Here you can read my speech at the last City Council Balerna, regarding the 2011 budget:
Gentlemen Municipal Comrade President, colleagues and comrades, DC The group
Balerna Futura approve the accounts for 2011 budget, drawn up as usual in an exemplary manner by the department head and the chief accountant. (...)
What we have in our hands but it's still a budget in the red, the second row, where they make off the first bell rings and fears about the future of measures to contain costs.
latter are summarized in three points, three roads you can take:
- Increase the multiplier
- cuts staff by not replacing
- Cuts to services
All three routes provide a damage in one way or another, the quality of life for people Balerna. Measures that part of the majority of the committee urges the administration to consider, especially with regard to the restrain spending and then cutting services. It is certainly desirable in a period like this in every department uses a weighted public funds available, without waste or excessive, but not at the expense of the population and its needs.
But there is also a fourth option in our view, that can be integrated, the most logical but is at odds with the laws of the capitalist market: take the money where we are, or to pay the rich. The methods are different, we can assume an extra contribution for incomes that exceed a certain figure, a kind of solidarity contribution to be clear, until you get an increase in rates for entities that create their profits individuals in the municipal area and sometimes cause disruption to traffic and the environment of the municipality. If Balerna are in this situation is the fault of the capitalist system and the free market and open-minded, and believe, as a group of progressive and left this in this forum, it is right that those who create the problem contributes actively to solve it. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna argued that capitalism is "free free fox in hen house" and Balerna not want to end up like chickens. It is therefore not a question of postponing the problem is rather a matter of defense services and the right of our citizens to enjoy it. I also invite other groups of the City Council not to get caught up syndrome of "Edward Scissorhands." In the estimate
luckily we also note a substantial short chapter on investment. Although for most of these these are works of maintenance or safety measures already discussed here, is also given ample space for future projects. The Municipality will Futura Balerna a partner in the group as always active and available even if at times critical, critical and different visions who want to be constructive for the welfare of the town and its inhabitants. Our critics and be proactive Balerna Futura brought the group to be the only group named in this budget, about our motion, "For a competition of ideas", a sign that if there are those who keep alive the political debate around the issues that matter this is the group Balerna Futura.
In conclusion, although budget is not talked about, something seems to move from the point of aggregation. As a group we can only ralleggrarcene, although we would like to aggregate in order to improve for all and not a simple partisan division of the territory. Affaire a suivre, we'll be there!
Lucio Negri
