Parliament is like health…

…when it's missing you notice it.

(… today I went to visit a friend who recently attended the funeral of Paolo Cirino Pomicino. We did not spare Cirino Pomicino during his lifetime because it seemed to us – and it was – truly enormous that a person who had been attributed with such responsibilities had understood nothing, absolutely nothing, about the euro ! Not a big deal: he was certainly in excellent company! Every day I meet people convinced that the 1000 lire exchange rate would have saved the country, but let's leave it at that. I gave the detailed, idiot-proof explanation here , and I don't feel like going over this story again, the relevance of which fades with the increasing historical distance. It seems more relevant, in terms of current events, and more elegant, given the circumstances, to recall something that Cirino Pomicino had understood, and had also expressed with a very expressive aphorism, which I was unaware of, and which, in fact, was told to me by my friend. There is certainly no need for explanations here, since they, however clear they may be, remain useless. Because this is one of those things that, if they could be understood, wouldn't need explaining. For those who don't understand this, that is, for the vast majority of people—remembering that you are the elite!—the only medicine is the one we've regretfully spoken about so many times… )

This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2026/04/il-parlamento-e-come-la-salute.html on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:33:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.