Renato Brunetta

thumb|Brunetta in 2018 Renato Brunetta (born 15 May, 1950 in Venice) is an Italian economist and politician. From February 2021 is serving as Minister of Public Administration in the Draghi government. Quotes 2002 If anyone else doesn't, I apologize to Marina Biagi and her children for the irresponsible words spoken by those who should simply remain silent. Maroni contro Scajola: "Smentisca o si scusi", la Repubblica, Roma, 30 June 2002. 2003 I want to be a slacker, but I can't. Renato Brunetta: Vorrei fare il fannullone, ma non ci riesco, Panorama, 4 July 2008. Growing to 0% means that it is growing like last year which was a good year, with growth at 1.8%. From an interview by Corrado Augias, Ministero Pubblica Amministrazione, 1 October 2008. I'm better than Padre Pio. Implying having healing powers, referring to the halving of state employees' absences due to illness after the issuance of the Brunetta Decree – Legislative Decree n°. 112 of 25 June 2008. la Repubblica, 3 October 2008, p. 33. The country is with me, but a piece of the country isn't, and I've come to terms with it: the country of rents and the powers that be, and that of slackers, who often belong to the left. Corriere della sera, 16 November 2008. 2009 Public work has long been used as a social safety net, especially by women who went out shopping during working hours. Agi News, 2 April 2009. The PA [public administration] is too important to be left to politics and trade unions alone. [...] We are trying to bring public administration to excellence, which has a frightening cost: 300 billion a year, compared to services judged on average not to be positive by citizens. [The "Bad Politics" and the "Bad Union" that produced the "dumb politics" of] All to All: The exact opposite of reward. [...] I want public administration to produce 50% more and give citizens a voice. Il Sole 24 Ore, 12 May 2009. You have to send the police out into the streets. But it's not easy to do: you can't send the "bread" policeman out into the street who did nothing but pass it, because they eat it in the street. Corriere della sera, 27 May 2009. No desire to offend anyone, but just a joking remark to say that those who for so many years have been bureaucrats behind desks, it is difficult to be Starsky and Hutch-style policemen on the street. [...] I apologize to the very good policemen with bellies, no offense to them, but only the observation that an excess of bureaucratic commitment by law enforcement has often distorted the main mission of the security system, which is to stand on the streets for the safety of citizens. Less bureaucracy, among law enforcement and more qualification of public order. la Repubblica, 28 May 2009. The Mafia must be dealt with in a secular and not ideological manner. If we make an ideological symbol of the Mafia, with its culture, its history and so on, we risk making it an ideology and as such, in the end, it produces professionals of that ideology precisely in the terms in which Sciascia spoke of it, professionals of the anti-Mafia. Corriere della sera, 28 May 2009. In Italy, poverty has decreased, it seems paradoxical and countercurrent, but these are the statistics. Feel free to make noise but these are the statistics. la Repubblica, 9 June 2009. In Italy, there is a parasitic culture that thrives on public resources and spits sentences against its own country, and this is what we see in those days at the Venice Film Festival. [...] directors who have received 30/40 million euros in funding, grossing 3-4 thousand euros throughout their lives. These same noble authors, looking suffering, explain to you that this Italy sucks... Only they never worked to have a better Italy. Chiara Maffioletti, Brunetta: «registi parassiti». E il cinema si ribella, Corriere della sera, 12 September 2009. While we were managing the crisis we did not see the opposition and this is a problem for democracy. We've seen the elites, or self-styled elites, busy knocking the government down. It's always the same old ones: those of publishing, financial, bureaucratic, film, and cultural revenues, which fought the government guilty of having begun to hit the annuity madhouses. [...] The poor left would have been born with other purposes and instead they are conditioned by a shitty elite. [...] They are preparing a coup d'état that is being responded to openly by talking to the Italians, building L'Aquila, with a grand plan for Southern Italy. The true unity of Italy is to resolve the southern question. [...] We have a great opportunity, our mission will be an extraordinary mission against bad rent, against parasites wherever they may be: in fake culture, in fake parasitic ideological cinematography, in fake unions, in bad banks, in bad finance, in bad newspapers. [...] I propose a liberation struggle for the comrades of the good left: free yourselves from this deadly embrace of this bad finance, this bad union, these bad publishing groups. [...] This self-styled elite in this year of great crisis has only thought about how to bring down a government that was coincidentally starting to hit the very homes of the annuity. Repubblica, 19 September 2009. Those who are outside the institutions and are engaging in extra-institutional opposition should be pointed out to the people, because they are preparing a real coup d'état. [...] Redo your political battle, your value battle, if you are capable of it. Leave this shitty elite to their devious fate. I say this to the political left, to the decent one. To the one for evil, go and die killed. Repubblica.it, 19 September 2009. I speak as a lay priest-eater, we must collaborate with the Church in areas where the Church does better than the State. But we will not collaborate with those who play the massacre, making political ideology in the cassock. Repubblica, 19 September 2009. [Referring to the polls according to which he was «the most loved by Italians».] I, poor, not handsome and not rich, kicked the ass of the monido and I am the Lorella Cuccarini of the Berlusconi government. L'ultimo show del ministro troppo rapido nei proclami, Corriere della sera, 20 September 2009. 2010 Starting from Article 1 [of the Italian Constitution]: establishing that Italy is a democratic Republic founded on work means absolutely nothing. Corriere della sera, 2 January 2010. Until I went to live alone it was my mother who made my bed in the morning. I was ashamed of this. «Bamboccioni? Ci vuole una legge che obblighi i figli ad uscire di casa a 18 anni», Corriere della sera, 17 January 2010. I would legally force children to leave the house at 18. «Bamboccioni? Ci vuole una legge che obblighi i figli ad uscire di casa a 18 anni», Corriere della sera, 17 January 2010. We have a Pdl so full of imperfections, so full of problems, of problems. But, pass me the oxymoron, it's a wonderful piece of junk. Brunetta: "Amo questa meravigliosa schifezza" , il Giornale, 11 October 2010. Given that the Prime Minister is always right, the PDL certainly has growth problems because it has mixed together several. But it's better to be a big party with many different cultures than the dead gora like some opposition party. Brunetta: "Amo questa meravigliosa schifezza" , il Giornale, 11 October 2010. The Pdl is the great house that, together with the League, has been changing Italy since ’94. Brunetta: "Amo questa meravigliosa schifezza" , il Giornale, 11 October 2010. 2011 [Addressing the protesters of the «Public Administration Precarious Network».] You are the worst part of Italy. Corriere della sera, 14 June 2011. I have it in for that "very Roman" caste of privileged people. [...] Rome is full of this fabric of people and I worry more about the precarious people in call centers, the precarious people in the private sector who are unable to have a permanent contract and have no word [...] and I am working to provide a solution to their problems, while I worry less about the many organized people, very often in Rome, who come with telechambers and banners to gain media visibility. [...] I saw the newspapers and the funniest thing was the interview with the "leader" of that movement of precarious workers who came to challenge me or ask me questions: she has been earning 1,800 euros a month for 5 years, with fixed-term contracts at an agency of the Ministry of Labor. It doesn't seem very precarious to me. [...] There is so much hypocrisy in this world and it is easy to judge a sentence aimed at a barbaric way of doing politics. If in 20 years the others, the left, will probably govern, is this the way to build dialogue between social forces and those who govern: banners, insults, media ambushes? La retromarcia di Brunetta: «I precari sono vittime, io ce l'ho con casta romana», Corriere della sera, 16 June 2011. I consider off-wave to be illegal interceptions. Brunetta l’ha presa bene, ilpost.it, 7 July 2011. Not only do we have a duty to save the country from crisis, but it is our great opportunity to turn the tide and set out to win the elections again in 2013. La ricetta di Brunetta: "Per fare le riforme bastano tre mesi", ilgiornale.it, 10 August 2011. 2013 When I want to know what the left thinks of some cultural category or historical or contemporary event or figure, I search on Wikipedia. It expresses the average mentality of the Italian university researcher, usually a frustrated and (he believes) unknown student of Umberto Eco. Demolizione della satira servile, furba e canagliesca (in Rai), Il Foglio.it, 25 September 2013. Sole a catinelle. Zalone fully expresses the positive, generous, anti-communist, moderate, serene philosophy of Berlusconi and Forza Italia. tweet, 20 November 2013. 2014 The government's statements and the front pages of newspapers on the Dell'Utri affair clearly mark the beginning of the election campaign. Dell'Utri, until a final sentence, is innocent and must be considered as such by everyone, including prosecutors and judges. What crime did he commit for being publicly humiliated and shackled in a foreign police station? Not at all. His passport was not withdrawn, he was never banned from leaving the country. So why treat an innocent person who isn't committing any crime as a criminal? A trial of intentions has been hatched. He made up a crime out of thin air based on third-party chatter. Indecent. Dell'Utri arrestato, Brunetta: "Vittima di tortura giudiziaria. Come Andreotti", il Fatto Quotidiano.it, 13 April 2014. Marcello Dell'Utri, whatever sentence there is on Tuesday, is truly innocent, and the victim of judicial torture that has chained him to the image of the mafioso for twenty years. The technique is the well-known one, used against politicians disliked by certain politicized and deviant currents of the judiciary. As against Andreotti, new waves of repentants have always been managed. So once the first ones are refuted, new ones arrive immediately. And so on. No evidence. A killer who could not remember how many victims he had had, "maybe 50 or 60", then confidently maintained that the real owner of Standa was not Berlusconi but Craxi. If there is justice, the Court of Cassation will have to overturn the sentence sentencing Dell'Utri to 7 years, as the first sentence of the Court of Appeal already sent to the sender due to illogicality and forcing. Dell'Utri arrestato, Brunetta: "Vittima di tortura giudiziaria. Come Andreotti", il Fatto Quotidiano.it, 13 April 2014. 2015 Renzi had said in every way that the rules changed together, that it would not be possible, that he would not want to do it under any circumstances by majority vote. Now he finds himself alone, with his abusive parliamentarians, outside the Constitution, imposing a majority electoral law to kill democracy in our country, to become what you declared, Madam President, a single man in charge. This is unacceptable to our democracy. We will not in every way allow this House to be reduced to a bivouac of maniples. We will not allow Renzi fascism. We will not allow that, Madam President. And I'm very surprised that what remains of the Democratic Party can accept violence like this. There was no reason to put confidence in a measure that should never have seen confidence, a measure of constitutional rank. There was no obstructionism, there was no exorbitant number of amendments in any way. Why does Renzi want to put his trust in? He wants to put his trust in order to coarct, to condition the will and freedom to vote of his own party. We will not allow, Madam President, this House to be reduced to a bivouac of maniples. For this reason, we will do everything in this Chamber and outside this Chamber to prevent Renzi's fascism. No to Renzi's Fascism. Verbatim transcript of the Italian Chamber of Deputies – XVII Legislature – Session Assembly n°. 417 of 28 April 2015. Poor Boschi... too much power and visibility for someone who has read and studied as little as her. Boschi: la scuola non funziona se in mano solo ai sindacati, Il Sole 24 ore.com, 10 May 2015. But when are you killing this Merkel? [Elisabetta Gardini: «But we don't want to kill Merkel»] I do! [Gardini: «But do you really want to kill her?» Brunetta waves yes with her head]. Il fuorionda di Renato Brunetta con Elisabetta Gardini: "Ma quando la uccidete 'sta Merkel?", Libero Quotidiano.it, 16 July 2015. 2020 (Regarding the approval of the reform of the European Stability Mechanism) Thanks to the new ESM, which has all the flaws of this world, with its bank bailout we will put an end to the tragic walk in Deauville, the tragic walk of Merkel and Sarkozy. For this reason I will not vote against, I will vote in dissent from my party [...] Today it pains me that there is not that same spirit in this House in giving our President of the Council a full mandate for the next Eurosummit. Unfortunately, the spirit of partisanship prevailed, of alignment, propaganda prevailed, rather than the spirit of unity. But this weakens the country, no one wins, it's a negative sum game." Mes, i "ribelli" sono ovunque: ecco chi vota contro il partito, Fabio Franchini, ilgiornale.it, 9 December 2020. 2021 Il green pass è una patente, è una patente di libertà, che è nelle mani di chi è guarito dal covid o ha fatto i tamponi o, ancor meglio, ha fatto il vaccino. (...) se non hai la patente non puoi, non potrai lavorare, non potrai accedere ai luoghi di socializzazione. The green pass is a license, it is a license of freedom, which is in the hands of those who have recovered from covid or have had swabs or, even better, have had the vaccine. (...) if you do not have the license you cannot, you will not be able to work, you will not be able to access the places of socialization. www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/media/brunetta-cernobbio-593a8de5-f5f6-433a-bdf9-ac7db2eb6572.html September 5, 2021 - As Minister of Public Administration in Italy, regarding future functions of the EU Digital COVID Certificate in Italy. (...) aumentare agli opportunisti il costo della non vaccinazione; come glielo aumenti agli opportunisti, qual è la logica, devo dire geniale del green pass? Tu dici "o ti vaccini", no non mi vaccino – benissimo, "o guarisci", e va be' se non lo ha preso... "e allora ti fai i tamponi". I tamponi sono un costo psichico – il fatto di infilare dentro al naso, fino al cervello, i cotton fioc lunghi – è un costo psichico, e un costo monetario - 50 euro, due volte 60 euro - più il costo organizzativo! Tu gli aumenti il costo; aumentandogli il costo, tu lo spingi a ridurre lo zoccolo (...) (...) increase the cost of non-vaccination to opportunists; how you raise it to the opportunists, what is the logic, I must say brilliant of the green pass? You say "or get vaccinated", no I don't vaccinate - very well, "or get well", and okay if he didn't take it ... "then you get swabs". Swabs are a psychic cost - the fact of putting long cotton swabs inside the nose, up to the brain - is a psychic cost, and a monetary cost - 50 euros, twice 60 euros - plus the organizational cost! You increase him the cost; by increasing the cost, you push him to reduce the hard core (...) video.corriere.it/economia/green-pass-brunetta-misura-geniale-necessario-tutti-lavoratori/43d2b46c-1246-11ec-95c2-659c7776a796 September 10, 2021 - As Minister of Public Administration in Italy, on EU Digital COVID Certificate to change the minds of the "hard core of opportunists" (zoccolo di opportunisti) who have chosen to avoid Covid-19 vaccination. Il modellino comportamentale è questo: più crescono i vaccini, più cresce il dubbio... più crescono i dubbi sui vaccini. Il vaccinarsi o non vaccinarsi è un equilibrio dinamico tra costi e benefici. Il costo del vaccinarsi, cioè il rischio – non il costo monetario, ma il rischio – col beneficio atteso. Se la stragrande maggioranza degli umani, in un dato contesto territoriale, si vaccina, è chiaro che il rischio diminuisce, e quindi il costo a questo punto diventa, anche se bassissimo in termini di rischio, diventa alto – e quindi non mi vaccino. Sembra quasi un circuito perverso, no? La alta propensione alla vaccinazione, aumenta, fa aumentare o rende irriducibile uno zoccolo di opportunisti. Se non ci fossero stati i vaccini gli opportunisti non c'erano, non ci sarebbero stati. Allora adesso qual è il gioco da fare: da aumentare agli opportunisti il costo della non vaccinazione. Come glielo aumenti agli opportunisti, qual è la logica, devo dire geniale del green pass: tu dici o ti vaccini, no non mi vaccino – benissimo o guarisci, e va be' se non lo ha preso... e allora ti fai i tamponi. I tamponi sono un costo psichico – il fatto di infilare dentro al naso, fino al cervello, i cotton fioc lunghi – è un costo psichico, e il costo monetario 50 euro, due volte 60 euro, più il costo organizzativo! Tu gli aumenti il costo; aumentandogli il costo, tu lo spingi a ridurre lo zoccolo, in questa maniera tu diminuisci la probabilità di circolazione del virus, e diminuendo la probabilità di circolazione del virus, diminuisci le varianti, perchè le varianti si manifestano solo se c'è circolazione, se non c'è circolazione non ci sono le varianti. The behavioral model is this: the more vaccines grow, the more doubt grows... the more doubts about vaccines grow. To get vaccinated or not to get vaccinated is a dynamic balance between costs and benefits. The cost of getting vaccinated, that is, the risk – not the monetary cost, but the risk – with the expected benefit. If the vast majority of humans, in a given territorial context, get vaccinated, it is clear that the risk decreases, and therefore the cost at this point becomes, even if very low in terms of risk, high – and therefore I do not get vaccinated. It almost seems like a perverse circuit, right? The high propensity to vaccinate increases, increases, or makes irreducible a core of opportunists. If it hadn't been for vaccines, the opportunists weren't there, they wouldn't have been there. So now what's the game to play: to increase the cost of non-vaccination for opportunists. How do you increase it to opportunists, what is the logic, I must say brilliant, of the green pass: you say either you get vaccinated, no you don't vaccinate me – very well or you get better, and okay if he didn't take it... and then you get tested. Swabs are a psychological cost –the fact of sticking long cotton swabs into the nose, up to the brain– is a psychological cost, and the monetary cost is 50 euros, twice 60 euros, plus the organizational cost! You increase its cost; by increasing its cost, you push it to reduce its base, thus decreasing the likelihood of virus circulation, and by decreasing the likelihood of virus circulation, you decrease the variants, because variants only appear if there is circulation; if there is no circulation, there are no variants. Green pass, Brunetta: «Misura geniale. Necessario per tutti i lavoratori», video available on corriere.it, 10 September 2021, min. 00:38-03:05 Quotes about MP Brunetta is the most lazy slacker in Italy. He's truly the prototype of a state slacker, because he continues to earn his salary as a member of parliament even though he no longer does his job as a member of parliament. He's truly a disgrace because, among other things, he also wants to moralize the public administration, he also wants to flog lazy public employees. Can a slacker like Brunetta be a flogger of the public administration? I don't really think so, but, unfortunately, the caste continues to maintain its privileges. Francesco Barbato, Video available on YouTube. He had the merit of highlighting a crucial problem for our country, and addressing it head-on; and also the merit of accepting some important proposals from the Democratic Party. In many cases, however, he preferred the announcement effect and the great media impact to the patient and thoughtful work of tesitura. Pietro Ichino, Brunetta e l'amore per gli ultimatum: «Io non mi faccio mai intimidire», Corriere.it, 15 May 2009. Brunetta, with all due respect, has undeniable intellectual and cultural qualities, but as a political line I find it crazy: he is a fertilizer of the most bleak populism. Gabriele Albertini, quoted in Dario Tiengo, Intervista a Gabriele Albertini, ex sindaco di Milano "Il centrodestra di governo non può essere demagogico e populista" "Parisi? Si guardi dall'invidia dei colonnelli di FI", bellunopress.it, 10 October 2016. External links Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:Academics from Italy Category:Politicians from Italy Category:Government ministers Category:Economists from Italy Category:Journalists from Italy Category:People from Venice