Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Commento alle elezioni

Tim Parks
Things don’t change. Italy recently completed Europe’s fastest train service; one can travel the 360 miles from Milan to Rome nonstop in just 2 hours and 45 minutes. In a country with a huge debt, this wonderful engineering feat has cost an astonishing 150 billion euros (about $200 billion).
Nobody seems sure where the investment came from or how the project will be paid for. One thing is certain: much of the money that legally should have been allotted to local services must have found its way to the high-speed project; to accommodate the few going fast, hosts of working people grind to the office in dirty, overcrowded trains. But what matters is the gleaming image of progress that the service projects.
l'articolo è in parte informato in  parte un po' intelligente e dice una cosa giusta

Their economy is in deep recession; more than one in three young adults are unemployed; they are unable to compete economically with their neighbors; yet they continue as if nothing were happening, or as if a small glitch in the dolce vita could be fixed with the wave of a wand.

nessuno verifica le affermazioni che si fanno: chiunque è in grado du capire che tutti i trasporti ferroviari sono migliorati e che se non si fossero fatti quegli investimenti come per anni non se ne sono fattti la situazione sarebbe peggiore per tutti.

Come la mettiamo Krug con essere liberal e essere contro tutto dei passatisti inguaribili e un po' dementi. Ma molto convinti e forse anche bravi scrittori?

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