Turning bad into good.

I'd put many of Italy's unemployed to work. Collecting litter. Yes, cleaning up the cities and the countryside. I see so very much litter in an otherwise beautiful Italy. Amazing amounts of litter. Garbage literally strewn all over. Some of the stuff stinks. It ain't good for Italy's reputation. Foreign visitors get a bad impression. On my walks around the outskirts of the city of Carbonia, I see miniature dumps. Piles of garbage on vacant land. Looks like it's been there almost forever. Some of it contained in black trash bags. Makes one wonder what's inside. Maybe bodies dumped by the Mafia. Italy needs a clean up week. Or a month. When citiizens are encouraged to form clean-up brigades. That happened in Genova last week. When heavy rains brought rivers of mud and debris down the streets. Citiizens of Genova and other locales came out and pitched in and cleaned up the mess. Spruced up the city. They turned a disaster into a blessed beautification. That's what I like to see. Turning a bad event into something good. --Jim Broede