Talvolta mi chiedo se non ci meritiamo veramente il debito pubblico, se non siamo consapevoli del fatto che pretendiamo di considerarci europei, mentre ci avviciniamo sempre più a standard del quarto mondo. Per non smentire la pessima fama di cui giustamente godiamo come italiani, pensiamo solo agli aspetti superficiali e meramente formali. Durante un mandato Craxi, the Italian government announced that it had exceeded the UK in the ranking of most industrialized countries: it was simply the result of the change in some coefficients, determined unilaterally. Margaret Thatcher once argued that it was made costume of Italians do not respect the rules .
heatedly debated in recent days that the Spain there has or has not passed, but some things are happening much more indicative. From fourteen years (sic!) Activity collection and disposal in Campania was commissioner and the region is drowning under tons of garbage . Many have blamed on the Camorra , alluding to which they have earned handsome profits to inefficiency. It is clear that context, the statement itself, but someone should do the courtesy to explain it. I understand that both the local prefect in charge of all activity and hence of the contracts for collection and smaltimanto: we can not even trust the Prefect? I understand that in other Italian regions and there are powerful criminal organizations operate, how come only in Campania can not handle the garbage? Now that the Germany has offered to dispose of all waste from Campania, some estimates claim that there still would be cheaper than disposal in Italy! Over the last few years I have visited some places: Nairobi (yes, the African city!) Is a garden compared to Naples, Calcutta (yes, the Indian city of thirteen million souls, where Mother Teresa began to collect the dying in the street!) the garbage is collected by hand Castes and the city is very clean , well Soweto (yes, the very famous South West Township South Africa!) does not have the problem of waste. While no one acts, all make reference to wider responsibilities, to give assistance and some feel entitled to utter grandiose nonsense, such as reducing the amount of waste at source and to push and invest (or ask more money) in the collection!
Another significant issue is the sale of Alitalia and consequences for the airport of Malpensa . The situation is the result of the many aspects of state capitalism perverse Italian. First the golden share (abolished in countries truly free as UK), which enabled the government to control private company in name only, the second - not least - the very fact that a State should or should not have a national airline: what's the point? The State should simply provide air links to those places in the country who do not have enough traffic to ensure a return to a private company, but to do this is not necessary to a national company. Another problem is the indecipherable ' HUB of Mapensa, without falling into excesses "anti-Roman" by some politicians, it is true that in of Lombardy produces 20 percent of GDP National would be simple common sense to the national hub of the airport of Lombardy. Now, however, findings that are communicated to Malpensa Alitalia lost 200 million euro per year (sic!) Mainly due to the cost of internal connecting flights (ie the value added of any HUB, compared to other airports) . The news appeared in newspapers a couple of days, no one has confirmed or denied, and the citizens continue to read about the hypothetical overtaking English, on the winter transfer market, with Sarkozy's romantic vacations and other amenities.
The starting point is that you can never know exactly what the situation, the single most perverse is the unions that protect minorities against the majority of members and politicians who think only in terms of constituencies. Everything is permitted however dall'ignavia arrogance and superficiality of the Italian people which is proud to be such when the football team back in Napoli Serie A and when she sees around the world the flag painted on the rudders tail of an airline that has produced decades of debt.
In U.S. airlines are not state when, in 1991, failed the Pan American ( the first company in the world to make oceanic flight regular!) nobody felt hurt national pride.
Self-respect, honor, love for their homeland, should consist first of all in the determination not to spend more than we can afford and not to give up what constitutes the true dignity. Can we afford two HUB? I think not. We can afford to send our garbage abroad? I do not think that is honorable. We can afford an airline ever in the past? I find it shameful. It really gives the way to deregulation (such as Reagan, not the usual fiction italics): the market will solve the problems, as always. The State is not the solution, the state is the problem .
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