Hookers & Blow! Hookers & Blow! Is Italy a great country or what?!?! Seeking A Boost: Italy To Include Cocaine Sales In GDP Numbers by
Bill Chappell May 23, 2014 1:56 PM ET Â Faced with a weak economy and a need to improve Italy's debt ratio,
[COLOR=FF0000]Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's government will include illegal drug sales and prostitution when it figures the country's gross domestic product.[/COLOR] That's according to a report from Bloomberg News, which says: "Renzi, 39, is committed to narrowing Italy's deficit to 2.6 percent of GDP this year, a task that's easier if output is boosted by portions of the underground economy that previously went uncounted. Four recessions in the last 13 years left Italy's GDP at 1.56 trillion euros ($2.13 trillion) last year, 2 percent lower than in 2001 after adjusting for inflation." A government spokesman wouldn't comment on the new plan, Bloomberg says. Italian newspaper
Il Giornale says the new GDP statistics will also include sales from smuggling alcohol and cigarettes. To derive the value of this shadow economy, the government will use estimates that are in line with rules set by Eurostat, the EU agency that
issues guidelines on activities that are "economically productive." Sounds like something Abe's goobermint better get a handle on, fast! This is gonna be a game changah! Anybody up for descending the Dolomites during a torrential downpour while all coked up with a hooker on the back of a tandem equipped with only a pair of shitmaNO dura-ASS sidepulls??? Whadda way to go! A face plant into the side of a house twenty yards of the road with 120 pounds of crack ho' slamming you even harder into them bricks! A end fit for any shitmaNO user!