Pensioners are losing money.

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THE ASSETS TEST IS WHERE PENSIONERS ARE LOSING MONEY

Here we are writng about what happened a few years ago that is etill hurting today. The new assets ttest that started the first of January 2017 is still hurting today, so, lots of pensioners are lamenting the way that the government has treated them. Because they are losing most of their pension. 

   

Welcome to our article, Assets and pension cuts. 

Because of the assets test , today pensioners are still losing money. 

Dear readers, this article was written a few years ago, but what happened then is still affecting us today, so, let us talk about it. The disastrous budget that the treasurer Joe Hockey delivered on the 13^th of May 2014, is still affecting us today. Depending on what sort of pensioner you have, these changes will affect you in different ways. So, there are pensioners that their pension does not change, some pensioners that will be losing part of their pension, and some will lose it altogether. So, if the pensioners are upset, because they are losing money, they are right to be upset. Because Joe Hockey is an idiot. 

Anyhow, now let us write an example, which we have started in our last article, about Mr. and Mrs. Day, who own two houses, they live in one house and rent the other one. So, let us talk about, how much pension Mr. and Mrs. Day received before, then how much they receive now, and then compare this with other pensioner, whether they are being discriminated. Anyhow, we are setting this case, in a way that is easy to understand, so, all figures are well rounded figure, and therefore they have not been worked out mathematically.

So, Mr. and Mrs. Day have about $580,000 worth of assets beside their residence.

Before the 1^st January 2017 change, they received about $450.00 per fortnight each.

After the 1^st January change, they will receive about $350.00 per fortnight each;

So, they will be losing about $100.00 per fortnight each. Now because they have problems with renting the house. When the house is not rented, it is hard to live on $350.00 per fortnight. One must keep in mind, that a single pensioner that has no assets, receives $873.90 per fortnight, and even they complain about living a modest decent life.

Anyhow, let us talk about owning and renting a house, because Joe Hockey budget, is a budget aimed at ruining the small property investor. So, these small investors must decide whether it is worth to keep things as they are, or they need to change a few things, to live their life at the same level of other pensioners. 

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People owning and renting a house are losing money. 

People believe that owning and renting a house is the way to go. If you talk to any real-estate agent, they will tell you that it is profitable to own a rental house. But we must ask ourselves if it is profitable all the time, or not. In this case owning a second house is not the best thing to have, which is the case of Mr. and Mrs. Day.

As we have said, today most house owners find it hard to rent their houses, because there are too many vacancies here in Brisbane. So, Mr. and Mrs. Day, had to rent their house for $400.00 per week, which is a low rent if one considers the house value. Anyhow, they hope that the tenants will pay the rent on time and will not damage the house while they are living there. They have worked out that as things are, after paying all the bills, they can average in a year about $200.00 a week net rent. 

After going over all this rental stuff, we must start to think whether there is something wrong, with the way’s things have been set up for Mr. and Mrs. Day. So, we should ask. Did Mr. and Mrs. Day make a mistake when they invested in this rental property? Because they were thinking that by having a property for rent, they could be better off when they retied.

But now that the assets-test is changed they are shocked, because their second house investment is more a disaster than a benefit. In facts, they are worse off, because if they had only the house they are living in, they would have received a lot more pension, than what they are earning from their investment. So, they could have more time for themselves, instead of trying to run their property for rent.

Today we can only ask, what sort of government is this? They tell the people to save their money for their old age, so that they can live a better life. But when the people reach their old age, they turn around, change the laws, and take away that money from you. But this is not all that we need to say; you see, they make laws that takes away money from the people on the government pensions, but they don’t make laws to cut their own pensions that are huge compared to the rest of us. You see, the means test, and the assets-test does not apply to their politician pensions, so, they can own huge properties or anything else, they can earn anything, and they still will receive their full government pensions and other benefits. So, there is a law for the public and a different law for the politicians.

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What some people could do? 

When the laws change, and those properties that you have worked hard for, they do not earn what you expected them to earn. You must start thinking what you can do with what you have.

In the case of Mr. and Mrs. Day, they are losing so much money that they must start thinking about a different set up, so that they can receive more pension than they are receiving now. 

As we have said, Mr. and Mrs. Day, are not on the best terms, they are living together, because divorces and changes are costly, but because of what has happened to their pension, they may have to divorce now. Because, now that their pension has gone down, they have lost that financial balance, which in a way kept them together. So, they will be forced to divorce, because, if they are divorced, they will receive a single pension each. But that is not all, they will own a house each, and live in their own houses, so, they have no more assets, they will not earn any money, so, they don’t have a mean-test or assets-test to go through to receive their pension. therefore, they will receive the full pension each. Now let us see what difference it will make.

Today they receive about $350.00 per fortnight each.

If they are divorced and live in their own houses, they will receive, $873.90 each per fortnight. Which is a lot more than what they receive today, the only question left here is will they do it?

Anybody that is losing that much money will certainly do it, to make sure, let us look at those figures again, but this time let us see, how much money they are losing in a year, if we work both pensions together:

Now, they would receive about $700.00 per fortnight, in a year they are receiving $18,200.00.

If they divorce, they will receive 873.90 each per fortnight, which will be $22,721.4 each.

Or 45,442.8 per year. So, they are losing $27,242.8 government pension in a year.

Now, let us talk about other pensioners owning properties.

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Pensioners owing properties are hurt. 

The pensioners that own a rental property today are in a lot of trouble, because everything has turned against them. The government changes the assets-test and cuts the pensions down. Then the properties cannot be rented unless they rent cheap, and, they cannot sell their properties easily, because there are too many rental properties up for sale; and when a business makes not enough money, it is hard to sell.

But there is more, when their rental property is sold, it is subject to the gain tax, here again the government is robbing what is rightfully yours. They are robbing you, because if you want to buy another property of about the same value somewhere else, you must pay the gain tax, which is based on the difference in price, when you bought the property the first time. If you have bought the property a long time ago, for sure there will be a lot of gain tax. Now, I want to point out, if you need to buy another property of the same value, for personal reasons, why you must pay this gain tax, you really haven’t gained anything at all, because you still have a property of the same value. But the government does not accept this explanation, they work on the difference of the price when you bought it the first time.

Now let us look at some other real-estate problems. Some of you may think that I am exaggerating, because everybody things that the properties are always going up. But I tell you what, the boom on the property market for me is already ended, but people are not aware of it yet. When I drive around the street of Brisbane, there are too many signs of places for rent and for sale, when a few years ago, there were none. So, everybody that owns real estate should brace themselves now, for the rough ride ahead, this will also affect the pensioners that happen to own properties.

Anyhow, we want to conclude this article now, by saying that the pensioners are having a hard time, and are losing money. 

I believe that I have said enough in this article. See you in our next article, where we are going to talk about some world problems, in World News, and My Views. 

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Australian pensioners alarmed.

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All politicians are strange people, they promise you a lot but deliver very little, but the year that Tony Abbot became the 28th prime minister of Australia was one of the worst budgets that Australia has seen for a long time. Anyhow, Tony Abbot is a delightful character, he could mix politics with some funny things, which is sometimes helpful. But he was not good enough to see that the budget that Joe Hocky was brining up was going to be a disaster for the pensioners. And it was a disaster then and even today the Australian pensioners are affected adversely.  

Welcome to our article, Australian pensioners alarmed. 

Dear readers, this is an event that started a few years ago, but even today the Australian pensioners are affected adversely. Anyhow, the Australian pensioners were alarmed, because their pensions can be cut, and some of them may even lose the government pension.

But let us start from the beginning and talk about the man that brought in this disaster, that the Australian pensioners did not deserve. Anyhow, this disastrous budget was delivered from the then treasurer Joe Hockey, the 13th of May 2014, today we are still finding how terrible this budget was. Because some Australian pensioners have lost some pension payments. But first let us see how the expert have described this budget at that time. So, here I quote:

The grim budget faced widespread criticism and was overwhelmingly rejected by the Australian public as reflected in all opinion polls after its release. Opposition to the "unfair" budget measures came from the opposition and crossbench, pensioners, economists, the union movement, students and welfare, community and disability groups with some taking to the streets in protest. The budget included changes which were contrary to pre-election commitments and promises made by the Liberals in opposition. Critics argue that every one of the following pre-election commitments made by Tony Abbott were broken in the first budget: "No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS." Echos of the "dead and buried" Fightback! policy package from the 1993 election occurred with proposals to defer unemployment benefits for six months for under 30s and the removal of GP bulk billing. Most proposals have since been shelved, dumped, or modified.

End of quote.

Anyhow, Joe Hockey, has moved out of the Australian politics, but the politician have given him a good job, with a good pay. Meanwhile the Australian pensioners are hurt from those changes to the assets test that he proposed. Here we want to ask, if he wanted to save money to the government by cutting the pension, why he didn’t propose to cut his own pay and the other politician pay, at least the same amount that the pensioner will lose, just to be fair for everybody, since they receive a ridiculous high pay for their services. We think that to cut the politician pay is only fair, since we are all in the same boat of Australia. Now, let us talk about the Australian pensioners because they are alarmed and worried.

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 Pensioner are alarmed.     

Dear readers, today we are still feeling the effect of what happened years ago, to see what I mean, I am going to repeat how I felt then. The Australian pensioners are alarmed, because they feel that the Australian government is ripping them off. They feel ripped off because the changes that are taking place from the first of January 2017 are unfair to them. We believe that they are right to feel alarmed, worried, and upset, because some of them will be forced to live with less than the minimum government pension.

Therefore, we will talk about the Australian pensions since most of us are interested about that. I am not an expert in politics and government matters, however, when we use our common sense and things do not work out, we want to have our say. So, let us talk about the Australian politics and what affects us directly. So, the Australian Pensions are changing, from the first of January 2017. This change is hurting people that rely on the Australian government pension, and it will continue to hurt in the future.

Here we are talking about retirees, that do not have enough funds; so, they rely on the Australian government pension, for a full pension or part pension. Most of the people that will be affected from this change, are the part pension retirees; some of them will receive less pension, and some of them will lose the government pension altogether, because of the changed in the assets-test.

Now, what hurts most these pensioners that are losing pension money, is that the people that have no assets, because they have never worked hard and save money, they will still receive the full pension from the government, but those that have worked hard, payed their tax and saved their money for rainy days, hoping to have extra cash when they retied will have the pension reduced and completely cut off. We believe that this is not right, because it is the people that have worked hard and saved their money, are the people that have paid most taxes in the past.

Anyhow, here are some figures that have been published on the net.

About 330,000 Australians will find their pension cut from the 1^st of January- 90,000 will be losing it entirely, because of the tighter assets test. I believe that it is not fair, because it is already hard for pensioners to live a modest life peacefully.

So, if the federal government loses next election, because of what they have done, they deserve to lose. Anyhow, let us look at how people can react to these pensions cut. Here we are going to write about some imaginary case, about what some people can do, because they feel that they are being discriminated and punished for being good honest citizen.

Anyhow, here we are going to talk about a case or two, as an example. You see, before this pension was cut, this couple had accepted that the government would give them only a part pension, so, they tried to live with that, but now that pension is being cut, they don’t know what to do, because it is going to be hard for them to live a decent modest life.

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Other pensioners’ concerns.  

Here we cannot use real names, so, the name that appear are not their real names.

Mr. John Day and Mrs. Ann Day are two pensioners, they have received a part pension for years, as they are both over 70 years old, so, they are aged pensioners.

Mr. and Mrs. Day own two houses, they both live in the same house, even though they are not on the best terms with each other, and it is said that they will end up divorced soon. Anyhow, they are still living under the same roof as husband and wife, so, they receive their pension as a couple, which is less than if they had the pension paid as single people, so, they start thinking if they are doing the right thing, or they should do other things to improve their financial position. So, let us compare what is happening to their pension.

As we have said, Mr. and Mrs. Day have two houses, one they live in and another one they rent, so, the house they rent is calculated as an asset, the value of the house is set at 520,000 dollars, add to that a few more things they have, they have 550,000 dollars’ assets, so, their pension is calculated on these assets, as it was before they told me that they were getting from the government about 450 per fortnight each, from the 1^st of January, they are going to get about 350 dollars per fortnight each. This is not enough to live with even if you try hard to save money.

The house they rent, today it is rented at 400 dollars per week, because they could not rent it any higher, now, that is not net money, because they must pay all the fixed expenses, like the rates, the water and other urban utilities, the insurance, the maintenance. But that is not all, because sometimes the house is vacant for several weeks until a new tenant is found. So, there are times when in a year, they can average from the house rent, about 200 dollars per week.

Here one needs to ask, where and how the government people work out this new law, about the assets and how much you earn. I believe that it should be worked on a real possibility that you can earn at least as much money as the full pension before they cut the pension, but they do not, and it is going to hurt pensioners today, and in the future. 

Anyhow, at this point of time I believe that this article is becoming too long, so, the facts and figure about this example will be discussed in our next article, Assets and pension cuts. 

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See you soon.

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Cold weather and the homeless.

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This earthquake has happened a few years ago, but even today they have not rebuilt all the fallen houses, so, the earthquake victims are lamenting about it. The rebuilding progress has been rather slow, and sometimes we think that it will never be completely carried out, there are several reasons, some of which we will be talking hereunder. 

Welcome to our article, The Italian homeless. 

Cold weather and the homeless don’t go well together. Today in Italy there are homeless people, because of the earthquake and the overseas refugees, they have problems to find accommodations. Anyhow, this year in Italy it is going to be a cold winter, so, let us think about the homeless and their problems. 

Today on Facebook, I have found photos from my Italian friends, which show all that snow that has fallen over there, and how cold it is these days. They are having a cold winter this year, while some of them don’t mind it, because they have warm homes, so, they can enjoy the spectacle that the snow has brought with it. But there are people that are adversely affected, so, they wish that is wasn’t so cold.

Anyhow, I had to tell my Facebook friends that while it was cold over there, here in Brisbane is very hot, today while I am writing this article, it is 34 degrees centigrade in the shade and it might go up higher. So, it looks like that the weather this year the 2017 is going to be extreme, since what is happening is extreme.

Therefore, while I turn the fan on to keep cool, I am thinking about the effects that this weather brings, and the difference that exist in the world. Anyhow, because I hate the cold, I end up thinking that the hot weather here in Australia is okay. And then, I think how bad it is for those people that don’t have a warm home to go to, because they have lost their house from the earthquake a few months ago, you see, every time that I watch the Italian news, they talk about the little progress they have made rebuilding since the earthquake. Well they have had some progress, but there is so much to do; by comparison the progress they have achieved is not that much.

We can say, that the people that have suffered from the Italian earthquake are unlucky, not only they have lost some relative and friends, they have also lost their houses from the earthquake, and now, this year is going to be very cold, which makes everything a lot worse. Therefore, I am feeling sorry for them, because they are suffering, through no fault of their own. Anyhow, In this blog I am repeating what has happened in the past, but even today they have the same problem, so, let us talk about it. 

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The homeless situation.  

Let us talk about the earthquake first. At the beginning the government had promised help, so, one was led to believe that in a few months everything would be back to normal. But it is not happening that way, because in a few days it will be five months that the initial earthquake struck, and as we have seen in the news the progress is not much. We know that the people affected have been given other accommodation right from the start, and there is some improvement that goes on day to day the best way they can. But there are no mentions of real rebuilding being started, we guess it is a big job and it will take time to rebuild those damaged buildings.

Anyhow, when we hear the news, where the people say that they feel abandoned, we start believing that something is wrong, so, we ask ourselves what the reasons are. Well, we soon realize that in Italy there are more problems than the politicians can solve, especially now that they are not happy with the present government, so, they want an election to be held soon, which can happen, if they work it out how to do it.

But that is not all, because there are also the overseas refugees that make the accommodation problem worse, since they want and need accommodations too. Here I want to point out, that since in Italy there are all these problems with the native people, we wish that the refugees don’t come, because there is no way to accommodate them, but there is nobody telling them the bad situation. So, they keep arriving in Italy uninvited, and worse still they pretend to be looked after from the Italian government, when they have not contributed anything to it.

We hope that the Italian government can cope with these homeless problems. But above all we hope that they can solve the accommodations for those Italian that have lost their house from the earthquake first.

In my view, if the overseas refugees are left behind, they can learn what they refuse to admit. Anyhow, because they are not Italians and they have not contributed anything to the Italian government, we can say that they have no rights to ask the Italian government to do anything for them, therefore, they are beggars, begging the Italian people and government to help them, but beggars don’t have the right to choose. So, they get what they get, and they should be happy about receiving what their benefactor can afford, or they should go back to where they have come from.

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Earthquake and cold weather continue.  

This article is becoming more like a diary, about what has happened in Italy than an article. You see, yesterday I published this article; where I was lamenting the way the earthquake and homeless people in Italy are being treated, and after doing that I hoped for the best for their sake, since it seemed to me that the authorities could have done better, so, I thought that I had said enough.

But suddenly this morning on the Italian news, those unlucky people are getting more of the same, we can only feel sorry for them. Because they are in a terrible situation as it is already. There were lots of earthquakes during the night, some of the stronger ones have reached magnitude 5, and on top of that it is cold and snowing with no end in sight. Most places are isolated, even though the authorities are doing what they can to reach them. In most cases, the authorities don’t know what is happening, because there is no power, the phone lines don’t work and there is no water supply because of the cold. 

Therefore, we can only hope that this cold weather stops soon, so, the authorities can catch up with what is strictly necessary. After that they can go back to what is necessary to do, so that, those people affected from the earthquake can return to live a normal life. I hope that this is not just a wishful thinking on my part, and everything will improve soon.

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The situation in Italy worsens. 

Anyhow, the situation instead of getting better, it has become worse. In fact, it is so bad that I believe, some people may start thinking that this could be the beginning of the end of the world, I am not blaming them, if they think that. Because the tragedy that has just happened is beyond compression, an entire Hotel has been destroyed from an avalanche of snow, which seems an impossible thing to happen, but then it has happened.

The Hotel Rigopiano was a four stars Hotel, set about 1200 meter high, on the mountains called Gran Sasso in Abruzzo, which are the highest mountain in central Italy, the highest pick reaches 2912 metres, today this Hotel has been destroyed from this avalanche, and most of the people that were there, are thought to have perished, now we know that there are only two survivors, and about three bodies have been found dead, it is still early to say more about the rest of the people that were there. They say that there were about thirty people at the Hotel, when this tragic event happened. Some expert says, that the Hotel was built in a safe position, so, what has happened is something beyond comprehension. 

You see, it seems to me that there are a few extreme natural events, which are taking place all at the same time. So much snow that it is not possible to move anywhere, the extreme cold, the earthquake, that may have damaged the Hotel and trigged the avalanche and perhaps a land slide. All these things put together have contributed to the destruction of the Hotel Rigopiano. Anyhow, some people have arrived over there to help the survivors, if they can find any survivors. 

Another tragedy has happened. 

This is shocking, I cannot believe this, looking at what is happening in Italy today, it makes you cry, those poor people of central Italy are in a bad state and suffering. They deserve better, as they have done nothing wrong, to deserve these disasters one after the other. First an earthquake that destroyed many buildings and killed near three hundred people. Since then there have been hundreds or perhaps thousands of other earthquakes, some of which have damaged and destroyed more buildings.

Then last week an avalanche destroyed Hotel Rigopiano, where up to today they have found only nine people alive, twenty-five dead and four missing presumed dead, so, twenty-nine people may have perished. The authorities with their rescue teams are doing what they can. The place is so dangerous that they are digging by hand, they continue to hope to find some more people alive, until they find the last body, but as the time goes by, it becomes unlikely that anyone could still be alive, under all that snow that has become compacted and ice, the they are going to dig them up whether they are alive or dead. Now, today a rescue helicopter has crashed on the mountain, killing another six people.

The news of the disaster of Hotel Rigopiano and the helicopter crash, have made us forget for a few days the plight of the homeless, but they are still there, so, there is a lot more to do, perhaps it is going to take years, before everything comes back to normal. 

I believe that disasters as intense as this are rare, so, we should feel sorry for those people involved. I am going to stop writing now these sorry events, because they even make me feel sad. But I am publishing this article just to have a record, of what I have witnessed in my life.

Anyhow, I am going to stop for a while to talk about the Italian problems. Because I want to talk about other important things that affect me in Australia, we will come back to talk about this issue later. Because in our next article, will be about Australia in our article, Australian pensioners alarmed. 

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See you soon.

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What happened in Italy in 2017

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Every country have some problems, but sometimes I believe that Italy has more problems than other countries, because of its geographic position, you see, Italy is a European country in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, because of this position Italy gets a lot of refugees coming in, then they have the earthquake refugees to look after, and they have an unstable government. But somehow they seem to manage, So, let us see what is happening now. 

 

Welcome to our article, What is happening in Italy now. 

Dear readers, I am interested about what is happening in Italy, even though I am far away from Italy. Anyhow, I want to say, how we Italians see these political things. Perhaps I could have ignored them, since personally they cannot affect me, but I want to write this article about how I see what is happening there, it is like writing a bit of history, your own way. 

Anyhow, as we have said in one of our article, this election about the Italian constitution has taken place and the result was negative, therefore, there will not be any change to the constitution. But what other change this election may trigger, we don’t know. So, we should be concerned about what can happen.

Perhaps, now they must form a new government, since the prime minister has resigned, therefore, there must be other changes as well. Now if that is going to be the case, with a new government in charge, we may ask; what about those promises that this present government has given to the Italian refugees, that are homeless, because of the earthquake. So, we wonder if those promises are going to be kept?

Anyhow, today while I am writing this article, we know that the Italian premier ‘Mateo Renzi’ has resigned and few days later a new premier was elected. So, now it is the turn of this new premier, ‘Paolo Gentiloni’. This new PM is calmer compared to Mateo Renzi, now because the Italian politics today are a bit rough, we wonder if his calm personality is going to help him or disadvantage him. I suppose only time will tell, because these are very difficult times that we have in Italy these days.

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This is what is happening.  

Now that Paolo Gentiloni has become PM, it seems that Italy has solved the first obstacle, because they have elected a new premier, but there are lots of problems over there, because of the overseas refugees, the earthquake refugees and the terrorists. You see, the terrorist that carried out the Berlin attack has ended up in Italy, now even though he has been killed by the Italian police, while he was trying to kill two policemen with his gun, this matter may not end there. Anyhow, he got killed and that is the end of him. But there is a question to be asked, why he has gone to Italy after he killed 12 people and wounded many others in Berlin?

One cannot help thinking that he has friends in Italy, which have helped hiding him somewhere. There is also the possibility that his friends can carry out some violent acts against the Italians. You see, these people don’t have any respect for humanity, they only think about how to punish others. If we want to look for a reason why they carry out these violent acts, we see many things that don’t make sense to us of the western world. You see, we of the western world help them when they are down, we take them in our own country and feed them, we go to help them and pull them out of the sea before they drown, on humanitarian grounds, and what we get from them for our help? After all the benefit that we have given them; they turn around and kill us.

Here I want to make my own personal comparison; about what I think they are like. To me they are living in the past, they behave like mediaeval people, as far as I can see, because what is happening in the Middle East now, it is mediaeval behavior. This makes me think, that they behave like the people of a thousand years ago, when they would arm themselves and try to conquest anything in their ways. They don’t want to see, that we are living in the third millennium, counting from the coming of our lord Jesus Christ. Anyhow, we better stop talking about them, because it will not help much. Now let us look at what is happening right now in Italy.

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Let us look at what could be done.  

Now let us look at the problems that they have in Italy, after the new PM has been elected. In our opinion it is very likely that everything remains the same, just as it was before and the priority remain the same, in the hope that these problems can be solved soon. You see, the government over there, needs to give better temporary shelter to the earthquake victims, because it is hard to live is substandard accommodation when it is very cold, and in winter times it can be very cold over there, after fixing the temporary accommodations and other things, they need to restart rebuilding all the houses and other building that have been damaged from the earthquake, and this may take even years to fix everything, but let us hope that they can do it in a reasonable time.

Then they have the overseas refugees, that they provide with whatever they need, not only feed them, but also give them accommodations, now, this may arise a conflict of interest, because there are a lot of Italians that don’t have a house, so, how can the Italian government give houses to the overseas refugees, when there are Italians that don’t have one?

All this becomes more complicated, when we think of the terrorist attacks. You see, how a government can help these refugees, when they turn around and kill you? It is completely out of place to help those ungrateful refugees. But then on humanitarian grounds we should help them, even if some of them don’t deserve any help.

Now that we have gone over the main problems that the Italian government needs to address, let us hope that the new prime minister Paolo Gentiloni, can guide them in such a way, that most of these problems are solved.

Anyhow, I believe that this article is becoming too long, so, I am going to write another article about, the Italian history and other things as they happen. So, see you in our next article, The Italian homeless. 

To see more click on this link,  What is happening in Italy now. 

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