Monday, September 29, 2008

Why Does Putting Clear Nail On Warts

Final Post - In the eyes of the beholder



My final thought on this Day is primarily full of gratitude for those who have allowed us to be. The Feast is the jewel that the DS offered the PD and were not afraid to put in the hands of those who, like me, comes from another story. And 'the Democratic Party to say calmly that us today we not look to be our former Margaret, a former DS or former foreign parties. Today we look at what is the PD.

would be nice to crown this step with a sign that makes clear that the best tradition of one of our stories have already been born a new story and a new tradition. It would be nice to give each volunteer a shield of cloth, which is little in economic terms, but that could mean a lot in symbolic terms.

It 's a new history of the parties of the Democratic Party and a new identity that is maturing .
I'm not the most credible person to express what I am about to write, but for me the festival was great, a wonderful experience.
THE FESTIVAL E 'in the eyes of the beholder.
then I think I also have the right to say how I view with amazement and tell the beauty of the meetings. The Feast is meeting :
- meeting first of all with whom this festival makes it possible - those 1,000 volunteers it needs to go our applause;
- meeting with a party which opens the city \u200b\u200b
- meeting with the city, which arrives here every night to seek dialogue and moments of serenity, bringing with them a glimpse of what is authentic.
The Party is meeting and is to be together, it is a magical atmosphere that is created among people aware of their participation to the same project. That the magic found in kitchens, halls, in catering, bar, in the warehouse. You can find it mixed with exhaustion and slurred complaints to a government thief and a party that sometimes seems not to listen, but from year to year, is finding those people here.
The Day can say a lot and said many things.
36 debates and 18 meetings we held and all took part in many people . This is also why the Party was a political success.
If I were to indicate 'Alarm more evident among the many that Day has managed to express, I would choose without hesitation that the school . In many debates on the various topics has always ended up talking about school and concerns that the action of this government raises. School I have spoken many volunteers, with the mere thought of their children and grandchildren.
The PD has taken up this rumor that has risen from Day and, when still festival was in progress, Victor, along with all who care about the future of our children, kicked off an initiative that will take shape in the coming days and make our voices heard on the subject. Why do we want - and must - be close to those of primary school by this change will suffer damages that could become very heavy.
In my opinion, the Feast , however, said much more: he told of an identity that is forming and taking shape from the encounter between people.
This Day has highlighted how the Democratic Party has clearly found his identity in opening his heart to others, the ability to talk about "us" which is the natural conclusion of each "I" .
to the Other is the root of the PD and the distinctive element of this right that it would shut in our houses, intent only on achieving economic success and to defend our security.
We know that it is not, because we know that only by opening ourselves to another, we realize ourselves and to grow as a city and as a country. Once again it is the Feast to teach this style.
I therefore believe that, from tomorrow, we will be called to bring the spirit of the festival in our lives, because we Party and then the Feast can not remain confined to the Fair Ocean.

The Day is our ability to look at your heart, listen to your heart to open our hearts. From tomorrow we will have to go back to simply making political push from the heart. Then it will be easy to listen to people, their problems and their difficulties.

resume tomorrow for thousands of school children in Genoa. If we listen to your heart will be easy to communicate with their families our heartfelt concern, which may give rise to a mobilization able to change this bleak prospect.

And then Festival closes, but will not close our ability to be the soul of Festa .
Tomorrow, in every part of the city, there will be many pieces of Day called to look at reality and ready to stand up and stop complaining. Many pieces will be the Feast of ready as ever to hear again the beat of his heart, that passion that gives life to a project, the warmth that can only come from every encounter, from any contact from any narrow hand.

I regret not having been able to do more, not being able to shake all the hands of those who gave life to Day, but I'm happy that this Day I have a little 'and he looked like had a little 'quest'entusiasmo to all of you have been able to give me.

you next Day and see you Day which we will create with our commitment and our passion.
Thanks, Raffaele

Monday, September 15, 2008

Vacation Destination For Infants

Day 20 - Day ended. Powered by a new heart

was closed yesterday Festaunità Democratic , the first Festival of Genoa PD.
As I said in my closing speech, this event is the greatest gift that the DS have made the Democratic Party .
a party that was a great success, from all points of view.
a party that we really felt pushed by a new heart .
will soon be time to take stock and will share them with you, hope to receive your impressions, your comments and suggestions for a Day 2009, which retains better than its predecessor, improving on everything you can and we still need work. This is why the blog will be active for a few more days, so that the reflection phase post-Festival is more fruitful than ever.
was yesterday us to conclude this marathon three weeks Piero Fassino, one of the men whom we should be appreciative of the work for the birth of PD . We introduced Victor and I soon left the stage for ' public interview of the Director of the nineteenth century Lanfranco Vaccari .
Fassino has claimed the ' originality of the process that led to the PD : Democratic Congress, which established the transition from creating the new parties, then the search of members, which preceded the actual formation of the party and indeed has been the assumption. The PD is a party that was born, democratically, first to its members that in organisms . There are other unique ways of creating a party, for example, from the running board of a car, but we can claim a method of transparent, democratic and participatory, that is the envy of Europe and the world. 33% collected in the elections, albeit from a very difficult position, says a lot about how strong and credible was our operation. 33% is a huge basin election. Only five parties in Europe have raised rates so high. The PD, as the larger, much more will be able to represent a company that wants to drive.

For each birth it takes two parties and creating two wills. The child born at the beginning of its existence, it is always very independent, very independent and very different from their parents and only conquest growing its total neutrality. For the PD is the same: it is clear that, having been born from the will of DS and Margherita, contaminated with the fundamental contribution of civil society, the party affected and not yet fully one third compared to the founding parties. This is because build a party is a process, not an instant reaction .
Since the PD is neither a barracks or a party-company -style manor is inevitable that there are differences inside of visions and opinions, however much summed up with the word "pluralism" that the term "current". The important thing is that there will be a synthesis between the Democratic minority position.
The PD, according to Fassino, has a long future ahead, the future in which the leader is confident, and to justify this conviction, relies on a practical example, which we all live every day without realizing it. In his many post-election meetings with the militants, Fassino has heard many criticisms, not personal, but at the PD: the choice of alliances, candidates, program, etc. ... so many voices that complained about the tardiness with which it was created the new party. However not a voice was raised to never say "we lost because he was born the PD would be better to go back."
Even in demanding a greater role in the opposition there's definitely too much emphasis. In what kind of democracy in the world five months after the elections the ruling party is in deep crisis as the party defeated in elections is quick to revenge? also create an effective opposition is a political process and processes are not the sum of events, but exactly the opposite , the events are the consequence and effect of processes. At the end of this process, the PD will have to buy the credibility that comes from the accompaniment always stop "NO" to the Government's proposals with "YES" and "AS" as firm and precise.
Also on generational was exaggerated. The replacement is under way: at all levels of the PD party leaders and elected officials in the institutions that belong to a new generation and Genoa is no exception. At the same time we must be convinced that directors or managers there is a sudden, the policy is not another job, but you still need the professionalism and competence.
The debate continued toccandi issues such as dialogue between majority and opposition, school, the electoral law - national and European economy. I am not here possible to trace all the stages of the passionate speech, that I propose to explain in full later. The conclusion of the evening is reserved for a hard attack on the two faces of the government. It 's true that the polls show that the first 100 days of the government were apprezzatti and that the honeymoon continues. But success in the polls is due to the ad strategy far more than the force of facts . The Government's action is in fact based on two truths: the truth demagogic, that is not true of anything, but is inculcated to the people, and the harsh reality of the facts and figures, nailing Government majority and its own responsibility and failure. At the PD is responsible for the emergence and triumph of the one truth exists.
often these days, and even in these last lines, we breathed a heavy air of sadness about the fate of our country and fear for his fate. This may be saddened us, but just to Day everyone has certainly been able to find commitment, warmth, solidarity, and many, many smiles .
why I want to close the final story of this diary with the most simple and beautiful image of the world: that of a smile.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Pokemone Soulsilver Hacks

Day 19 - Rain, government ...

penultimate day of Day yesterday, and here comes a pouring rain to sweep away the summer and create a general stampede from the fairgrounds.
In Room Aldo Moro talking about Europe, the major themes of the political agenda of the continent and national linked to the Union. A debate is two MEPs of PD, Donata Gottardi and Gianluca Susta and Guido Montani President of the European Federalist Movement, introduced by Antonello Carè of Genoa PD and moderated by Charles Gualco director of the Center in Europe.

Europe is confronting a severe crisis due to the recent Irish "no" to the Lisbon Treaty, which, in turn, is a last resort after the "no" in France and Holland in 2005 to the European Constitution. However, these wastes originate from that serious lack of information and fairness in information that leads to attribute blame to Europe and that it did not enter the agenda of what should be EU-wide consultation (whether by referendum or elections EP) national issues absolutely.
Donata Gottardi episode tells a blatant disinformation: some months ago the Council of Europe (organized by different European and includes 46 countries), expressed alarm over the policy of the Italian Minister Maroni on Roma and Sinti. In the evening dedicated to the TG1 news service using as a long background images inside and outside of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, other than an institution, which has a different location. Corriere said the same mistake the next day.
Add to this the well-known phenomenon effectively summarized by the slogan: governments tend to nationalize communautarise Europe's successes and its failures .

Yet we must not restrict Europe's problems and those related to lack of information. The fact remains that Europeans are experiencing a crisis of identity , which are no longer able to see that element in the key to safety, wealth and progress of the continent, which has been for decades. To reconstruct this knowledge to move on from a Europe still economic-centric to a Europe much closer to the political and especially the social one. Finally, it is inevitable

a reference to the reform of the electoral law for the European . Both MPs say they are adamantly opposed to a barrage 5%, 3% in identifying the maximum threshold . Do not ignore the fact that the vast majority of other countries, the barrier is theoretically 5%, and in fact very often much higher, up to 15-20%, but think of Italy, for its history and traditions, a different case, which apply different solutions.

more complex way the issue of preferences . Susta is clear and firm in saying it disagrees with the proposals of the Democratic Party on this issue. This is because the system of preferences must be effective. The electoral campaign for European Parliament is very expensive: if the parties do not guarantee equality in the expenditure of individual candidates is obvious that whoever wins the most money and advertising in newspapers and on television. In addition, in certain areas of Italy, the preference may not be as transparent and democratic as in others. The blocked list, if accompanied an effective system for selecting candidates from the party, however, can be the answer. Keep the current law, which has three major preferences in college, would, according to both gentlemen, the best solution ; for Gottardi also because the current system allows women to emerge much more .

After dinner it was the turn of the expected debate on welfare, in which Turkish Livia discussed the plight of the industry with the same Donata Gottardi, Roberta Papi , councilor of the Municipality of Genoa and Claudio Montaldo, regional councilor for health, Moderate Manuela Facco executive of PD in Genoa. Neither showed a dramatic picture, in which the government acts with alone mentality of cutting , horizontal and indiscriminate, and end up penalizing the weakest. When the deluge came the joke was simple: it's raining Government thief, thief of health, pensions thief, thief social security.

The debate on welfare was the last of this first edition of the Festival of PD. Just a small budget is that you opened Manuela Facco, head of the debates of Festival. The Feast
embraced in these twenty days many political agenda, ranging from a predominantly local dimension to the great issues of the modern world. All, without exception, have a good audience participation, with many cases where we had a real full house.
I can only thank all those who made it possible to organize these key moments, and in particular its Manuela which of them has made the greatest load. The discussions were evidence of how much desire to enrich and deepen political participation there is in the people of the Democratic Party, a desire that we hope to have at least partially satisfied with our commitment to Day it was also and above all, a political party .
PS: The picture today is dedicated to Rosanna Stifano (left) and Hira Grossi, who organized the evening concerts to " the Scalo - young space" Another key piece of our great party .

Saturday, September 13, 2008

How Much Salt Do I Add To My Bath

Day 18 - rid the dwarves

E 'night at the Festival on stage when the room reaches Aldo Moro Giovanna Melandri, applauded by a wide audience. The scene will be for his Throughout the evening, which will address, with the air and drive that set it apart, so many strong themes of the political agenda nationally.

the afternoon instead drink with Lower Valley Need an interesting and unusual debate entitled: " family policies: a route to Lisbon . To introduce the topic and panelists is Lorenzo Basso, Regional Council of Liguria, which explains the reasons behind the choice of title: family Europe (Lisbon in the title refers to the European Union's Lisbon Strategy ) communities are smaller and the larger in this share a moment worrying identity crisis. Particularly true with regard to the speech of Italy: the country traditionally associated with the project of a united and pluriidentitaria and based on sound familiar, but now they realize it is in its crisis in Europe, which in the management of family dynamics. An application that relies on Low speakers is this: the state today must still have the task of recognizing the family as a social place, protect it and invest it?

Pezzana Paul - President of Federation of Homelessness-Italian Caritas - focuses its work on a postulate and hypothesis. The first can be summarized as follows: main function of institutions is to provide citizens real opportunities to welfare. The scenario being the following: the process of being developed with the report and the policy must make choices to pursue it, the choices can vary according to the temples of the place. Welding between good laws and good administration is the reform . In the West is its ability to develop the political processes that create well-being in crisis.
Europe and family share the essential elements : In both the solidarity dimension is a generative, both are projected into the future and are based on recognition, dialogue and acceptance.
Pezzana then launches in a compelling metaphor: Europe and the family are like garden gnomes , placed as an ornament to another set of choices on the part of a policy that thinks about and think small. Then, as there is a Front for the Liberation of garden gnomes, Pezzana calls to free the seven dwarfs and presents them one by one, physically removing the bag puppets of the seven dwarves of the daughter and throwing the public a sign of liberation
- Eolo: the economic potential of the family and Europe, to be reinvented around the concept of family as a producer of wealth and not just as consumers should be enhanced (by salary) work in the home of one parent and introduce real paths to return to work for who he's moved away to take care of their children. For this action, Europe is just the right size, the only one who can fight against the disturbing given that 28% of families with two children is at risk of poverty.
- Dotto : we must free ourselves from the formal reins of the family to talk and get to the heart of the problem, perhaps by developing a common charter of European families.
- puppy is the generative and creative potential . If it is not supported there is no future birth rates, Italy spends 4.8% of GDP for debt interest, exactly the same amount that France invests in policies for the family.
- Gongolo: European solidarity and the family . Today solidarity is short, short and closed. Should enhance the work in the family and in 3rd sector.
- Mammolo: is the potential for participatory . Pezzana provocative proposal: why not vote to lower entitlements to recognize mothers?
- Sleepy : is the potential for peaceful and safe . Roads on which Europe is coming back, developing a mindset that, when applied to family life would mean that the family is at peace when there is an authoritarian father who keeps all good and is safe if he can build a fence around him to keep out others. There is need of brotherhood, the younger sister of freedom and equality, forgotten in the construction of modern states. The fraternity is allows you to discover different between equals.
- Grumpy : is the critical voice, which must never be missed because it is the basis of any resistance and any idea of \u200b\u200bthe future. Of course, there
Snow White, which is the policy : the kiss can wake up the people and return to the castle which is the civil society. An ambitious end of this metaphor see the PD as the prince who wakes Snow White and leads to the castle. A second instead sees the final PD the eighth dwarf, groping, and lying asleep . Everyone is hoping we can raise, he kissed Snow White and bring it to the castle.

The discussion is then to Andrea Sarubbi, a member of PD and journalist . Talk about puppy, birth. At one time the Europeans were 28% of the world population today is less than 15%. The average age of Europeans in '50 was 29 years old, now 38, in 2050 49. This regression, however, demographic
especially strong in Italy and Spain, much less in the Scandinavian countries, the United Kingdom or France.
Since giving birth to children is an individual choice of public importance you must change the cost / benefit ratio between a child and do not do . In France, if you already have two sons, the third "should", thanks to a specific tax policy favorable to large families. Why if I buy a cell phone for work I can deduct the expense, but if you buy diapers that I can not?
The problem of falling birth rate is linked to policy choices and not to religious convictions: Take the example of France, where there are more children, and divorces and abortions are more than in Italy. France spends 12% of social spending on family policy, Italy 4%. In France the woman who gives birth to third child pays the state € 750 per month for a year and use the taxation system of splitting income. Furthermore, young people first enter the world of work and have greater mobility.
The Italy of today does not offer great prospects Puppy, the government has done nothing. The PD has suggested a baby gift tax of 2500 € (variable depending on income), the deductibility of rent and the mortgage to 23%, and the creation of a real plan that can deflate the home-emergency prices real estate market.
Meanwhile, the government majority, made up of many "champions of family," says and does another, while the dwarfs are in a cage and Brancolo is still a bit 'numb.