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Honestly - how long more can Lombardy help the South. The freaking dogs on the street know about the Cassa Del Mezzogiorno. My father emigrated from Naples in t
by joeminichino 9y ago
Honestly - how long more can Lombardy help the South. The freaking dogs on the street know about the Cassa Del Mezzogiorno. My father emigrated from Naples in the 60s and found a job in Lombardy, where he met my (Lombard) mother. I emigrated from Lombardy to Ireland. Not advocating emigration at all costs, but certainly governments of the last 50 years have advocated centralization and unfair redistribution of wealth to the detriment and frustration of the North. The South of Italy has so much potential (between UNESCO/POIs sites and wonderful landscape, tourism alone would get everybody employed year round), how it remained poor all these years is a mystery that goes beyond reductive punts on organized crime.
- bl4ckm0r3 9y agoorganised crime is everywhere in italy, there is a long going conversation to understand the "south situation" in italy, it has historical roots, lack of investments and political corruption on a national level that put investments into the hands of the local mafias.
- joeminichino 9y agoFalcone (a man who knew a thing or 50 about organized crime) said that once you have taken money out of the hands of organized crime they are dead. Freeze accounts, suspend influx, cut the pipe. Without subventions to the south, the Mafia has nowhere to pick that money up.
- noisymemories 9y agoAnd this is the reason why the referendum will go basically nowhere, by the way.
- joeminichino 9y agocan you elaborate?
- noisymemories 9y agoSorry for the late answer. What I mean is, If this is going to actually affect the money flow from North Italy to... basically the black hole which is the political and criminal ecosystem of Southern politics, well - Let's just say they got quite convincing "arguments" to make sure Zaia & Co. backtrack on their positions. And I'm not even talking about by violent means.
- noisymemories 9y agoIt's not reductive at all. It's pretty much confirmed that most of the "Cassa del Mezzogiorno" money for Sicily went straight to Cosa Nostra.