Statesmen and blackmailed

When the minister Tremonti at the press conference on Friday said: “We have reduced to 2,500 euros a requirement for traceability of transfers in cash,” some reporters laughed at the thought of 4 thousand (without track), Marco Milanese (in its say) would have received from the hands of Tremonti for the rental of the house at a hundred paces from the place where they held the press conference “tears and blood.”

The hundred steps between Campus Martius and Palazzo Chigi two separate worlds now irreconcilable. Reporters were not laughing at the thought that Tremonti’s forced himself to pay Milanese (or rather to declare to pay) 2 thousand dollars every two weeks. No. The reason that laughter is the feeling of contrast that separates the behavior of politicians by their words. In the opening pages of the newspapers are asking for solidarity contributions and speak without shame to cut disability pensions (600 euro), while the last is said that Berlusconi paid 9.5 million with no apparent justification for Marcello Dell’Utri. And Senator not pay a dollar of taxes being declared as a loan. The feeling is to have a room delegitimised and political blackmail.

At the last moment in the maneuver were not cut the outrageous benefits of wind energy that allowed speculators to earn millions as Flavio Carboni without producing a kilowatt. How can you not think the worst when it turns out, from the investigation P3, one of the reasons for which companies paid (7 million) was its ability to influence (to the sound of hammers) the laws of the center? How do Tremonti requires a patient just above the poverty line to pay 34 euros a visit to the increase of the ticket, when a rich man like him live for years in a house for which nobody pays the fees? Without ever having made it quite clear his relationship with Milan.

When Berlusconi, at the end of the press conference, specifically interrupted the minister to say: “I want to reassure companies that build prisons that will cut investments”, a shiver runs down your spine when you think of Anemone in secret by the works. The problem is not in the sacrifices, but those who request them. A band of animators cruise can be good when we dream of an eternal dance. But when the ship is likely to sink it takes a true captain. And above all suspicion.