Blame it on the brick

I leave you with the latest platform, published on 22 February in the Journal of Navarra. Also you can download it in pdf by clicking here .

According to British newspaper said the Financial Times, only 10% of 347,000 million euros allocated by the EU to help its poorest regions have come to be disbursed. In addition, the British weekly said that certain abuses and irregularities in the use of the program. Among some of the irregularities is the money given to big companies like Nokia, IBM, Coca Cola or McDonalds, which were initially aimed at small and medium enterprises.

Given this information I can not help but be shocked: Coca-cola is a medium company? I'm sure it was a semantic error committed by the EU. It can not be that European funds earmarked for helping SMEs it is wearing one of the largest companies, like Coca-Cola and IBM. Yes, gentlemen. So then we miss the information provided by Social Security, according to which, in 2010, 264 companies closed every day in Spain, and most are not the construction sector. Of course, if the aid is defined as unusual is that not even the EU can count, and less with this type of abuse.

In this type of action is one explanation for the continuing increase in the unemployment rate, if all aid is aimed at large companies, there is no way to generate employment, for there is none. It is time to understand that to create jobs is to start by promoting the creation of small and medium enterprises, not continue to encourage large companies.

But this concept is far from being understood by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero from the moment they met with 35 large Spanish companies, she says, to bring solutions to the crisis. These solutions are carried taking from the beginning, with disastrous results, and so it goes. With these measures is shown where the interests are made both by our government and by the EU. Indeed, far from generating employment, and according to the Financial Times said, many of these big companies are making use of EU funds to move their factories to countries with cheaper labor forces even though this is expressly forbidden by Brussels. That is, not only deprive SMEs of aid they deserve, but large corporations use the funds to bypass EU laws to the bullfighter. So create jobs, of course, but apparently did not understand where he had to do it or knew it was forbidden. I do not know if these data are in the hands of the EU or turn a blind eye directly, but in any case are vandalism and crime. So I understand why many large companies do not suffer from the crisis. And while the EU and the Spanish government continue to carry this line of action, we will continue looking at unemployment rates, blaming the brick, the Madrid-Barcelona or Carmen de Mairena, which is better.    

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