Jerome James, director of marsala.it wrote an editorial that I agree in full, word for word! and my cry of rage is becoming more acute, but at least now I know there is someone else who cries with me!
"BUT I DO NOT EVEN FOR EARTHQUAKE A EURO ..." (James Di Girolamo, editor of the Giornale di Sicilia)
Excuse me, but I will not give even one euro cent for those who raise funds for earthquake victims in Abruzzo. I know my sounds like blasphemy. And that usually is flaunting the contrary, without the shame that charity requires. But I decided. Do not call you to any number I subtract two € from my phone bill, I will not send any sms to the cost of one euro. Do not leave credit, or payments to the mails. I do not have beds to offer, beach houses to be allocated to small families in need, or old clothes, however, now out of fashion.
I resisted the appeals of VIPs, the players' minutes of silence, the testimonies of politicians, the prime minister to tears live. I have not been impressed with the program listings overwhelmed, the direct non - stop, written in the overlay during the evening show. I do not give one euro. And I think this is the greatest act of civilization, which at this time, as an Italian, I can do. €
not do because it is a charity that ruins this country, the stereotype of Italian generosity, which combines the people's bungling of cooked and raw, and then be forgiven, however, knows with all these impulses in times of tragedy. Here, I'm tired of this Italy. I do not want to be forgiven anything. The generosity of Unfortunately, the charity is an excuse. We are still there, standing by the brook Alfredino, to see how it ends, and joining with each other. Suffer (and offer) a genuine compassion. But we did not move an inch.
But I think the tragedies, all can be prevented. The wells are covered. The liability recorded. The damage repaired in no time. I do not give a penny, because I already pay taxes. And they are many. And these taxes are already in the money for reconstruction, aid to civil protection. Which are always spent doing other things. So every time the Civil Defence asks for money to the Italians. And I say no. They are requested from the many excellent tax dodgers who cross the country's economy.
And in my taxes there is also provided for the payment of court that should satisfy those who speculate on the safety of buildings, and should do so before disasters happen. With my taxes also pay a political class, all, at all levels, who can not do anything, absolutely nothing, other than the catwalk. There
went well, the President of Sicily Region, Lombardo, places to visit earthquake victims. On a trip paid for - like everyone else - we taxpayers. But do what? There was really needed?
uscirlo I could have a €, maybe two. Then Berlusconi spoke of "new town" and I thought Milan 2, Swan Lake, and the neologism, "new town". Where did you get? Where did you read? How long have you had in mind?
The time of pain can not be marked by silence, but everything should be chewed, played for the use and consumption of the audience. Here's how it was created "new town". It 's a brand. As the rubber of bridge.
I could shell out a few cents. Then I saw even Schifani, places the earthquake. The President Senate says that "now is the unity of the whole policy." Hurrah. But I'm not with you, because I'm not like you, I work, not the field of politics, behind the community. And while you, all you have responsibility for what happened, because governments in different forms - for generations - the Italians and trample the ground that, I'm not guilty of anything. In fact, I'm for justice. You are a solidarity that covers the amnesia of a justice that is not there.
I do not, the euro. Because I remembered that my mother, who has served the state 40 years, it takes almost a year in retirement as Schifani earns in a month. So why I must leave this €? To compensate for what? About. When it was my Belice earthquake that heard him all right. It gave a little 'of their savings to the earthquake victims.
Then there was the Irpinia. And there my good and made the symbolic payment to a giro account. For reconstruction. And we all know how it went. After there was Irpinia and Umbria, and St. Julian, and in front of the torment of the fall school children can not stay indifferent.
But enough. Who needs the aid if he continues to do always as before?
They found, of good journalists (that's a good how to spend €: buying a newspaper written by good journalists) that a school collapsed in L'Aquila was actually a hotel, a stroke of the pen of an official compliant had turned into a school building, although there was no way the minimum safety requirements to do so.
Here in our city, Marsala, there is a school, the most populous, the Technical Commercial Institute, who is 30 years in a building that is converted into a hotel school. No safety criterion met, building a papier-mache, 600 pupils. The province has spent almost € 7 million in rent so far, to that school, where - for one thing - in the gym last October has fallen with the south wind (jugo! Not an earthquake! Jugo! C ' is Mercalli scale for the sirocco? O succeed we must invent?) Asbestos in the ceiling.
Here, in millions of euro's, drowned, with others, including the euro for my shame for a political class that can not decide anything, except how to get rich without restraint and to enrich for profit.
I was going to type it, the sms of conscience, then the Tg1 highlighted the exceptional plays on the air the day before the earthquake. And since the public service that I pay, with the fee, I realized that if something was already not seek reimbursement of the fee for the brutality they had said.
I do not give a cent for countries with earthquake victims. And if I do not want something I do. I just want an efficient state, where Comandini not mess with us. And since I already know that it will not, I think that the earthquake is the scratch of those who make policy. Now everyone has an excuse not to talk about something else, now no one can criticize the government or the majority (everyone, even those that are in opposition) because there is an earthquake. As the Sept. 11, the earthquake and Abruzzo will be the excuse for everything.
There are thousands of wasted resources in this country every day. If only we really wanted, the state would know how to save money to help displaced people: freezing the salaries of politicians for a year, or those of the super manager, joining the next European elections in the referendum. They are the first things that come to mind. And every new thing that I think more and more anger mounts.
I do not give a penny. And do the greatest possible support. My anger, my anger. Why do I claim in these difficult days of my right to have a safe house Italian. And I was born into a rage that becomes crying when I hear "Japan would not have happened," as if the Japanese have discovered a new thing, as if the know - how of the Rising Sun was just a 'exclusive to them. Every engineering student fresh out of college knows how to do construction. Make him forget in practice.
And I weep with anger to die because they are always the poor, and in the din of television there is not even a poet as great as in Pasolini tell us how things are, to pick up the pain of the past. Killed them all, the poets in this country, or made them die of boredom.
But I am here today, I feel Italian, poor among the poor, and I claim the right to say what I think. How
nature when the earth moves, however.
Giacomo Di Girolamo
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