The situation in some municipalities is critical. The second consequence is the failure to pay civil servants' salaries, a situation caused by the mischievous and sly smile of those who see us as leeches or those who have not had enough commitment to pull out a competition. To reach this second situation before you have to annoy and ruin to thousands of suppliers, with their direct and indirect jobs. I will not be the first to analyze this turbulent and disturbing panorama, Antonio Arias did to perfection in his blog with interesting clippings and a striking picture: once again the English prefer life rejoice the victory of the selection before you get to think a little in which lies ahead.
I have very much because I know the case, the municipality of Jerez de la Frontera (PSOE), with its debt of 700 million euros and the default regular payroll of its employees . Is relatively close to the Line of the Conception and could expound on the reasons that led to the ruin of local authorities. Would like to discuss the chicken or the egg and end up going into politics and wetlands. Personally, and after meeting a number of mayors and politicians doubt very much that the primary function of a municipality is given the win and have a surplus. local administration is not a bank . Yet municipalities around me I have kept in bank deposits that tens of millions of euros of benefits away from investing in infrastructure or services prefer to keep picking up in advance (as does La Caixa) annual interest.
One of the resources easy to argue when the ruin of some councils passes court to criticize without any political management of the day. A politician is not a financial expert nor a magician financial engineering. Still others speculate that a bunch of useless govern us and that no private enterprise would happen. Yet we all know the case of sympathetic president and representative of the English business (CEOE), Gerardo Diaz Ferran (which in a few days you can wander with Zapatero in Shanghai), as Marsans Travel management should have taken out gambling of any business initiative and yet so richly is lecturing the world about economy and labor reform.
While many municipalities are on the brink hundreds of mayors observed with attention and interest government maneuvers. At bottom everyone wants in a slip of a presiding we are accustomed to improvisation pull a rabbit out of a hat and cancel the debt of a consistory emblematic ... and immediately thousands of mayors raise their hands: one asked the same preferential treatment and others will denounce the favorable treatment. And the controversy will be served.
For now, the gossip rumor with more weight is the possible announcement of the government for municipalities pay all your debts (controlled before April 2010) at a stroke by a loan from ICO to return in twenty or thirty years. A divine blessing for the thousands of companies suffocated by municipalities ... and also for their staff.
