With bad governments the private middle class diminishes.
Humans cannot live on bread alone, but cannot survive without eating, or without freedom and fulfilling the law. Spain is a good place to live if you have money, but not to earn a living. That is why Spain has so many tourists and foreign residents, and twice the unemployment as nearby countries. More than 3.5 million Spaniards want to work, but cannot or work part-time, which does not allow them to become economically independent. The government massages figures by inventing deceitful names. Spanish talent has to emigrate because there is no work. The fruit-picking, caring, cleaning jobs that Spaniards do not want to do are done by immigrants. Certain occupational needs are not covered: professional drivers, building, carpenters, electricians, robotics, artificial intelligence, data processing, etc. Evidently we are badly governed and the education system does not adapt to the economic system. Spain has witnessed eight changes to education laws in 45 years despite legal stability being vital. Education is politicised by indoctrinating obedient people who take no risks and are not able to earn their living. We are governed by political parties filled with opportunists and few servers. They live off the taxes we pay. We vote from closed lists blocked by parties’ political bosses. Spanish economic decadence is verifiable. Its per capita income has been stagnant for 20 years and its public debt has multiplied by four. Its GDP does not rise because public activity diminishes and the public sector grows; 18 million net (private) taxpayers maintain themselves and 29 million (public-private) net receivers. Winning elections, even with absolute majorities, does not mean good governments when per capita income gets no better and debt grows. Isabel Díaz Ayuso governs well in Madrid and JM Aznar did so in Spain between 1996 and 2004. Save them, no government, state or regional president can wear the laurels of governing well in the last 20 years. Alberto Núñez Feijóo neither improved income nor lowered debt in Galicia. He cannot boast about being a good manager. Many Spaniards believe that they vote well when someone they voted governs. Yet this contributes to the fallacy defended by large parties PP and PSOE: winning elections is governing well. These parties have become electoral agencies that place their own in posts. They are not public servers. Read “Laundered Privileged People” in this blog and see how politicians have actually improved. Spain is an increasingly communist country where private property is not respected (more than 100,000 homes illegally occupied) and the public sector is increasingly the majority. Distorted information, the president of the government telling flagrant lies, they deprive us of legal security and reliability as a place to do business. The government deceives us by stating that more workers pay social security with part-time work, while the hours worked before COVID-19 have not been recovered. Thousands of SMEs have disappeared because they received no direct aid when forced to close during the pandemic. European funds were not spent on recovering the firms that suffered with the pandemic, and many have disappeared. Worse still, no-one knows what it was spent on. The hours worked by private business have lowered. Proof of the pudding lies in decadence and demographic drop. For 15 years, 14,500 fewer babies are born in Spain than the year before; very few young adults leave home, and 16% do so increasingly later to share rooms in flats. For two decades, Spain has become a separatist communist regime with ballot boxes. We have a dictatorship under our very noses, but we cannot see it because mass media manipulate reality. The Office of the Public Prosecutor, the Centre for Sociological Research, the Spanish National Statistics Institute, high state legal and education institutions act to favour the government. The government’s recipe to intercept the financing of pensions ends up increasing social security payments (genuine work tax). This means that firms and workers pay more taxes, among the highest in Europe. Budgets include 40,000 million euros to pay the huge public debt caused by governments’ systematic squandering. An increasingly worrying phenomenon is that many SMEs operating with an orders portfolio are increasingly becoming family businesses; that is, they do not contract anyone outside family because they cannot afford the high tax burden of employing people other than family. The shield against this pillage is not contracting and minimising contracts to anyone outside family. So unemployment can hardly lower. Our economic model is importing almost everything, which not only reduces productive sovereignty, but creates more unemployment which, in Spain, doubles the EU mean. 2030 agenda, progressive environmentalism, means more taxes, which makes firms less competitive and reduces citizen’s consumer power. Why do we have to be European leaders in imposing a plastic tax? The abandonment, to avoid saying punishment, of the primary sector, agriculture and livestock, is incomprehensible unless poverty is the aim. Spain has 1.5 million university students, but degree-holders are not trained in entrepreneurship because nor do teachers take risks, no-one works on innovation, which is sellable research with outcomes for which someone is willing to pay the price. The Spanish public university is a huge nursery. At least one third of its students should study vocational training to learn the trades needed to maintain the manufacturing firms and industries that should be recovered. Spain needs to reduce unproductive public spending, save expenditure, return the leading role to private initiatives, and lower taxes for firms and workers. This initial difference in obtaining taxes would be financed; by the savings made in huge public administration spending; with half the 122,000 million euros budgeted for unproductive patronage subsidies; by eliminating the 28,000 liberated trade unionists, thousands of advisors, official cars, escorts, excessive public mass media, etc. PP and PSOE have demonstrated that they do not do this. Friends of the alternating two-party system that has led us to this failed state should reflect on whether their vote contributes to our ruin.