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...electorate, which demands labor reform and efficient economic policies. As a result, most Italians no longer trust members of the old political guard, whose main interest has been to pass laws to increase their already conspicuous benefits. When elections approach, they try to shift blame for mishandling the political agenda away from themselves, amid endless cases of corruption, immoral behavior and wasting of public resources. Rome, it's time to change. Giulio Cicconi, Teramo, Italy...
...electorate, which demands labor reform and efficient economic policies. As a result, most Italians no longer trust members of the old political guard, whose main interest has been to pass laws to increase their already conspicuous benefits. When elections approach, they try to shift blame for mishandling the political agenda away from themselves, amid endless cases of corruption, immoral behavior and wasting of public resources. Rome, it's time to change. Giulio Cicconi, TERAMO, ITALY
...having a Republican President you don't see eye-to-eye with? A. Here we're going to have a guy who has made a practice of getting things done by sitting down with Democrats. And so it looks like we're going to have a Democrat agenda regardless of who wins the presidency. I don't view myself as having to defend my President if he's in my party. That...
...Human Rights Watch says the government is undermining its reformist agenda by resorting to heavyhanded tactics of past regimes. "In its popular public campaign against corruption and abuse of political power, the government has routinely used torture to extract confessions or to gain information," the report says. "Torture has also been used to punish and intimidate peaceful critics of the government and army's role as the de facto rulers of the country." TIME could not reach the government spokesman for a comment, but officials have in the past downplayed allegations of abuse and said that anyone found guilty...
...elected, who has made a practice of getting things done, not by reaching across the aisle, but rather walking across the aisle and sitting down with the Democrats. He is who he is. And so it looks like we're going to get a Democratic agenda regardless of who wins the presidency. And so arguing against liberalism and a Democratic agenda is always going to be on my plate; it's always going to be the first thing out there regardless of who the President is. I mean, I don't view myself as having to defend my President...