Vaccines, reclamation consortia, evictions: Draghi sever ties with the past
The government should free itself from the binding paraphernalia. The advice of Corrado Sforza Fogliani, president of the Confedilizia study center
The vaccines, therefore, will also be inoculated in pharmacies. This is the right way. We have a network that is a remnant of the past (they can't even be evicted, in any way, under an old law). Let us then use them promptly for new tasks, waiting for them to become – as many already are, and will certainly be in the future – real outpatient clinics for pre-hospital care. There are many incrustations of the old corporate state and notaries are another example (not for nothing there are only in Italy). So much to them that the lawyers can be entrusted with new functions, for (small) fast transactions, for elementary cadastral transfers. It is only the case of winning the resistances with decision, without chattering.
Remember the post office? It took us thirty years – with all the big and powerful managers we saw passing – to understand that they could be a new network of bank branches (then they finally understood it, but they only used them for harvesting, like leeches. : but without credit, if not proforma, they work in a narrow gauge). Real banks do collection and credit (and for this reason there should be special facilitations, which are added to simplifications on a large scale rather than continuous, useless, complications starting with the obstacles in banking activity, which come from Europe that make it – as with the prohibition of dividend distribution – of heterodirect institutions, but always without touching the responsibilities, which remain strictly of the Italian directors).
The pandemic, for its part, has benefited: the Italians have had an exemplary behavior and a sense of responsibility but the government does not lift a finger – neither in Rome nor in the suburbs – against the medieval power of the reclamation consortia, which Piacenza calls 150,000 people to vote for a renewal of councilors that are doing it now as in three months, in the red zone. What should the Italians think, all wearing a mask every day, who believed in the anti Covid provisions? Same thing for foundations, banking and non-banking. Empty boxes, self-referential, but full of public money, spent in the family by predestined bodies, once and for all, decades ago (when local authorities say they are languishing). Not to mention the Chambers of Commerce: in the unitary state elective, today prisoners of categories with their feet in the heat and which, like the reclamation consortia, make it known that they exist only for the taxes they collect.
The new government, therefore, is on the right track for vaccines and more. But he quickly severes any link – direct or indirect – with the past, either he takes one path or takes another one. Certain hesitations do not help, they do a double harm in themselves because they take away the impression – which Italians must have instead – that a new path has been taken. Only in this way will trust return. Einaudi teaches: with a circular of few words I assure the Italians (against the opinion of the powerful – then – president of Confindustria Costa) that he would have defended, as for the Piave line, the stability of the Lira. And he laid the foundations of the economic miracle, which in fact arrived on time.
Signals such as the continuous renewal of the eviction block are going totally wrong. It is a bolso paraphernalia, to call it as Einaudi always called it. It was invented by the papal Curia to prohibit the canon increases that the Romans made in the Holy Years. Then, the increases in that year were forbidden and then the Romans ran to increase them the previous year and so on, without escape. They have never served any purpose but true populism. All the more so after (Minister Lupi) the block was lifted and nothing dramatic happened for five years. Having blocked, on the part of the (technical) Minister of Justice, a strong turnaround that the (infamous, sometimes too much) policy had already found, was another wrong signal, very wrong. People immediately thought: it is useless to hope, nothing changes. The same for the blocking of layoffs and so on. Instead of demolishing these old tools, step by step, they are (without effort) confirmed, and that's it. People have withdrawn the trust they had already given for the self-confidence they have for Draghi, a right choice of the Head of State (just right: regardless of the reasons that inspired it) but the path of freedom and anti-corporation liberalizations either you take it with decision or you don't. And then it is better to let it go, to go on with the usual routine and God send us good.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vaccini-consorzi-bonifica-sfratti-draghi-recida-i-legami-col-passato/ on Sat, 10 Apr 2021 05:36:04 +0000.