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The employees of Italian railroads started a series of strikes this morning, which will include also employees of airlines, bus and port transportation. According to the agency DPA, the number of strikers can reach 300 000.Railroads began their eight hours break from work at 9 a.m. Hundreds of flights are going to be canceled in Rome and Milan, because of the strike, started at 11 a.m. Bus, tram and metro drivers will stop their duties in several Italian towns in various times.This strike is organized by the Main Italian Trade-Union as a protest against the reduction of finances in the field of public transportation for the next year. They are also connected to the main economy crisis in the country controlled airline company Alitalia and the railroad organization Trenitalia. It looks like the Italians will have to use their feet to get anywhere, or to figure out something more sophisticated. One example of pure geniality sits in their government. The conservative politician Gustavo Selva, who used an ambulance for an emergency ride to television, where he had been interviewed. He walked into the studio and announced: "I used an old journalistic trick to get here on time!"The emergency doesn't think about his act as a joke. At the same day, the U.S. President George W. Bush visited the country and they answered more than 600 calls, sending out 50 ambulances to help people hurt in protests over Bush's administration. And of course, it was still day as another- people didn't stop being sick or die. There was for sure someone else who would use the ambulance for more than an "old journalistic trick."

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