Sicily Governor Rebuts Job-Cut Pressure, Saying ‘Go to Hell’
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Sicilian Governor Raffaele Lombardo, under pressure from Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti to safeguard the region from default, vowed to protect public-sector jobs, citing the island’s 26,000 park rangers.
“If someone in Rome or some fake entrepreneur thinks that I’m going to fire these people, they can go to hell,” Lombardo said in a televised press conference yesterday, referring to the rangers and about 18,500 others on the public payroll. “I won’t destroy the lives of 50,000 people.”