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Thousands demonstrate their existence in the most democratic way possible: the square.

di MAURO DAVID

Li credevamo addormentati o, peggio ancora, annichiliti su un’esistenza vuota, priva d’ideali, svuotati di quella voglia di essere, di fare e di cambiare che da sempre contraddistingue il lato evoluto della specie umana. D’altra parte come darci torto? Vederli lì sul divano a divorare ore di Grande Fratello o, peggio ancora di Amici, ha frustrato ogni speranza. Constatare nei nostri figli lo stato di totale isolamento intellettuale e il disinteresse verso i fatti della vita ci ha resi isterici.

Si perché noi, 50 e 60enni, il mondo lo abbiamo cambiato davvero, e a dispetto di chi denigra e gode allo stesso tempo dei frutti di quella stagione di profonde mutazioni, lo abbiamo cambiato in meglio. Nelle fabbriche, nelle scuole, nella sanità. Eravamo giovani, presuntuosi , supponenti, fieri contestatori di ogni ordine costituito sulle diseguaglianze. Giovani contro, a volte antipatici, ma contro le Mutue di serie A e di serie B, contro le scuole riservate ai ricchi, contro lo sfruttamento degli operai, insomma... contro.

Si, certo, da qualche anno abbiamo iniziato ad innervosirci; la percezione che i nostri coetanei avessero dimenticato “com’era prima”, ci rattristava. Soprattutto quando tra gli smemorati riconoscevi quelli che avevano vissuto quella lunga e appassionata stagione. Le 150 ore per i lavoratori students, the opportunities offered to children of our immigrants so that they too could participate in the tournament as players actual existence, and not as a ball boy, who kept the memory of all this?

Today our boys are there in the front row. Thousands show their existence in the most democratic possible: square. Write to the President of the Republic to defend the very principle of public schools, are lessons in the streets. Do not wear the keffiyeh, there are no red flags or pictures of Che, symbols of illusion now closed. But no matter, even if there are branded, they exist. And there are the usual social centers, as the primary right of this country supports. Most of the boys for the first time tasted the enthusiasm for building its future, sharing of values, out of loneliness. What a relief! They defend and improve what we have spent together.

E 'news today, Italy is at the top of the list of countries with higher inequality (OECD). 10% of Italians have in your pocket 42% of national wealth; 90% share of the population that remains is what remains (Bank of Italy). The division between rich and poor is ever increasing, the middle class is disappearing, sucked into the underworld because of the discomfort economico.

Senza uguaglianza, in una società complessa non c’è futuro, ma conflitto. Non c’è evoluzione e civiltà in una comunità se i membri che la compongono, tutti, nessuno escluso, non migliorano la propria condizione intellettuale. Solo la scuola pubblica può assicurare un simile risultato. E’ scritto su tutti i libri di storia, quelli letti dai nostri ragazzi. Alla signora Gelmini, forse non più fresca di studi, gioverebbe un ripassino.

L’istruzione è l’ingrediente base del benessere sociale, alla scuola non si devono sottrarre risorse, semmai vanno aggiunte, sempre e comunque. Benessere diffuso e opportunità equally distributed, that is the purpose of the state. Integrate, educate, support those who can not do it ', which is instead the task of public schools, it is not certain to select the seven in the duct. We desperately need all this, our boys have understood, but who has the reins of their future seems to pursue other goals.

Maybe our fathers, leaving the experience of fascism, war and resistance, although contested by ourselves, looked at us with a sense of admiration and satisfaction that our actions in defense of universal values \u200b\u200bintroduced by the French Revolution . We like to think so.

Oggi come allora, guardiamo i nostri figli difendere ciò che abbiamo di più caro: il sistema di diritti che abbiamo costruito. Spesso critichiamo e mal sopportiamo le loro scelte, ma ora li amiamo e li apprezziamo per questo impegno.

Lasciate che ci culliamo in questa fantasia, in questa similitudine di eventi e di emozioni.

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Alitalia, le domande di un pilota

Ieri sera è andata in onda su Rai 3 la puntata di Report dedicata alla vicenda Alitalia. Il merito più evidente della Gabanelli è stato quello di far emergere quanto l’accordo raggiunto sia gracile, condizionato da scelte che ancora debbono essere prese, in particolare at European level.

receive and publish the contribution of one of the "involuntary protagonists" .

Have you ever wondered what it has to do with the privatization of Alitalia Airone whose majority shareholder is still the Treasury?

's citizens (the majority shareholders because the Treasury seems to be even citizens) also have to bear the debts of wholly owned private company Heron as well as those of Alitalia?

Why would anyone during the day "hot" story has never made mention of the financial conditions of heron that was entering the "cauldron" CAI? Why

Most of the planes belonging to the Alitalia fleet stopped and not Heron?

Do you think that a company scaled in long-haul flights where it became a national and European carrier can easily compete with the low cost carriers?

Have you ever been tested for such records the locations of the companies of many of the entrepreneurs that they must defend the Italian Alitalia?

anyone has ever dealt with the claims that Banca Intesa (Advisor chosen by the government for the privatization of Alitalia) has against the Heron group?

There seems to be a bit 'self-serving media campaign focused almost exclusively on the category of pilots and privileges (I would like to know which ones) and their low productivity?

How many know that my contract sets the maximum time limit of 17 hours continuous use in exceptional cases can reach 19?

With such limits as you can still talk of increased productivity?

Which category of workers can make that turn?

My contract provides for rest 35 per quarter that are about 11 and a half days per month. Certainly not the eight or 10 a month (weekends) of the normal workers, but when they are away on business there are 24 hours 24. If they are halfway around the world and my wife or my son feel bad that I think can get up to leave the office and run home?

How many know that every six months, until one day before retirement, I have a control to test my level of practical and theoretical preparation for the flight simulator?

How many know that if I pass I can not fly and that if he does not step twice in a row I get fired right?

How many categories of workers in the world are subjected (by law) to these controls?

How many know that the number of crews per airplane called Air France, whose riders have always trumpeted from the rooftops do more flying hours than Alitalia, was greater than those sought by CAI?

Air France was perhaps out of charity making of its pilots fly less?

How is it that Air France, paying its drivers about 30% more of Alitalia, last year was the airline that has made most useful to the world?

anyone, these days, he never talked about budget items such as Alitalia are the main persons responsible for the strong and then as a consequence of the critical action in which any recovery plan?

Do you think the drivers selected professionally and psychologically, to take on the responsibility of the lives of hundreds of people were just so naughty and spoiled fools to want to sink a fortune Italy and the Italians and especially the risk of losing their jobs because they would not give up these "famous" privileges we keep hearing about?

think that with his wife (no income) a son, an incoming and a mortgage to pay for another 16 years I can afford to say no to this whole operation of the CAI only for a mere whim?

In light of these questions, and there would be dozens more, the slogan used by both employees and exploited as a sign of irresponsibility "that failed in better hands' sti bandits", it is so wrong or might have a foundation?

Maybe if you try to answer these questions maybe you exit out of this tunnel cognitivo nel quale l'opinione pubblica e i media si sono infilati.

Roberto Giovannetti (Pilota Alitalia)

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Crisi dei mercati, una storia di formiche e cicale

In passato il risparmio finanziava attività concrete, aziende, produzione e posti di lavoro, oggi s’investe sul nulla, sull’andamento di un tasso d’interesse o sui debiti della gente

di MAURO DAVID

Prima c’era la Banca, il santuario deputato alla raccolta dei risparmi. Gli italiani, tradizionalmente risparmiosi, vi si recavano a depositare il prodotto delle piccole economie mensili, often intimidated by the quiet luxury of the big sites.

I am referring to the decade in between '75 and 85, a time when the banking system still held predominantly healthy function of intermediation, channeling savings into productive activities collected in this country.

few tools available to the investor: savings, stocks, bonds of large institutions, at most a few "repo" for wealthy clients.

short, a haven of stability and certainty: the saving of households contributed to the growth of the industrial system by funding initiatives business, while the Bank of Italy strictly guarded balances preventing all forms of territorial expansion. Fat cow for bankers, who prospered, protected from any competition, crystallized in the advantageous position and the golden age for banks. The latter, favored by "sliding scale anomalous" that swelled the payroll, accounted for the largest category envy, and no budget to get a little stress and few skills required, mostly accounting-executive.

First there was the Bank, then arrived in Italy competition.

In 1975 the Bank Italy launched its policy of liberalization. With the third floor doors the distribution network of the Italian banking system expanded by more than 45% (between 1990 and 1995). It was not long that even the foreign banks made their entrance into Italy.

competition quickly became hot. Born in the central offices specialized in the design and sale of new products. Slowly marketing, recurring theme in the industry, began to creep in the bank.

was in the late 80s and still remember my friend Maurizio Buonomo, marketing manager of the Association Italian Banking associations efforts to provide the necessary tools to tackle the new course, seminars, conferences and publications.

who, like myself, took care of business communication was forced to run for cover new project assistance for training of staff (other unknown activity in the bank): customer orientation, sales psychology, products and services .... everything in the shade of the great American guru Philip Kotler, pioneer of social marketing.

a period filled with changes in the lexicon which also underwent its own transformation: Member bank became "customer" , mentre l’impiegato si trasformò in una “risorsa umana”. Il lavoro svolto in termini di comunicazione, affinché la risorsa umana abbandonasse la tradizionale cultura della “quadratura di cassa”, per assurgere al ruolo più nobile di facilitatore della soddisfazione dei bisogni del cliente , è testimoniato dai programmi di formazione che giacciono nei polverosi archivi delle banche.

La fidelizzazione del cliente era lo scopo autentico e sincero, ma il raggiungimento di questo traguardo era subordinato alla capacità dell’operatore bancario di individuare e dare soddisfazione ai bisogni concreti of his interlocutor, the manipulation of information, for the sale, was banned from our interventions. And not only an ethical but also because they strongly believe that a customer "ripped off" would not have been a loyal customer.

Today is a different story. The landscape of products is vast and sometimes unknown bank operator who has only a superficial knowledge. It 's so that the investor is to invest directly or indirectly in futures in financial futures in currency futures, derivatives, etc. .

What are they? The customer knows what makes his money? Yeah, sure ... there are prospectuses that must be delivered before signing the contract, but those who have the skills to understand the information provided?

But history is also different to the attitude of the banks. Shareholders obsessed with profit, not adequately trained staff, on the verge of collapse psycho-physical for the ambitious sales targets that are assigned. Human Resources confused pressures, threats, and incentive awards. I have attended training courses in team building experiences were proposed fakir, lie down on the windows or walk on fire, I saw eyed of those who agreed to engage in extreme activities. Rare cases of training of human resources? Probably yes, but there is also this.

This morning I heard on the radio the intervention of a bank employee that he expressed his concern at the imminent meeting with some clients: "have lost everything, now what do I say?" . How will he explain that prompted them to invest in an American family, economically battered and free health care? a bet.

Over the years, the ant becomes a cicada. Yes, because in the past been funded savings attività concrete, aziende, produzione e posti di lavoro, oggi s’investe sul nulla, sull’andamento di un tasso d’interesse o sui debiti della gente; il private banking è ormai un’attività da “sala bingo” in cui l’avidità detta le sue leggi. Regole peraltro condivise da tutti i giocatori: dal venditore che, pur di raggiungere il budget, camminerebbe sulle braci; dall’investitore che disprezza la sicurezza dei BOT per abbracciare l’effimera promessa di un guadagno maggiore.

Chi è più mariuolo? Chi cerca un Rolex autentico ad un prezzo da bancarella o chi rifila la patacca?

Prima c'era la banca, poi la concorrenza ed infine la TV berlusconiana

Il Papa ha detto: “I soldi scompaiono, solo la parola di Dio è solida”. Se sostituiamo la parola “Dio” con “etica dell’esistenza” e “senso della realtà”, per una volta, sono d’accordo con lui. La formica diventa cicala quando è sistematicamente influenzata dai media che propongono modelli esistenziali riprovevoli, sia sul piano etico che su quello “pratico”. Troppa passerella di gente insignificante, priva dello spessore e delle autentiche competenze legate al fare, al costruire. Troppi guadagni facili esibiti.

Referring to the entertainment industry, how much it costs to build a series Rai Island of the Famous? few million euro to the general public to exhibit the neurotic side of famous former bankrupt or seeking a new vision, the void, nothingness. Between hysterical crying and a discussion of mediocre advertising that breaks through invitations to purchase the powerful, aggressive SUV: buy today and pay tomorrow in convenient installments. We return to the Island, half-naked bodies held together by costly silicone implants, other manifestations of primitiveness, another advertisement in which the large face smiling Berlusconi promises of wealth and freedom.

Poor educational intervention, so that the ant becomes a cicada. The family with an income of 2 / 3000 € per month, with a time-saving and "down to earth", now goes around with the SUV and despise the BOT (I'm not in the page), it is believed wealthy. The cicada modern ICI also supported the cut for the rich but not rich. E 'in favor of private school thinking of chasing excellence, but ignores that it will probably end in the hands of some incompetent "nun". Without the revenue from ICI, Alemanno has suspended funding to some schools, and talk hairdressing.

Now the cicada does not know how to pay the installments, is frightened by the financial crisis does not even have the chance to learn the craft of hairdressing, and soon will be confused because he will not even recognize how social class. But do not worry, we will think of the Social Card Tremonti, health care and schooling for the poor to indicate the assigned seat.

Grants collapse, Berlusconi buys a new house on the lake, the bank employee did not know what to say to its customers. Maybe it's just the beginning ... too