“The magic formula for anyone who opposes pension reform is the budget deficit,” said French President Emmanuel Macron. This is exactly the formula that Spain has adopted, despite all the evidence to the contrary and the enormous social chasm opening up under our feet. With the onset of a technological revolution – Artificial Intelligence is the latest representative of this process – and the profound restructuring of the geopolitical weight of nations – let’s recall Xi Jinping’s words in Moscow last week – the socialist government chose to resort to the following methods: to untie the Gordian knots that were hindering the country’s momentum and thus inflationary indexation of pensions instead of trying to mitigate the deterioration in workers’ living standards. The additional 15,000 million euros to be allocated to this course – and the next and the next … – to close the gap caused by the rise in CPI, is paid for, not for this, but by creating a double gap – one for deficit and debt – and Public Administrations in the country’s numerous leaving it without resources to face its lack. Most urgent because of its social weight are public housing, both owned and leased. Without affordable homes, the gap between owners—or heirs—and those who don’t becomes insurmountable. Much has been rightly said about the fall in the relative weight of wages to explain the crisis of the middle classes, and of course there is something to it; however, it is in the real estate bubble that the main reason for the class vacation is focused. Without affordable housing, there is no possibility of starting a family, saving money or starting personal and professional projects. The issue is not only access to housing, of course, the absence of an industrial policy; The difficulty of applying to different Public Administrations – as anyone wishing to make an appointment can attest; lack of investment in health, education and science; forgetting about the defense or maintenance of forests and historical and natural heritage, etc. 15,000 million euros will accumulate from year to year whose sole purpose is to distribute the costs of an undoubted crisis in order to win elections, tell the truth to voters, prepare for the future or heal a country.
Macron is right in wanting to reform pensions in France, and Sánchez is clearly wrong in financing a particular situation. The difficult balance that political parties strike between the short-term and the long-term, easily yielding to the demagogic appeal of election expectations (which is understandable), is one of the main reasons for the deterioration of the quality of democracy and the weakening of debate. .general. It is to rule on behalf of everyone who is solid, serious, responsible, without distinction, thinking not only of the present but also of the future. What is concrete, what is serious, what is responsible is not to pay our children and grandchildren the final bill of current prosperity, but to rule by considering the great covenant between generations on which societies and countries are based. The other is irresponsibility. And also a slow but inevitable impoverishment.