard perfect images of beauty, art, and culture, but it is also a country in which nearly 2 million children are struggling to survive.
Every morning, hundreds of thousands of children in Italy’s poorest regions wake up hungry. Some have never used a computer because the schools can’t afford them in the classrooms. Many don’t go to school at all, or when they do they drop out, hoping to find scarce jobs. While their parents try to eke out a living, infants are left alone with young children as caregivers because of a lack of public day care. A growing number of children work as laborers on farms. Others are pushed into the sex trade to help support their families. Thousands live without basic amenities like hot water, regular meals, or simple health care—all in picturesque Italy.
Italy allocates only 4.4 percent of its total social expenditures on social services for children, meaning only 1.1 percent of the total GDP goes to investing in services like public child care that would allow more parents to work.
The “Mezzogiorno,” as the poorest regions of the deep south are known, is often overlooked because of the high rate of organized crime that has infiltrated both the public-works sector and local government entities. One in two minors in Italy lives in what is considered “absolute poverty,” a condition under which basic needs are not met. According to the UNICEF report, that means families are able to provide only one adequate meal every two days and they often cannot provide necessary medical treatment, either because they cannot access public-health services due to lack of funds for transportation, or they cannot buy simple over-the-counter medicines like aspirin or even Band-Aids for their children.
Says Valerio Neri, director of Save the Children in Italy. “There is no more tuberculosis or war to threaten the children, but minors today have to deal with poverty, the scarcity of services, polluted cities, and unhealthy lifestyles.
Dan sê Jan Rap nogals ewe lagwekkend:
Hier by ons funksioneer meer as die helfte van die dorpsrade nie meer nie - die riool het gaan staan want die pompe is nie onderhou nie, die paaie en strate is vuil ... Watervoorsiening is moer toe en as daar water is, is dit bruin.
The austerity crisis has taken a dire toll on Italy’s poor southern regions, where families have taken to scavenging and scraping by without gas or electricity.
In Greece and southern Italy, the economic pains are more severe because many people were living in poor conditions even before the 2009 crisis began. In Basilicata and Calabria, hundreds of families are living in houses where electricity has been cut off. Children don’t go to school because no one can afford to put gas in the cars. Families where no one is working have taken to raising animals to provide milk and eggs to survive, according to the SVIMEZ analysis.
Dan weet mens nie of Jannie ernstig is waar hy kwaak:
Italianers gooi ook nie treine wat laat is met klippe of steek hulle aan die brand nie. Hulle versper ook nie strate met klippe en brandende buitebande nie en gooi nie verbygaande motors dan met klippe nie. Hulle steel ook nie so gereeld koperkabels dat die treindienste lamgelê word nie.
Huh!! Donner ou, kyk of lees jy dannie oorsese nuus nie?
Dan sou jy seer sekerlik weet dat daar reusagtige stakings, onluste, klipgooiery, brandstekery en wie weet wat nog REGOOR die EU aan die gebeur is, nie net in Italia nie!!
Agge nee wat, as jy nie eens die basiese stukkies feite van wat aangaan onder die kniegies kan kry nie, gaan doen dan eerder weer jou Standard Drie, dalk sal jy leer lees en feite van wensdenkery kan onderskei ... of beter nog, trek sommer selwers Italia toe!
Vat jou maatjie Varkspek saam. Julle tweetjies sal lieflik die Dolce Vita kan leef, kom ek leer julle hoe:
A big reason Italy has been able to live "La Dolce Vita" for as long as it has over the years has been its ability to sell debt – lots of it. Italy is home to the fourth-largest debt market in the world with $1.8 trillion euros outstanding. The nation's shrinking economic power has meant that it has had to borrow more and more money to keep its sweet life going. Italy's debt compared to its GDP currently stands at an alarming 120%, the second-highest in Europe after Greece at 140%.
O gaats vergeet ek amper, julle lewe seker reeds die Dolce Vita sommer hierso in SA seker ... so al op die Taljaanse model af van skuldmaak en leef buite julle vermoëns, maar as julle dit nie meer kan uithou nie, Italia roep, gaan terug na die bankrot EU toe, wie staan in julle pad??
Vir wat wag julle?
Maak 50 miljoen mense bly en gaan wees 'n meulsteen om julle Blanke boeties se nekke daar asb ... soeka!
Francois Williams