| From journal vicenza Monday, December 27, 2010 Page 1 PRIMAPAGINA What to do with the money This time we escaped. But we can not delude ourselves: the next heavy rain will fall again on the flood risk throughout the Veneto and Vicenza. So it requires a question to which all are called to be answered: what are the priorities? The government has put 300 million into the hands of the Venetians (for now). Regions and municipalities have decided to distribute them to those who have suffered damage. But it is true that money is indispensable for those who lost everything in the house flooded, or destroyed for those who have seen the machinery and tools they need to move on to the company or the shop, we are sure that those who have lost a washing machine or a bicycle, furniture or tavern can not wait a month? Vivaro Two families have voluntarily renounced their share of reimbursement to turn to people who have suffered more serious damage. This is the real Veneto. These are the persons to whom the auditors should appeal to put an urgent and delicate: you can get 10% of those 300 million and divert the immediate implementation of a couple of boxes of expansion north of Vicenza? You can do it now, before the next snowfall on the plateau and the subsequent inevitable rains do fall downstream from the usual mountain of water? You can ask the Venetians who suffered minor injuries to wait for reimbursement for a few more months, sacrificing personal legitimate expectation interests of society? is no getting around: for a public administrator is much more useful in terms of personal consent to deliver "Signora Maria" five hundred euro to repay the loss of the washing machine, rather than invest three million euro in the construction of a reservoir: the memory of a new washing machine can also accompany the Electric within the next polling booth, while an overflow at best does not see anyone, and at worst results in the birth of the usual committee fifteen against. But here is where you measure the maturity and civic consciousness of elected representatives and voters. Who runs must have the ability to impose the collective interests over individual ones, voters should know that rule also means taking unpopular decisions. It must be able to distinguish between popularity and populism. In € billion that the governor of the Veneto region indicated as a digit to accommodate the hydrogeological structure of the region, there are also money for the works that will help prevent further tragedies. The government has assured that, in several tranches, this money will come: it is only then decide what will be the priority. It takes courage, foresight and common sense: we all example of those two families Vivaro, and see who it will more. | ||
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