When politicians creates a hole in the bottom of the bag

Yesterday, there where an announcement in the Spanish parliament about the biggest cuts ever seen in this country. And what was the reaction of our representatives? 50 seconds of applauses... Very very sad to see "my" representatives applauding the president because of the hardest blow  up to now.


Are we in a representative democracy? The current government have won election with promises that the firsts month start to be invalidated. Just after they won, the budget publication was delayed until regional elections.


Those politicians are not serious! There is not left and right anymore.


What about the recent announcement:

• Increase the VAT from 18% to 21% (reduced VAT 8% to 10%), and probably move products from reduced to normal (this means from 8% to 21% in one step).
• Reduce the salary of the public workers about the 7% (masked saying that is cutting the extra payment of Christmas). Usually the annual gross salary is divided in 14 payments, even if we call it extra, they are part of the salary.
• Reduce the number of local representatives on villages, towns and cities.
• Reduce the unemployment payment after 6 months without a job.

This last one is specially insulting. This president have said specifically, this is to motivate the people to find a job. Is this suggesting that the 25% of the Spanish workers doesn't have a jobs because they don't want it!

And from the ones who have a job, there is a field in the salary where is subtracted each month some money for an unemployment, insurance like, bag. And in case that I lost my job, I can get this and the number and time depends on how much I have placed there.

Well it work this way:

1. You put some part of your salary in a bag. And the time you can have this insurance unemployment payment depends of how much you have placed in.
2. There is a top of the bag. After you reach this top you contribute to the common. That means: you continue paying the insurance but you will not give anything more back.
3. and now, in the middle of the game, some one decide that what you thought you had in the bag will be less in case you need.

Imagine you insurance decide unilaterally to reduce the covers but you are still forced to pay the bill with out an option to change.

But the problems are still there, and will not be fixed with this measures. Even more, this will made them worst:

1. Unemployed will have less to circulate money, and not really contribute to find a job that doesn't exist.
2. Employed will not circulate money because we don't know for how long we will have this job. Sooner or later, will we lose the job and confirm the theory?

But in this country the real problems are still there. The biggest problem of the tax fraud is not the question of the with or without VAT. Even if this is very big, the fraud is when the numbers are big enough. Maybe the global of this problem is big, but the big fraud made by not too many have very big numbers. Why we have a tax amnesty?

Some of my doubts:

• Where is this country going?
• What can we have by pacific protest in the squares? (15M like)
• Are the politicians, and the ones who move the threads from the shadow, aware about the increase of the hate to them by the respectable citizens?
• Are they aware that punishing the pacific protest like terrorism or authority resistance, is the way to justify violent protests? (price by price...)

Next Saturday: "(...) faced a major economic crisis (...) and exacerbated by a regressive system of taxation (...)"