Editor .- JOSE MANUEL ARECES The Reformer
"The degree of state intervention is directly proportional to social demands"
years we have been talking about the necessary structural reforms needed state (we mean this to all government), Spain has experienced since the transition and the formation of the first regions in a strange collective illusion. This phenomenon was exacerbated by the relentless growth of regional administrations, the duplication of public services, massive hiring of public employees, the opening of regional parliaments, offices of ministries and other agencies and above all the plethora of politicians on the payroll. Any professional in an exercise of political demagoguery, perhaps as José Bono thinking about your estate would argue that Spain has never enjoyed such freedom, correct, Spain has never had so many politicians, cousins, brothers, neighbors above, daughters godfather, union members, townsfolk, nephews of my banker and several on the payroll pickups administration, that is why we pay you and me. Freedom is one thing and government is another.
The arrival of European cohesion funds was another major step in the construction of the phenomenon of collective hallucination that we live, a cascade of billions slipped through the fingers of our administrators and flowed in all directions possible, less the actual progress of our nation. Much of that money went swiftly to the construction of thousands of cultural centers, sports clubs, auditoriums, empty industrial sites in inaccessible places, houses, streetlights design, gardens, rococo hideous statues and fountains splash. Bread and circuses, smoke and shadows, lots of art and entertainment, and very little beer.
growth parallel to the brutal government and the hundreds of bars and subsidized subsidiary, politicians discover that people, not for the meek to demand solutions to all sorts of problems, and without thinking twice, create departments, areas, general branches , institutes and foundations to address all these "social demands", the larger the animal bureaucratic becomes more insatiable, you have to hire technicians to supervise the quality of bakers yeast, specialists in the reproduction of pine, scholars of the vernacular of the day, social workers to see the extent of application of fat in infant schools, and the man who guards the fountain trickle. Political and public employees say their jobs while the company itself participates money suing the administration for any problems that may arise. What a business closes because it sells?, Workers must be given free courses, pasta and dental insurance, what the lords and ladies definitely want a sex change?, The state pays for it, do not worry you. And so the bubble grows and grows and every one of us have raised a huge beast, a beast that is hungry and many people to support. Each agency gets a service functional duties, whose performance in turn become inalienable rights of the common people, and counting up. The people think, Who cares?, If you pay the state. The shift manager thinks on his part, I have to raise taxes.
East, which some call the welfare state is the most unjust, because it certainly is a good, others are phenomenal, and a majority must work to support the myriad of public servants, the blob beneficiaries, at the same time keep your home, pay the electric bill, eat, and if possible go on vacation. As we do not ends meet, to pay the subsidy to the rural home Euphrasius apart as we charge the room price is commanded to the Ritz, we must turn to credit. The bubble continues to grow unstoppable. The
españolitos of walking only vote for those who promise more gifts, and therefore the political art of these times has become the art of gift and the promise easy. Public administrators to call men who are dedicated to maintaining a particular client network than regular every aspect of our lives. In fact we have created a standard for what we call the welfare state, "The degree of state intervention is directly proportional to the demands social ".
freedom and democracy, does not mean, though the common people he has been educated in this way, not more bureaucracy, not more taxes, no more gifts, not even over alleged rights irreversible. Democracy is rule by the people, popular sovereignty removes and governments, democracy means that all citizens aspire, on equal terms, and without detracting from its origin or ideology, holding public office. Democracy means that citizens participate in the governance of public affairs with rights and obligations. In Spain we have a democratic system with dyes, where a few political parties to govern thousands of members, but where there is no internal democracy. In Spain, interest groups and the media, some businessmen and especially in banking finance the political campaigns of the parties, and post their toll. In Spain, popular sovereignty is exercised through the vote, the vote of ordinary people is something that is deposited in a ballot box every four years and thereafter, ordinary people do not have more tools to go to their representatives and be heard to wait until the next election.
In summary, we can blame the political professionals of many of our ills, but in essence the company itself is as corrupt as their own rulers. The Roman Empire fell primarily by a brutal economic crisis. For rulers squandered most of the treasure in donating food and entertainment to the citizens. Bread and circus for nothing of questions in people happy the government of the day made and unmade at home. Yesterday and today.
A prediction, and forgive the clarity of the terms: our system is going to hell. This is unsustainable will not be able to pay at once, and with available and future income, debt, pensions, unemployment benefits, official cars, more public agencies, employee of the treasury, trade unions of the regime, bars, erection of tombs the red or blue, campaigns dog vaccination, the study of breeding bullfrogs, homes for immigrants, sexadores training for poultry and splash fountain. Is impossible because the money does not go for all, and most importantly, a conceptual issue, the state can not manage our lives. There is a share of society and must be re-educated in this regard. The state can not get you work, you can not find a girlfriend, it can change your sex, not to educate, not to think for yourself.
is imperative to start to make red lines everywhere, the state is necessary to mark the limits of intervention areas, with buffers of growth and especially the maximums debt, contracts, etc. A citizens as stated before, we must re-educated and they know they are largely to fend for themselves. What do you assemble a football team?, Look for the money, what they want to organize a gay pride parade?, Sell lottery. Want a new floor?, Save. We must all make sacrifices in favor of happiness, a better life and other wishes beautiful. But at the cost of work and effort, imagination and determination, that is freedom, love and decide to fight for it. The state has to ensure equality of opportunity as far as possible, and the citizens fend for themselves. We must make a fresh start, zero-based budget and start again. We need to lighten loads all together and reset our conception of the country in which we live, otherwise tomorrow we will bolt in this bull skin and become a protectorate of another nation for not knowing govern with prudence, wisdom, effort and work.
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