(Not that Sicily matters in The Big Picture of worldwide finance and disruption, but passing out some numbers and such gives an idea of where we (US) might be headed.)
“Ten million Italians, for example, live in the region of Lombardy in the north whose capital is Milan, compared to just five million Italians in Sicily. Yet the papers say that Lombardy’s regional government has only 4,900 staff, compared to the Sicilian regional government, which has 28,796 staff—six times as many. Palermo City Council has 25,000 staff compared to Milan’s 15,000, despite the fact that Milan has twice as many citizens.
“The newspapers listed the most glaring examples of Sicilian profligacy. In April, the regional government hired an extra 30 camminatori (walkers) to carry bits of paper from one office to another. In the past two years, it has taken on an extra 3,360 ambulance drivers although it has only 256 ambulances.”
http://takimag.com/article/dark_clouds_over_sicily_nicholas_farrell/print#ixzz21ddYtNIi
(Make government smaller? OK. Lay off thousands and thousands of people? Wait a minute. Let’s not be too hast.)
Link from maggiesfarm.
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