It is very difficult to imagine that Italy can do like Javier Milei in Argentina (the real progenitor of the cuts to public spending) or his epigone Donald Trump in the United States. We have not touched the bottom and, therefore, we are not yet desperate as Buenos Aires and in Europe there is entirely that flexibility of the labor market that distinguishes both red and blue America. But at least we could try to contain ourselves. That would already be a lot.
Let’s take a particular example of these days, which illustrates the modus operandi of a policy that continues to spend without thinking about the future. With the money of the PNRR We are about to make a competition that you recruit 4,413 support teachers. These are those teachers who should occupy schoolchildren with disabilities. Good goal and right. However, the competition is crazy. Since it is based on regional requests, it has already been seen (CISL data) that there will be many requests for hiring in the regions where there are no chairs, and few candidates where they would most need. But, in addition to this regional madness, nobody wonders how effective this kind of public exit is.
In Italy there are 312 thousand children with disabilities and 217 thousand support teachers. Over the past ten years the assumptions have grown more than disabilities. The law provides for one teacher every two children, therefore a ratio of 0.5. We do much better and we are at 0.70. On paper we are phenomena: we spend a lot, we take more than anyone else in Europe and continue, even if awkwardly, still to take. Too bad that European data tell us, as confirmed as a study by Carlo Cottarellithat this expensive model do not really help disabled guyswho hardly graduate. Indeed, in the same study, one wonders if these hires are not rather a “tool for social assistance”. Similar to what Matteo Renzi did with his good school. Excellent intentions with which the path of an unsustainable welfare is paved.
We continue to spend like a drug addict who continues to pierce himself, while knowing that, in addition to killing, it no longer causes any pleasure. Add to this that, in recent years, a good part of the migrants regular It has been stabilized thanks to the institute of reunification: fathers, mothers, grandparents and small children who reach relatives in Italy. Most of people who just land, weigh on our welfare.
The paradox is that on the one hand we make the social status increasingly onerous and on the other we increase the audience of those who can benefit from it, although having never contributed. It is not a question of being selfish or sovereigns, as they say now, but of using arithmetic: if we continue like this, we jump.
Nicola Porro, IlGiornale, 20 February 2025
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