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To: Taro who wrote (214127)	1/2/2005 11:51:29 AM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1578497

I cut this from a Swedish newspaper and it translates as follows: Italy bypassed all burocrats ROM The Italian salvation team was first in place in the catastrophe area. - "Bureaucratic routines are not good enough. One must be able to improvise", said chief in command Guido Bertaloso. - "I was informed just after 3am Sunday morning about am earth quake located in the ocean close to Sumatra". He immediately called his closest team. At 8am they alerted the premier Silvio Berlusconi. Two hours later the crisis commitee was in place and meeting. From more than 10 nature catastrophes Italy has learned how to set up an efficient salvation effort and make it work. Incidentally Berlusconi is not exactly best buddy with any of his peers in Europe. Possibly with Blair excepted in spite of their differences in political colors. Taro Italien gick förbi alla byråkrater ROM. Italienska räddningsmanskapet var först på plats i katastrofområdet. -Byråkratiska rutiner räcker inte. Man måste kunna improvisera, säger chefen Guido Bertolaso. -Jag fick information strax efter kl 3 på söndagsmorgonen om en jordbävning i havet utanför Sumatra. Han kallade omedelbart in sina närmaste medarbetare. Kl 8 larmades regeringschefen Silvio Berlusconi. Två timmar senare var krisgruppen samlad. Tiotals naturkatastrofer har lärt Italien hur ett räddningsverk måste fungera.<i/>

To: Taro who wrote (214127)	1/2/2005 5:47:34 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578497

No, I don't buy that one either. The root of the German problems goes back to the late 70s. Sure Schroder and others - especially the liberals as a matter of fact - like using this lousy excuse. The fact is that they, Kohl and Schroder alike, strangled the motor of the German economy, the private sector, by hiking the taxation from <35% of the GNP back in the early 70s to aro 60% by the early 90s. For the purpose of feeding their extensive welfare system not limited to but including extremely generous unemployment compensation programs. This was before Reagan and Laffer... I don't know who Laffer is but Reagan was in place starting in 1980. But again, this is a great topic of another discussion. Hey, the Italians have lived with the same problem, their Mezzagiorno project keeping their idle South over waters for 50 years now. Hmmmm.........many billions of Euros have been sunk into the GDR. I know because my West German friends complain about it. And while doing so they have moved on from Banana Republic levels to way ahead of German economy in structure and development. LOL. Could your clearly biased assessment have anything to to do with the fact that Schroder is liberal and Berlusconi is a rightie?