Someone posted this sunday a video in which there was a long line of people waiting for the distribution of food by a neighborhood association. The unpresentable Juan Carlos Monedero He took the opportunity to practice one of the most common exercises in his party, such as using the poor to thrive in politics. Or simply to get easy applause from your parish. “While you take pictures of yourself (Isabel Díaz Ayuso), your people are hungry. In Madrid. Not in Venezuela“, wrote.
The length of the row provides a good overview of the magnitude of the economic crisis that has made its way in recent weeks in the shadow of the pandemic, which threatens to generate even greater sleeplessness than those of the ‘great recession’ of 2008 and to destroy the already starving Spanish middle class.
It goes without saying that the images of those who waited for food were used by some to keep their lives alive. political wars, because if the parties and the social groups of this country are specialists in anything, it is in using the victims of shield and, at the same time, of throwing weapons. Few are reluctant to hide behind the dead or the disinherited to win easy applause or demand the umpteenth reform of the Penal Code.
Surprise at the gatherings
The most popular morning gatherings expressed this Monday their surprise at the proximity and abundance of misery. How could we not have noticed before? It seems that there are poor among the parties on the balconies, the hospital choreographies, the rainbow mosaics and the government press conferences in which practically 150 deaths are celebrated daily, because they are few compared to those that were registered a month ago. Wow.
Illuminated by the heat of the spotlights, the people around them may not be able to see the iciness with which the crises land on those who survive on the bare minimum, which are many more than the media show.
Journalistic companies tend to forget them to concentrate their efforts on recounting the details of the activity of their payers, who are their advertisers, and in exposing each one of the points of the sterile dialectical battle that is fought in the Cortes Generales and in the headquarters of the parties. Between gilding the pill for funders and exaggerating the flaws of those who don’t, there is hardly any time left to talk about real life. And of the poor, of course.
How could we not realize before? There seem to be poor among the balcony parties, hospital choreography, and rainbow mosaics
The phenomenon is explained in a masterful way by the film Brexit: the uncivil war. It is about the strategy followed by the supporters of the rupture between the UK and EU in the weeks leading up to the referendum on June 23, 2016. Its strategists realized that there was a significant percentage of the British population that had been ignored for many years. He belonged to the lower social strata, at whose door neither congressmen nor journalists used to knock. The latter, in such a case, to exaggerate the conflicts that affected them, driven by the sensationalism.
Listening to the protesters who were speaking this Monday caused amazement and confirmed that they are not very aware of what happens at street level. Or they don’t want to tell it. First, by attributing the poverty of a part of the population to what happened in the last weeks, when, really, there is a part of the citizens who never reached the Recovery. In fact, in 2007 the rate of people at risk of poverty was 19.7%, while in 2018, in the midst of the expansionary cycle of the economy, 21.5%.
It seems that a part of the media has a hard time decoding the headlines and making sure that the macroeconomic data they plummet onto the asphalt. It expressed the Airef does few dates that the GDP national will decrease 8.9% in 2020 and will only grow 4.6% in 2021. It is enough to subtract the first amount from the second to get an idea of the suffering that this situation will cause in companies and workers.
The thing could get even more cloudy, because in case the health situation worsens and we have to be confined again for a few more weeks, he set the drop in 11.7%.
The independent tax authority predicted that the debt will shoot up to 124%, as well as that the deficit will ostensibly increase and collection will decrease. In other words, it brought us a little closer to Argentina than let them Peronists of the unbearable government they make suspect. And what is worse: the Airef appreciated the risk that the 30% of those affected by Temporary Employment Regulation (ERTE) files go to the street.
Perhaps the tails of food banks, of which some are so surprised – and that they have tried to use – are currently much smaller than they will soon reach.
Perhaps the tails of food banks, of which some are so surprised – and that they have tried to use – are currently much smaller than they will soon reach.
If this problem is disturbing, the solutions proposed by these are no less so. postin tertullians, in direct thread with the propagandists of the Government, because basically they happen to increase the public cost up to unsustainable limits. Perhaps to avoid the social outbreak that is sensed when the plight of the population increases – even more. Or to blame Brussels when it forces to put the scissors in exchange for guaranteeing liquidity.
There are many more voices asking subsidies everywhere and suggest the need to increase the tax burden on incomes higher than those that speak of incentivizing entrepreneurship and supporting SMEs, because it is work, and only work, the true ‘social shield’ of citizens, and not the populist measures it promises Pablo Iglesias.
The journalism of the queues is surprised and will soon be alarmed by itself, because it is clearly unsustainable to exercise a profession that consists of telling reality … and being further from it.
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