Podia ser numa autarquia portuguesa

"Austere Italy? Check the Traffic"
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É mesmo nosso este discurso:
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"“I know that 60 people in a town of 1,000 is a good number, it’s a lot,” Mr. Contino, 49, said of his city’s employees. “But if I didn’t let them work, these people would have to go work in America. That’s 60 people with 60 families looking for work elsewhere.”
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“Besides,” he added, “the city doesn’t pay them. The state and the region do.” Indeed, Comitini’s city employees are paid 90 percent by the regional government and 10 percent by the town.
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“This town lacks for nothing,” Mr. Contino added, as he showed off the town’s library, with a children’s play area and an extensive collection of Sicilian history books, including a rare 10-volume set of the “History of Feudalism.”
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Upstairs, a small museum featured Arab-Norman pottery fragments and an exhibition on the nearby sulfur mines that employed as many as 10,000 people before they closed in the 1950s and 1960s, forcing many residents to retire early and others to emigrate.
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Beyond its 960 residents, the town counts 3,000 emigrants registered to vote there, said Mr. Contino, whose main job is as a specialist in cellulite reduction.
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Some residents are concerned that the new austerity measures mean that money for local employees might dry up. But Mr. Contino said he was not worried. “I don’t think that’s a risk. Here, there’s a culture of maintaining jobs,” he said. “Political will here is relative,” he added."