text: Here's an example of why the two last things are important. In April 2011, during a prime time TV 
  
  talk-show, Italian MP Enrico Letta asked Education Minister Gelmini to justify further cuts to 
  
  Public Schools declared in the new State budget. Gelmini knew nothing about such cuts to the 
  
  budget of her own Ministry, so all she could reply at the moment was that Letta's assertions were 
  
  inconsistent. 
  
  Two days later, two bloggers "proved" that Gelmini was right and Letta's analysis wrong because he 
  
  had cited gross figures instead of net ones and ignored that school budget cuts from 2012 onwards 
  
  were not new at all, but had been already approved in 2008. Right after this debunking, a third blog 
  
  asserted that*everybody*was wrong: Letta, Gelmini and also the first two bloggers who, for 
  
  unknown reasons, had associated to the Education budget alone all the cuts to the whole public 
  
  sector, and then based all their calculations on a different (and wrong) summary table, not the one 
  
  used (still wrongly, but for other reasons) by Letta. 
  
  As far as we're concerned, the real issue here is not who was right and why, exactly, all the others 