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Zapatero's economic measures and the strike of civil servants.

When we had long forgotten the famous green shoots, when the economy seemed that not only down but even began to grow even if 0.1%, when the unemployment figures were beginning to bring down the shocking figure that had reached 4 million unemployed, almost 20% unemployment, the highest in the European Union when it seemed that we had played background and had already corrected the damage he had done the housing bubble in the past, then comes now the Prime Minister and tells us to do a series of cuts. But why? Is not the economy was already well?.


Faced with the shortfall created by the economic crisis as much as possible to mitigate its effects, and to keep up to try to save the crisis is yet to pass a bill to the euro worse, all Ministers the EU issued a plan to stabilize markets, to anticipate the deficit reduction to avoid future problems as they are having Greece (in fact, caused by a right-wing government, the current left-wing George Papandreou is the cake has been found when they won the elections in 2009) and and now Hungary had also lied in their accounts as had Greece, and over to knowledge of the European Union.


why the Government of Spain has had to take a series of decisions to reduce it. So President Zapatero had to take on 12 May a series of measures that he never wanted to take, because these are contrary to everything I had been saying so far as regards the cutting of social rights which he had built up over these two terms since 2004.

The aim of these measures is to reduce the deficit by 5.2% in two years, from 11.2% to 6% . To do so is to cut spending by 0.5% of GDP, or slightly more than 5,000 million euros in the year 2010 and to 1% in 2011, some 10,000 million euros.

Thus, on May 12 ZP went to Congress to announce the following measures:

- Reduce the salaries of public sector staff by 5% on average since June 2010 and frozen in 2011. Members of the Government and other senior officials will have a reduction greater than the last installment of the scale to be introduced for public employees.

- Suspend to 2011, the adjustment of pensions, excluding non-contributory minimum pensions.
- Delete the transitional arrangements for partial retirement provisions of Law 40/2007.
- Delete the provision for the birth of € 2,500 from January 1, 2011.
- Reduce pharmacy costs by revising the price of drugs excluded from the reference price system and by adapting the number of units of packaging of drugs to the standard duration of treatment and dispensing of medicines in unidosis.
- Delete to new applicants, the retroactive payment of dependency benefits to date of filing the application, establishing a parallel resolution within six months which will mean that failure backdated to that date.
- It has likewise a reduction between 2010 and 2011 EUR 600 million in official development assistance.
- is projected to decline to 6.045 million euros between 2010 and 2011 in the state public investment.
- There are additional savings of 1,200 million euros from the regional governments and local bodies.

That same afternoon, Santiago Carrillo felt in the gathering of the SER that while Zapatero was announcing these measures seemed to him that they are pointing a gun chest to force him to say, because it showed that he did so not funny I was doing.

According Zapatero these are essential measures to reduce the deficit and bolster confidence in the English economy and also enhance the financial stability of the euro area. Had to cut 15,000 million euros until the end of 2011, and the government understands that be fair to let in all of us to share the effort, which not only support those who have become unemployed, or those who have had close their businesses because they do not give them credit.

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adopt these measures had to be called to all Members of Congress, because once again, the PP, far from understanding the plight and have some sense of state and help Spain, chose to demagogue and to frontism to cause drop Zapatero, saying he wanted to come down the salary to anyone. Obviously!. Nobody in their right mind would want to be lower salary. Moreover, Mrs. De Cospedal to the stupidity even said that the PP is the social and progressive party!. The Workers' Party, which protects pensioners. So the final was won by a vote, 169 votes of the PSOE in favor of these measures, and the abstention of CiU, CC and UPN, the other against.

Angela Merkel promised that Germany would cut taxes, and after having chosen these settings for the entire European Union, had to come out and say it would not able to fulfill that promise. also announced the largest economic adjustment in Germany since World War II, and the new British Prime Minister David Cameron said that no one will escape the cuts that have to do in the UK. So This is because Zapatero of Spain is poor or because they are taken at European level?. Needless to say that both Brussels as Merkel and Zapatero congratulated the OECD for taking these measures in Spain. Which face he should make Rajoy when Merkel, that is right, is congratulated Zapatero and that he had voted against them? What brought face when Brussels Zapatero congratulated by these measures? . The PP does not realize that if the evening of May 27 would not have approved these measures, markets the next day, the stock would have plummeted. And it does not go far when it emerged that Hungary also had deceived his accounts caused the IBEX 35 index fell 3.8% to April 2009 levels. And that's Hungary. What would have happened not to have approved such measures?. Perhaps now would be a country Spain intervened financially by the IMF such as Greece, and it would be asking Rajoy Zapatero's resignation and early elections but immediately. That's the only thing that really concerned Rajoy: Elections and before you actually get out of the crisis and he can not take advantage of that to their advantage, he knows that if the economy recovers as it seems, in spite of strikes and actions, he will have very little to do.


is true that now it is bad for many businesses, especially construction, but it is also true that when they were doing well, not the officials agreed. Was it a speculator or a developer to give him a flat, one staff member to share good times with those you are not up as the standard of living?. Not really. So why now are officials who have to pay the piper for these before they went so well, now we go so wrong?. Is only fair that they make these cuts to public?. Do you cut the plumber or electrician for 5% of their salary when they go to work in a house?. Is it down to 5% the driver or the attorney when they pass their bill? , or lower the price of bread or milk 5% for not so noticeable this cut?. No, these things can not be done, because they are autonomous. So is it fair to have to pay only staff shortage problems?. No, not fair, but it's where you can hold the state to cut. And it did precisely PP Rajoy Minister, when they froze salaries in 1996, and well, then that was the excuse that we had to enter the euro and we had to make an effort. Have we recovered from that? Not really. And now recover this cut? Well either.

unions, employee representatives, public officials, then went on to say that these measures represented a break with what was negotiated in the Pact of Toledo (the pensions ), and was not true that they should not touch the lower wages, lost as much extra pay, by what they would call a strike out into the street in the first week of June , first would be the day two after day eight.

This strike is the paradox, because:

- The government did not want to make these cuts and yet has to do.

- Trade unions were so far happy with the Government and the members and had wanted to make a strike, the unions, which are not fools and know the real reasons why they had to take action have had to strike to silence its members and make them see that they do something.

- Y workers as they wanted to go on strike, many will not because they need the money they removed if they do not work that day.

explained And after all this, they will strike, while respecting their constitutional right to make "get something?. Nothing, because this sends the boss, and only gets to exercise the right of the kick, as the measures are going to stay there, because if you withdraw the worse the situation would still be generated.

So who benefits from this strike?. A Zapatero not, evidently, officials either. A union is right, to do as they are still there and pretend to have the strength to then go to demand this or that on behalf of its members. Then there is only benefiting the state (Regions) by failing to pay the money for people who go on strike that day, and the PP, sure to use the data on the number of people who stop going to work that day to rub his face to the Government.


a video I put here Intereconomía on how unions really. It is true that live what they live, but also that if no employers would be better doing what they wanted to exploit the workers.

The public sector strike on 8 June. Now, once we know the reasons and whys of these measures, which each act accordingly.
The results of the strike, as always, depending on who counts and what, head or feet.

- Several thousand officers are manifested through the streets of Murcia against plan
adjustment - Unions estimated at 70% follow-up strike by civil servants and the government will reduce to 11%
- The Government figure by 11 , 85% monitor the public sector strike