La moderación puede ganar elecciones pero no salvar una España agonizante.
Voting in Spain means choosing from lists drawn up by heads of political parties, candidates selected with no ethico-technical qualification filters by tens of thousands of ideologised people from organisations that work in a totalitarian manner. We are living an era of quantitative ideology in which political leaders think more about remaining in power than serving their country. Donald T. Campbell postulated that organisations’ quantitative evaluation gives opposite results to those sought; our “democracy” is an example of this. Students confuse learning with passing; a good governor is identified with a winner of elections; an organisation’s quality is identified by its position in doubtful rankings. Consequences are tremendous; civil servants are badly selected; youths’ education is poor; bad governments are elected. Human capacities are not evaluated with quantities because amounts do not reflect intangible qualities, and human passions distort rules to one’s own advantage. Lies told during electoral campaigns are the normal short cuts to deceive unprepared voters; depending on ethical support, those elected can alter laws, and even do self-coup d’états. We witness examples close by. Those who win elections with absolute majorities are not necessarily good governors, but those who improve citizens’ lives without plunging them into debt are. Weighted down by debt, the Spanish per capita income (PCI) has been stagnant for two decades. The Galicia PCI is slightly lower and its debt has grown slightly less than those of Spain. What does Feijóo show off about? Governing or winning? Moderation can win elections, but cannot save an agonising Spain. Rajoy’s absolute majority neither lowered taxes or debt nor rescinded totalitarian laws. Today the law is not met in Catalonia; legal male/female equality and division of powers are nonexistent; energy, migration and overseas policies are dreadful; abortion and illegal immigration are promoted; birth rates are penalised; private property is not respected. The size of debt is important; spending to pay public debt in the 2022 General State Budgets exceeds the sum of: R&D&I, Infrastructures and Defence. We have as many civil servants as self-employed workers; 3.5 million Spaniards want to work and cannot; the manufacturing industry fabric is destroyed. Inflation is sky-high and consumption is low. They will soon bale us out, but general elections will be announced before. Spain urgently needs to lower public spending and taxes. Valencian Botanical Parties (PSOE+Compromis) squander patronage subsidies; plunder with taxes; attack state-assisted education. Valencian students sit university access exams, but have not passed Higher Secondary Education; they move to next courses without passing all exams; teachers and professors ignore liberal principles by teaching socialism like “equality”. The middle class is disappearing. Making pensioners pay income tax when not working is robbery. Inheritance tax is symbolic in Madrid, but is confiscatory in Valencia. During this term of office, the Valencian government has lowered by 30% the minimum Heritage Tax exemption by making many more Valencians pay when inflations stands at 9%. What is the Valencian PP’s tax policy regarding heritage, inheritance tax and pensioners paying income tax? Measures for family support and the birth rate are urgent. There are too many teachers because the birth rate is persistently negative; there are too many administration workers because of digitisation; staff expenses have risen by 15.3% during this term of office. Before Sánchez’s government goes, it will make 25,000 temporary university lecturers’ contracts permanent; a true minefield of debt for the next government. Lower ratios of students per class cannot improve politicised education with poorly qualified teachers without vocation. The law makes knowing Catalan compulsory for Generalitat civil servants that discriminates Spaniards, and acts as a colander for indoctrinated separatists. VOX must be more realistic by publishing its liberal tax programme and combining patriotic values with measures that facilitate citizens’ lives. The priority of PP and VOX should be to cooperate in: democratically expelling squandering governments as soon as possible; cutting patronage spending by amortising thousands of civil servant posts; eliminating public subsidies for trade unions and removing them from training courses; eliminating released trade unionists, 90% of the 12,000 official cars, escorts, advisors, and duplicated administration entities. Accounts cannot be settled with more taxes, but with less spending.
Post published in Las Provincias