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He wants treaties, free trade agreements, Eurozone membership, and other major issues decided by national referenda. He deplores NATO. Let Italians decide if they want out. They get nothing by staying in.
Unilaterally default on public debt, he urges. Argentina, Iceland and other countries did it successfully. Nationalize Italy's banks. Guarantee 1,000 euros a month "citizenship" income. Reduce or eliminate poverty by doing so.
He wants Italian sovereignty restored. He wants it freed from Eurozone straightjacket rules. They impose financial tyranny. Back to the lire, he suggests. Let people decide.
Uniting 17 dissimilar countries requires surrendering monetary and fiscal control. An unelected central power has it. It force-feeds policy ruthlessly.
Debt entrapment and banker occupation follow. Troika power decides everything. The EU, ECB and IMF have final say.
Rules empower bankers. They require neoliberal harshness, robbing poor Peter to pay rich Paul, lowering living standards, sacking public workers, and selling off state assets at fire sale prices.
Italian voters spoke. They had enough. Non piu (no more), they said. They want populism for the people. Is Grillo up to the challenge?
Questions remain unanswered. He's neither right wing or left, he says. Hopefully he represents refreshing change. He welcomes people of all political persuasions. He risks ending up with more than he can handle.
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