Why do Spaniards take pleasure in being badly governed?
One of Spain’s scarce Nobel Prize winners, Jacinto Benavente, said that “a people weak and lazy, without will and conscience, are those who are pleased to be poorly governed”. Spaniards do not vote their political representatives for governing well, and are not bothered that these representatives lie to them, distort justice for them, plunder taxes from them, create debt for generations to come, indoctrinate their children, make the middle class disappear, tell us what to eat, tell us we will have nothing and be happy, and they ration our water. Yet Spaniards still vote them.
Tyrants’ limits are set by oppressed people’s resistance. Bankrupt both economically and spiritually, and with no linguistic unity, Spaniards are submitted to separatist traitors’ blackmail. Thousands of Spaniards prefer being deceived and subsidised than knowing the truth. Stupid people are characterised by making decisions that harm others and themselves.
Financing with public money organisations, such as NGOs, with no proven capacity that are not obliged to publish their accounts is throwing away money obtained from taxes. The Sánchez government gives subsidies that amount to 7.3 million euros to the NGO Save the Children to manage the minimum sustenance income, so they say, when there are 3.2 million public job posts. Is that reasonable? Conscientiously ruining a country is treason.
Good governors have priorities. The first task of a good government is security, to foresee risks for the population that it administrates and to provide solutions if risks arise. Some events cannot be foreseen and cause considerable harm. They are called black swans, and examples of such are pandemics; or should Morocco perform a military invasion of Spanish cities Ceuta and/or Melilla, or the Canary Islands. In 1975, Hassan II of Morocco annexed the Sahara by simply invading it on foot. Today we are invaded by boats filled with youths of military age that arrive and are helped by NGOs financed by the Spanish government.
It is assumed that the Army will defend us from foreign enemies or domestic rebellions, but our soldiers operate in pacific international missions and act like teachers. The Police and Civil Guard must maintain both order and respect for law, but cannot enter separatist communities in Spain. Spain has “no-go” zones, such as Mataró, where the law is not respected. Armed institutions are shackled by the government, which serve it even though this means ignoring the Spanish Constitution.
History shows that traitor politicians are bribed by third countries. The European Parliament has passed the Nature Restoration Law, which prevents European agriculture and livestock from surviving, and favours imports from third countries that do not comply with what Europeans must respect. It would seem that the cheapest is the most important, which destroys jobs and quality of life. How absurd. Spain imports almost everything from Asia, which does away with learning trades, with industry. The primary sector in all Europe is rebelling, but 400,000 young graduates with no job have emigrated in the last 2 years without even protesting. They seem satisfied with cultural vouchers, free transport and an 80% discount to go to university. What can they enterprise in if they are used to being slaves of governments?
There are other natural risks that can be foreseen beforehand, such as forest fires, floods or drought. Those hoping to be public representatives should know that these situations arise and set up plans to minimise damage. Today these jobs are occupied by people with no experience other than belonging to a political party. In Spain we suffer particracy where the party leader can be a thug, a liar or someone who is mentally ill, and they can become the president of a government.
The vast majority of Spanish politicians have never paid anyone a salary and have no idea of how hard it is to make a profit of 1 euro. People without experience in the private sector should not be selected to occupy public administration job posts. Someone who does not know how to administrate cannot administrate us. Experience in management is necessary. Would you travel on an aeroplane flown by a pilot with no flying experience?
Professional experience is requested to contract an employee in the private sector, but not for a public manager who makes decisions that will oblige a whole community, and they handle budgets involving millions of euros. We accept all this because we consent them with our irrational vote. Bad managers should be dismissed, no matter what their political party is.
The second priority is favouring anyone with enough training to earn a living. These two priorities supply us with security and survival, which affect everyone. Such training includes education prior to university, with a public offer that reaches all citizens, but it must also allow private training to increase freedom and to lower public spending. This means public-private cooperation.
If public spending is lower, there would be fewer taxes and more money for citizens to spend on private education. What is free, or very highly subsidised, is not valued, not put to the best use by the majority, and degenerates. Socialism/communism buys willingness with subsidies, does not know how to do things other than spend on patronages to obtain votes, and never has enough. This is why they always increase taxes, especially for the self-employed and small- and medium-sized enterprises, which are drastically declining with 17,000 only in January. National insurance contributions are so expensive and taxes so high that they destroy firms and the self-employed.
In Spain, the public sector is too important and the Spanish GDP has not grown for two decades after discounting inflation. More than 600,000 Spaniards have at least two jobs because jobs involve only a few hours. The total number of hours worked in the private sector does not increase in Spain because of excessive public spending. Spanish youths do not work because our economy imports too many cheap products from Asia instead of being a productive sovereignty and making jobs. Youths live in a bubble because university studies are subsidised by up to 80%. In the last 2 years, 400,000 Spanish youths have emigrated for not having job opportunities, facing low salaries and not having access to housing. Including resident doctors, the state invests €250.000 for each doctor that it trains, and then many doctors go and work abroad. In exchange for this situation, Spain welcomes more or less the same number of illegal immigrants with uncertain training.
In the building where you live, would you allow the building’s administrator to employ a caretaker 24 hours a day, who also works in the buildings’ garages, even on holidays, who would work and be paid for 37.5 hours per week and nothing more? You would most certainly not because you would pay community expenses of more than €300 a month, which not everyone can afford.
So if you are Spanish, we have governments who administer things for us in this way, and what is not paid by neighbours in a building is financed by debt. You would not allow this situation to take place in the building you live in because it would be expensive for you, and people would rebel. Yet if the government does it, the debt will be paid by your children and grandchildren. People believe in what is free, subsidies, the minimum sustenance income, free transport, in what the state protects.
Lack of connection between what is public and private in Spanish particracy is favoured by government servers’ propaganda, deficient education and collectively acting like following sheep, and party laws allow us to have public administrators who do not fulfil their task of administering without putting us in debt with impunity, but embark on separatist and authoritarian dreams without solving citizens’ common needs, which is what they are paid for and why we pay taxes.
Spanish democratic immaturity is alarming. Politicians and public administrators systematically do not fulfil their tasks, put us in debt, pillage us with taxes, live much better than ordinary citizens, who pay them to enjoy a good life, but do not solve basic needs. In Catalonia, schools have been indoctrinating for 40 years, their administrators do not solve problems related to common daily needs, water is rationed, but Catalonia invests in embassies, in separatist propaganda and in contracting thousands of separatists for its cause.
Where is administrators’ foresight; where is the national hydrological plan, passed by the Aznar government in 2001 and financed by Brussels and with works that began, but were stopped later by President Zapatero for not expecting such shortages and for not wanting to help other communities? Where are reports from Departments of Hydrology from excellent universities? Do they not even know how to copy the methods of Israel that produces fruit in the dessert and has no drought problems? What is being done about so much water lost (over 30%) through leaks in water distribution networks in Catalonia? How is it possible that no investments are made in improving this problem which other neighbouring countries do not have, but we do? The management by Zapatero’s government and Catalan governments has been negligent and quite silly, which is not surprising with Zapatero.
It would suffice by simply copying what Israel does when faced with this problem. Suffering water use restrictions in Catalonia would further deteriorate all economic sectors, from agriculture and livestock to industry and tourism. Productivity would reduce. Catalonia’s drought problems would not be solved, but it invests money in opening embassies abroad. Public administrators work on ideological interests, but do not solve urgent citizen problems. Would Jacinto Benavente be thinking about