We look more and more like Venezuela with every passing day.
The Canaries, the Spanish part that looks more like Venezuela, are flooded with illegal immigrants and have an extremely high unemployment rate. They are where protest marches against excessive tourism take place, even though immigrants arrive in small boats and lodge in hotels. The case must be that when European tourists travel to the Canaries and spend their money, they do not let the unemployed rest, who are sick of not working, and illegal immigrants are neither a nuisance nor commit crimes. These are some of the results of Spain having to put up with communism. There would be another war if it were not for tourism. el turista europeo al viajar a Canarias y gastar no deja descansar a los parados, cansados de no trabajar, y que los inmigrantes ilegales, ni molestan, ni delinquen. Cosas del comunismo que padecemos. Si no fuera por el turismo, tendríamos otra guerr
Physical ailments increase with age, and people take their daily doses of pills. If you go to Spanish Primary Health Care, they prescribe you pills without them knowing what ailment you have, and here in Spain we are leaders of per capita anxiolytics use. Socialism identifies healthcare quality with its university and cost-free status. At my medical centre the printer was not working and I had to leave without my test results; others have to wait months for surgery; infections at hospitals cause 18 deaths every day. Is all this quality health care? That depends on the quality that you expect it to have.
In Spain, more than 2 million unemployed immigrants use healthcare services. Why do we allow this if they are out of work? The door to immigration is left open wide, we do not train them and they do not know Spanish; so what do they live on? The Bank of Spain stating that we need thousands of immigrants to finance pensions is incomprehensible. They should say legal immigrants with decent wages because otherwise it is deceitful. Mr. Fernández de Cos, do not support the government; we thought you were independent.
International criminals come to Spain, where you will have nothing, but will be happy at the expense of all the rest; you will commit crime, but will not pay for them; it is where neither the police can defend themselves and do not have the means to fight crime; it is where criminals are granted amnesty. Any free service degenerates, and they prescribe you pills which you think are curing you. You attend a Spanish public university (PU) and you think that you will get a job after obtaining an educational pill for studying a public degree.
I read the El PAIS newspaper every day, which is like taking a pill to improve the circulation of socialist lies, spread by socialist academics who think whatever their masters want. Anyone in power scorns critics to deceive better. Powerful people place pressure on the media to avoid criticism. Public powers spend money on contracts and subsidies for private media to stamp out negative views and to diffuse positive ones. Hired cooperative workers think in the same way as whoever pays thinks. Academic people of literature, sellers of books, have no idea about economics, and discredit capitalism without knowing what it is by identifying it as disproportionate consumption. You can read in the El PAIS of Saturday 4/5/2024 the article “No limits”, whose author, A. Muñoz Molina, ignores and distorts capitalism by confusing it with neoliberalism and unlimited growth; this socialist propaganda is spread to continue earning an El PAIS salary. This is how they justify Spanish socialism with a stagnant Spanish GDP for two decades and its unemployment twice that of the mean of the OECD. Please read Superabundance, M.L. Tupy and G.L. Pooley, 2024, and you will be cured by Agenda 2030 of the communism of new Malthusianism enthusiasts, the European “fools” who have gone astray, of the Spanish government and its hired writers.
Ever since the media is yet another business, the importance of the truth is lost and replaced with what the majority think. Reading lies when you are used to seeking the truth is a bit like the feeling you get when you correct exams and come across spelling mistakes or an extremely bad calculation.
The President of Asturias, Mr. Barbón, promotes Asturian as a co-official language. The Spanish Parliament spends 17 million euros on earpieces to hear translations with. The President of Galician, Mr. Rueda, offers people’s first registration with a university for free. Populists are quickly imitated. Spanish governors squander criminal public spending with the debt we have.
Learned trades have been lost and services seem unworthy to those who do not accept them. Any Spanish youth who wants to be a university study is one; manual work is for immigrants. Something similar to immigration occurs with public education. Many South-American families send their children to Spain where university education is given away. They believe the propaganda on the videos that sell university as if it were a hair restorer for the bald: a university degree is not good for getting a job in Spain, but might be useful if students return to the countries where they were born.
One of the main causes of the lowering levels expected of PU is the link between financing and the number of degree holders (graduates). It is a bit like the more degree holders, the more money received; so there are more students. Students voting deans and rectors are another factor that lies behind lowering levels of what is expected of PU. Teaching quality is identified with student surveys (for the course when a teacher prepares students exams) and is a downward step.
The socialist indicators of scales of quantities, and also of votes, linked with the elimination of experts’ subjectivity, and people adoring “objective quantities” have converted PU into a crèche where talent is not made the most of because it is wasted for not demanding the best. The assumed selectivity exams, sat to be entitled to attend university, are an excuse and select nothing according to capacities. Students’ and teachers’ talent is not put to good use. Quantitative scales neither measure what is important, nor manage certainties, not even the real data in several authors’ publications.
Step by step, the PU’s level is not as high as it was in the last year of Higher Secondary Education of the 1970s in Spain, except for computer skills due to digitisation, and due to all the negative effects that it implies: lack of reflection, impatience, decontextualisation, ignorance of both dimension and proportion, having less imagination, not being used to doubting, loss of critical sense, addiction, etc. If a final Higher Education exam had to be sat now, 90% of today’s university students would not pass it.
Researchers’ aversion to risk, to ensure quantitative productivity, results in the narcissist culture of “know how”, of having done a lot, but no-one but the author is interested in it to promote him/herself. PU produces mounds of perishable material. Awards and medals are handed out to whoever produces more and obeys. Newton stating that producing minor innovation takes years is worthless, as is Ramón y Cajal stating that ideas should not be repeated in publications. At PU, “narcissists” who publish 10 papers a year can be found in every corridor, which nobody reads, but cites. Others become professors and repeat the same idea throughout their working lives, and are experts in hiding, camouflaging and repeating the disguised truth.
The fact that the expected level of PU drops has become a permanent feature, and was particularly evident when Zapatero arrived. The introduction of quantitative criteria, presumably objective ones, to evaluate teachers is as false as objective prices for goods, Marxist fallacy, as unveiled by the Austrian School of Economics
Any ranking can deceive even the average journalist. The fact that there numbers does not imply that objectivity exists, and quantities of nothing cannot properly measure people’s important capacities (Campbell’s Law). Using a written exam to select a doctor, a teacher, a tax inspector or a judge means it must be an extremely well designed exam to be able to do so and, even if it were, it would be doubtful. The former opposition exams (to access a civil servant post) have been diluted. Now we are attended to by civil servants who are incapable of doing any speciality. For two decades now, the Spanish PU acts as a centre of socialist obedience, one that submits to power and pursues dissidents.
Like living beings, private organisations are born, grow and die. If you feel like finding out what the oldest companies on the main Stock Exchanges last, you can see that this is so. Public institutions form part of power; they serve power or fit power like a glove on a hand; they last because they obey, but not for their competence. Their influence wanes and continues because they are financed with taxes. PU is an example of a dying institution. Offered degrees multiply to not amortise thousands of teachers and administration workers’ redundant job posts.
PU is not independent of governments; creative excellence cannot exist without freedom and without evaluating the entrepreneur risk by eliminating quantities, voting and rankings. Talent is not put to good use; a university degree is facilitated, but is not used. Students evaluate their teachers, just as teachers evaluate their students, because this is socialist equality. You work for more than half a year to pay Inland Revenue, even though you learn very little, and every average Spaniard has a debt that is the equivalent to 16 months income. The Spanish annual per capita income is 24,000 euros (the same constant amount in euros for two decades), and debt is 32,000 euros. Politicians live very well on high income in kind, which they do not declare, and nor is it subject to inspection.
Spain is becoming an increasingly communist country, where the President of the government gives no explanations about his family’s peddling of political favours, but acts like a thug and threatens us that daring to report his lack of transparency is a new period. Who defends justice, equality in the face of the law, the Spanish Constitution? For how long will we put up with “Hallo President” and “many people like President Maduro” at the Moncloa Palace (where the Spanish president lives)? Some countries overthrow dictators, but not in Venezuela and Spain.