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January 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
His comments appear to have touched a raw nerve at a time when swingeing cuts
to education and other sectors are being introduced by the technocrat
government of Mario Monti, the prime minister, in an attempt to tackle
Italy’s 1.9 trillion euro national debt.
One student union called for his resignation, saying that grants were so
inadequate that 40 per cent of undergraduates had to take part-time work to
put themselves through college.
The country’s biggest union, the CGIL, said the high rate of delayed
graduation was a result of years of underinvestment in tertiary education by
successive governments.
Politicians also weighed into the debate, with Massimiliano Fedriga of the
Northern League saying: “Martone has offended students who have to work
in order to support themselves – it is for this reason that they are not
able to graduate earlier.” Economists say Italy risks creating a “lost
generation” of young people who are stymied by closed-shop work
practices, a lack of meritocracy and companies’ unwillingness to give them
full-time contracts.
Nearly a third of Italians aged between 15 and 29 are classified as NEET – Not
in Education, Employment or Training.
Stung by the criticism, the minister later moderated his opinions but insisted
that the point he was making was a fair one.
“Those students who come from families with difficult situations and have
to take two jobs, and still manage to graduate, are fantastic, they are
heroes.
“But I was talking about the others – there’s a lot who don’t work and
live with their parents and take 10 years to graduate.
“I may have used the wrong words, but I touched on a painful truth –
there are two million young people in Italy who neither work nor study.”
That had to change if the country was to dig its way out of the economic
doldrums and have a future, he said.
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