From 2000 to 2011, Italy contributed 145.11 billion euros to EU budgets. On the other hand, it benefited from EU funds amounting to 120.29 billion. We have given this Europe 25 billion euros: 50 thousand billion lire. Many other sums could be added, one above all the very recent contribution of 15 billion as an advance for the 125 billion we owe to the state-saving fund: they flowed into a fund that invested in the securities of triple A countries: Germany. Denmark, Sweden, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Finland and Holland.
We are financing the stinky countries that look Hong Kong Phone Number Data at Italy as a bathhouse run by beggars. Other than saving ourselves: we are saving them. An infinite tax that we pay to have the card of the exclusive Mitteleuropa club, which we proudly show off while they leave us outside the door to park their BMWs. We are like those provincials who get into debt to go on holiday in the most expensive places and believe they are VIPs because they spend their evenings at the Casino, while croupiers and snobbish customers enjoy watching them lose even their underwear.
We will never be like them. When we have tried to make a loud voice in the living rooms of Europe that counts, historically we have always taken them, which today translates into a continuous haemorrhage of wealth, of the tithes we pay, and what's more in total contempt. We must get it into our heads to start exploiting our great talents again: genius, unpredictability, the ability to give our best precisely when we experience the worst. We are like a 700 horsepower sports car kept in the pits by a driver who continues to roar in neutral, because he prefers messing with the other teams to the race. Courage, gentlemen, what are we afraid of? Let's put the damn thing in gear.