Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
"We were and still are the most important Italian city in terms of producing things," Gattino says. "The attitude of people here is very disciplined and very much an attitude toward work. ... People in Torino thought they had to produce, they had to build cars. Leisure was the last thing."
But work is a shrinking commodity in Torino. At its peak as Italy's Motown in the '80s, Fiat had 100,000 employees here. Now, it's 15,000. TRANSLATION: Italy's Rust Belt got the GE BANCORP GAMES! Hey Ed! GOV! I suggest we lobby GE BANCORP to stage their summer games in PITTSBURGH!
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