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Political tirade is surprise best-seller in Italy | |
2007-10-12 | |
The budget calls for a 10 percent reduction in parties' electoral expense accounts and the elimination of 33,000 local councillors. "These steps are not enough," Rizzo said. "But they show the start of a conscience. It's the first time that a government has tried to deal with an old evil." In 1923, the dictator Benito Mussolini cut the number of government cars from 16 to three. Today the prime minister's office has a fleet of more than 100. | |
Posted by:Seafarious |
#3 Today the prime minister's office has a fleet of more than 100. Betcha none are hybrids. |
Posted by: eLarson 2007-10-12 17:54 |
#2 "Its a big pizza pie, its amore". Its Italy, for God's sake. How is this news? Nothing will change. |
Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-10-12 16:35 |
#1 Cutting back on government and bureaucracy might be political suicide in Italy. In Fellini's 'Roma', he showed the enormous warehouse filled with bureaucratic paperwork about the Rome subway. Generations of bureaucrats, all devoted to passing paper. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-10-12 14:54 |