December 16, 2008 The Wave
black-purple Marco Travaglio
Ora d'aria
l'Unità, 15 dicembre 2008
E’ vero, ogni giorno inghiottiamo una tal quantità di bocconi amari che ormai digeriamo anche i sassi. Ma quel che è accaduto una settimana fa, prontamente sparito dalle pagine dei giornali (in tv non ci è nemmeno arrivato) e dunque dal dibattito politico, meriterebbe una riflessione. Almeno nel centrosinistra, visto che nel centrodestra non si riflette: si obbedisce al padrone unico, o prevalente, comunque non facoltativo. Il governo Manidiforbice, sempre a caccia di soldi, aveva tagliato di un terzo (133 milioni su 540) i contributi alle scuole private "equal", almost all Catholic. Then the bishops have protested and threatened to "take to the streets" with a wave black-purple. And in five minutes the inflexible Tremonti has run bent, giving back almost all the loot (120 million out of 133).
useless to argue here on the constitutionality of the Law 62/2000 which gives half a billion euro a year to private schools, in defiance of the Constitution which confers on individuals the right to create their own schools, but "at no cost to the state" . Here is a country on its last legs, where - due to the financial crisis and the mad extravagance and sull'Ici Alitalia - chop up everything, from public schools, public universities, public research. It 'too much to ask the parents who send their children to private schools, so do not just uprooted, to contribute one-off sacrifices for the good of all? What happened in Parliament shows that yes, you too. Indeed, one can not even discuss. Not only the PDL has obeyed without a word to the "non possumus" bishop. Not only does the Democratic Party has not said a word against the sacred tremontiana reverse. But the shadow education minister Mariapia Garavaglia even presented to the Senate a motion for "the immediate restoration of the 133 million to fund private schools, and even to increase the appropriation according to the promises "of the previous government." Motion also signed by Senators Pd Rusconi, Bastico, Ceruti, Serafini, Soliani, Pertoldi and Life, on behalf of an unspecified "constitutional right."
The stated purpose is noble: to avoid damage to nurseries, especially in small towns that are exclusively private. But perhaps as many alarms would have been more serious if accompanied by any proposal to recover the resources needed elsewhere, for example giving a ritoccatina immovables to the taxation of the clergy, even when avowedly commercial purposes are exempt from tax in Italy. Sure, it would have raised not once but a hundred "waves" Vatican in protest. But why not take the key word in the Pope's speech the day before, the decisive value - for the State and the Church - the church-state separation? That is the secular nature of our institutions? This is not to return to old-nineteenth-century anti-clericalism. Just remember what I wrote in 1952 to Pope Pius XII as a Catholic doc Alcide De Gasperi, when the Pope revoked the private audience in the thirtieth anniversary of his marriage to his opposition to the dictates of the Vatican's alliance with the fascists in municipal elections in Rome: "As a Christian I accept the humiliation, though he did not know how to justify it. As prime minister and foreign minister, dignity I represent and which they can not even undress in private dealings, m'impongono to express surprise at the gesture as excessive. " How true, and very hard. Is there any Italian politician, left or right, which today would know repeat.
black-purple Marco Travaglio
Ora d'aria l'Unità, 15 dicembre 2008
E’ vero, ogni giorno inghiottiamo una tal quantità di bocconi amari che ormai digeriamo anche i sassi. Ma quel che è accaduto una settimana fa, prontamente sparito dalle pagine dei giornali (in tv non ci è nemmeno arrivato) e dunque dal dibattito politico, meriterebbe una riflessione. Almeno nel centrosinistra, visto che nel centrodestra non si riflette: si obbedisce al padrone unico, o prevalente, comunque non facoltativo. Il governo Manidiforbice, sempre a caccia di soldi, aveva tagliato di un terzo (133 milioni su 540) i contributi alle scuole private "equal", almost all Catholic. Then the bishops have protested and threatened to "take to the streets" with a wave black-purple. And in five minutes the inflexible Tremonti has run bent, giving back almost all the loot (120 million out of 133).
useless to argue here on the constitutionality of the Law 62/2000 which gives half a billion euro a year to private schools, in defiance of the Constitution which confers on individuals the right to create their own schools, but "at no cost to the state" . Here is a country on its last legs, where - due to the financial crisis and the mad extravagance and sull'Ici Alitalia - chop up everything, from public schools, public universities, public research. It 'too much to ask the parents who send their children to private schools, so do not just uprooted, to contribute one-off sacrifices for the good of all? What happened in Parliament shows that yes, you too. Indeed, one can not even discuss. Not only the PDL has obeyed without a word to the "non possumus" bishop. Not only does the Democratic Party has not said a word against the sacred tremontiana reverse. But the shadow education minister Mariapia Garavaglia even presented to the Senate a motion for "the immediate restoration of the 133 million to fund private schools, and even to increase the appropriation according to the promises "of the previous government." Motion also signed by Senators Pd Rusconi, Bastico, Ceruti, Serafini, Soliani, Pertoldi and Life, on behalf of an unspecified "constitutional right."
The stated purpose is noble: to avoid damage to nurseries, especially in small towns that are exclusively private. But perhaps as many alarms would have been more serious if accompanied by any proposal to recover the resources needed elsewhere, for example giving a ritoccatina immovables to the taxation of the clergy, even when avowedly commercial purposes are exempt from tax in Italy. Sure, it would have raised not once but a hundred "waves" Vatican in protest. But why not take the key word in the Pope's speech the day before, the decisive value - for the State and the Church - the church-state separation? That is the secular nature of our institutions? This is not to return to old-nineteenth-century anti-clericalism. Just remember what I wrote in 1952 to Pope Pius XII as a Catholic doc Alcide De Gasperi, when the Pope revoked the private audience in the thirtieth anniversary of his marriage to his opposition to the dictates of the Vatican's alliance with the fascists in municipal elections in Rome: "As a Christian I accept the humiliation, though he did not know how to justify it. As prime minister and foreign minister, dignity I represent and which they can not even undress in private dealings, m'impongono to express surprise at the gesture as excessive. " How true, and very hard. Is there any Italian politician, left or right, which today would know repeat.
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