( Strategy Published in Journal May 23, 2008 )
do not know what was more predictable the last May 21 "the presidential address or the reaction of the political class? The truth is that both overpost not left the script that we have, rather than saturated, the selection of figures called "political class." The Coordination mass fixer speech and almost mathematically Alliance to lash with all the power and energy. Both coalitions were absent for reasons not to do what they did, it is clear that "no reason for any accommodations, but reasons were much more than electoral and ideological opportunism is only part of the play of the current Chilean politics.
my interest not to applaud the actors involved or to comment on which of the two sides had the best theatrical performance. As fair, in my opinion, is to look at the founding of the speech substrate, the design of profiles and shapes society and independent of the carve-up and benefits that some will progress, and I have no doubt that no letter or word or phrase by Dr. Bachelet is not a scream from the rooftops that in Chile things are not going to change. Salmon dedicated to offering, this time supported to overcome the health crisis they face. Unqualified support to the hydroelectric project that are necessary Aysén to give effect to the energy demand of export development. Resources -40 million dollars for the country's image and thereby strengthen Chilean exports are mainly large companies that do not exceed 1% of them.
For the middle class and poor as usual, words of good breeding and placebo effect. Grant to purchase electric motors for SMEs; free PSU, personal computers for poor children featured; bond of 20 thousand dollars for poor pensioners, and so on.
Not that I look bad this kind of royalty, the welcome and much-but they do not change the character of the country project that we have submitted and that is why this piece of speech is but a guarantee that there is nothing to expect from this government. Only three things to include: maintaining the educational model embodied in the LGE that guarantees profits in education, recognition of the need to improve the conditions in which workers negotiate but nothing more than words, and in the municipal budget will continue the problem the vast inequality.
Marcel Claude, an economist.
0 comments:
Post a Comment