Unità d'Italia. Prima parte.
Gli italiani hanno talento e voglia di fare. Lavorano sodo e sono buoni risparmiatori. Molte realtà in Italia, pubbliche o private che siano, funzionano.
Nel Logistics Performance Index del mondo siamo al 22esimo posto nel mondo:
http://info.worldbank.org/etools/tradesurvey/mode1b.asp#ranking
Considerando che siamo la settima economia del mondo si potrebbe fare molto meglio, si vede che c’è uno scarto tra la realtà della gente che lavora e il sistema Paese che non è sempre all’altezza, ma non è un cattivo risultato.
Le cose vanno molto peggio quando passiamo a considerare la libertà di commercio e di investimento imprenditoriale. Here's where things get difficult for two reasons. First, the laws are too numerous and too complicated, also "made the law find the loophole" that often opens an Italian who lives with the constant doubt that what is not guaranteed tonight to tomorrow morning. Or the one that guarantees that the court is belied by the TAR. Or that what establishes the TAR is canceled by an amnesty, a sudden change of government administration or a new decree salvaproroghe, or a "law excerpt. How Prezzolini
said in 1924 in Italy, nothing is permanent except the interim.
The thing to laugh to keep from crying, is that to simplify the laws of the Berlusconi government invented a new ministry: the Ministry of Simplification. The Minister for Simplification, a discipline that is unique in the world, is the League's Calderoli, famous for having promulgated at the time what he called "a real crap", the Italian electoral law currently in force and for some reason has not yet been either simplified or abolished. In no country in the world there is such a ministry in which employees, managers, Ministers, Secretaries and eat a free ride and squander public money. What do all day? Simplify?
may have simplified their lives, with offices and salaries paid by the Italian taxpayers, our life has remained the same.
fact in the world ranking of freedom of investment and trade are in bad shape. Yet the government of Prime Minister has always promised free enterprise.
In reality the promises were never kept.
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative American decidedly inspired by the principles of market freedom and private initiative, each year he studied the parameters for the economic opportunities in each country. In the world ranking, Italy is 87esima:
http://www.heritage.org/index/Ranking
and free enterprise in our country is considered to be similar or worse than that of poor countries like Burkina Faso, Zambia and Madagascar.
The situation in Italy becomes dramatic when we consider the university culture. Italian universities in the world rankings there are indeed are not even included in the rankings and dilapidated buildings in a state of neglect, poor scientific research, partly because of limited resources and professors with the recommendations made, a few publications, mediocre level.
There is not one Italian in the top 200 universities in the world
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/top-200.html
In the first 5 places include:
1) Harvard University
2) California Institute of Technology
3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4) Stanford University
5) Princeton University
But the situation does not change if we look only to Europe: http://www
.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/europe.html
Browse the list of the 82 best European universities do not find an Italian.
The first 10 of the rankings of European universities:
1) University of Cambridge
2) University of Oxford
3) Imperial College of London
4) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
5) University College London
6) Ecole Polytechnique in Paris
7) University of Edinburgh
8) Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris
9) tied the University of Gottingen in Germany and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden
followed by the University of Lausanne, Monaco di Baviera, Bristol.
At this point I imagined that at least in the field of art and humanities, fields in which Italy has a history of close universally known, our universities were present. No, the list of 50 best universities in the world in art and the humanities there is not even an Italian one.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/arts-and-humanities.html
It can be assumed that the organizations that compile these rankings, being mostly English or American, tend to favor its own academic institutions and, furthermore, in a world that speaks English Anglo-Saxon universities are favored over others. All true, but in the list, there are universities in France, Spain, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Swedish, Dutch, Irish, Australian. Italian zero.
The same desolation you feel when you go to see the ranking of press freedom in the world:
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=251&year=2010
Italy is classified as a country with limited press freedom and is in the group of nations such as Turkey, Colombia, Kenya, Mongolia, Mozambique and Namibia, where television and newspapers are largely controlled or strongly influenced by the prime minister in power.
Italy in the global world map, the Map of Press Freedom, is painted yellow, like almost all African countries and many semi-dictatorship. The annual report on Italy is interesting
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=251&country=7846&year=2010
If we consider all this emerges a stark contrast between what is the structure of Italy, the country system, which is in poor health backward, poorly managed and not very free, and what are the Italians.
think we are the seventh economy in the world. If it had included the "underground" (at least 30 or 40% of GPT) we might be the fifth or sixth of the world economy.
How does a people that has built the seventh economy in the world with few natural resources, a lot of barren mountains and few plains, a number of historical misfortunes, with more to be found, the antiquated institutions, governments incapable as the current one and false simplifications eat a free ride to the detriment of the voters?
There is no nation in the world that have the following contradiction: parameters from Third World nation, on the one hand, and an economy so significantly stronger and brighter on the other side (GDP of 1888 bn U.S. dollars with per capita income of U.S. $ 31,320 per year; Source: World Bank, January 2011).
The reality is that Italians know how to create wealth in spite of the irresponsibility of past and present of the ruling classes. They work hard and are creative, grandmothers and mothers work, cook and save money, and almost all, if they can make the double and third job, who can do the garden, grandparents make up for the lack of kindergartens, children help their fathers . And 'the miracle of the Italian family, the family company that works and produces.
We are a nation of ants who work, invest and put aside.
If the mortgage crisis has devastated the financial foundations of Italian society is because the Italians have common sense and do not "bite off more than you can chew."
But they have a defect. Accustomed to secular forms of oppression are so keenly aware of their adaptation to tolerate even situations that should not be accepted and, unfortunately, rather than overthrow the system that oppresses them, seeking to come to terms with it to derive some benefit, however large or small be. Unpaid taxes on undeclared, or sull'abusivismo building, North and South, Left and Right, Catholics and secularists, are much more similar than one would like to believe.
Tangentopoli broke out in Milan. Do not give receipt è comportamento di tanti: dell’idraulico e dell’architetto, del dentista e del ginecologo, del barista e del falegname, del notaio e del ristoratore, dell’elettricista e del cardiologo, del muratore, del negoziante e dell’ingegnere.
A Milano e a Roma, a Vicenza e a Palermo, a Napoli e a Firenze, a Torino e a Cagliari. Le differenze, quando e se ci sono, sono minori rispetto alle omogeneità.
Quante volte, dopo 10 minuti di visita effettuata, si sente la segretaria del medico specialistico che dice senza neanche un po’ di vergogna: “150 euro, prego; se vuole la ricevuta fiscale 200 euro. La vuole?”
E si sa: in Italia tutti "tengono famiglia" e quindi tutti chiedono the "discount".
The "keep the family" is the metaphor of the national "amoral familism" that instead of denouncing the corrupt leader and his dishonest behavior, we become accomplices and pimps while safeguarding the interests of the family.
It pretends not to notice, you invent something that appeases the conscience. It is said, falsely, "Cosi fan tutte."
Moreover, if in Italy, a Catholic country par excellence, the Church does not say anything and do not report and agree with the ruling classes traditionally corrupt and dishonest, like the present, because the Italians, who follow the religion, are baptized , press and go to church on Sundays, should to be heroes?
Which God should be helped?
And then a brilliant and industrious people, it turns out both bigoted and conservative and is found in the current confused state of decline.
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