You say that as if Italians had the option to elect a government that wouldn’t be doing this to them. But it’s a rigged game, much as it is in Canada and the US. The Eurozone run by the cartel of European private banks, much like the US Federal Reserve is just the cartel of US private banks. It’s structurally neoliberal, austere, and anti-Keynesian, because deficit spending above nominal amounts is forbidden.
You say that as if Italians had the option to elect a government that wouldn’t be doing this to them. But it’s a rigged game, much as it is in Canada and the US. The Eurozone run by the cartel of European private banks, much like the US Federal Reserve is just the cartel of US private banks. It’s structurally neoliberal, austere, and anti-Keynesian, because deficit spending above nominal amounts is forbidden.