Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Money Money Money

I was thinking about this vote to the senate... I would like to point out something about this. Well, I'm happy that the government didn't fell, and I am happy (maybe even happier) that the "House of Freedom" did fell... Berlusconi "is at the fruit", this is pretty clear to everybody, and this cannot not make me happy. But still... Let's think about the Italian situation a little bit. Prodi started his government in a country where the ratio debt/GDP (Gross domestic product, PIL in Italian) was almost 107%, against the 103% allowed by Europe. Namely we had a debt of 1.575 billion of euro (datas from Banca d'Italia). It was indeed necessary to do something. So, Prodi increased a little bit the taxes and asked the people with a slightly higher salary to pay more. Ok, fine. Then he started a fight against the evasion. Cool. Then he tried to improve the economy with a more liberal policy (in Italy this happen in the left......). Ok, here he succeded a bit less, but nice try. But among all these decisions, how can we actually find a good explanation to this:
Italy is now present with its troups in 20 countries, with 24 missions. The Prodi gouvernment had set an amount of money of 1.040,5 milions of euros for military missions. And this only for the year 2007. I am working abroad, also. But I'm not paid by Prodi. And he doesn't seem so interested to have me back. Ok, maybe I'm not such a good scientist, but I'm surely more useful then a bunch of fascist soldier that hang around raping girls in the middle east.
On the other hand, the last financial balance for the 2007 gives, in TOTAL, 230 milions of euros for the ministry of university and research. (against the 1040,5 milions ONLY for foreign missions). These milions are distributed in this way:
30 milions for research institutes (for the proposition of Montalcini)
70 M for the universities
100M for the budget
20 M to give a permanent position to the researchers
7,5 M for new jobs

Well... maybe even if I am happy that the gouvernment didn't fell, I would like to ask to this gouverment to think again about its priorities.... and then let me know where I have to buy the house....
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Pubblicato da Eleonora a 10:34 am
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5 comments:

Moris said...

In Istria for sure...
I don't know about the current political situatione in Istria but nobody cares anyway..

3/28/2007 1:49 pm
Ermes said...

I think the real question is not why this year they decided to put some money into the war instead of give them to some old professor in the university, rather than why they don't have a 10 years plan for rebuilt the italian university...

why then may think why it is so convenient to go to war...
and it is since no italian wants the war...

but you know: "the war pulls more (the economics) than a oxcart"

3/28/2007 6:40 pm
Eleonora said...

Also because culture, knowledge, technology, research seem always to be some extra... "Now Italy has other problems, we will think about these bullshit when the economy and the rest is solved...". I mean... as if you can run a modern economy without investing in these things! The Philips is not scared by the Chinese economy, on the contrary, they are taking advantage of the new market! How comes????

3/29/2007 12:02 pm
Anonymous said...

Anyway before giving more money to the Italian university, you have to change the whole system, as Ermes says. Otherwise it is only wasted money...

3/30/2007 10:23 am
Anonymous said...

don't ask what prodi can do for you but what you can do for prodi...

3/30/2007 8:44 pm

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