, wanting to support the doctrine of Parmenides on the illusory world of sense, he established his famous paradox of Achilles and the tortoise. The tragic Greek hero running against a tortoise which, by their vanity and excessive confidence in his speed, leaving substantial advantage. Zeno argued that Achilles in his aporia would never reach the tortoise, as long as there was space travel between him and her, the tortoise would have advanced a further distance.
Centuries later, the calculus desvencijaría falsídica paradox of Elea. But the elegant disciple of Parmenides' reasoning can draw a curious parallel with the endless economic crisis and the disastrous actions of the Government of Spain.
Zapatero, full of pride, love with himself, he denied the crisis first, he tried to endless dialectical intricacies hide later and finally blamed the bad guys (Bush, Aznar, "markets" and speculators) and prophesied his impending doom. In fact, almost went from denying its existence to ensure that he was referring. Flatly refused to fight, because that meant accepting and eat his words ( something that usually does not cost too , but in this case it because he knew that meant giving in to the "dictatorship of the market"). When I forced his hand, he did late populist measures.
During that time, not less than a year and a half, Achilles Zapatero has given a lot of advantage to the crisis, as the broker of the paradox was with the turtle. First in May and now again at the end of the year, Zapatero reluctantly and under tremendous international pressure has reneged on its much-publicized ideals to approve the measures that have been effective against crisis three years ago. Some of them involve only the removal of decisions that worsened the situation worse deficit (the supposed return of 400 euros by the Treasury, the 2,500 euros per child and the 426 euros for long-term unemployed, lethal force for the country very effective but at election for PSOE).
Lo and behold, when the mighty Achilles Zapatero has traveled this stretch of involves taking these measures both costs you take ... Turtle of the crisis has taken another stretch more, leaving his competitor again delayed .
And is that necessary actions and current May December have only served to buy some time and allow the risk premium cheaper English public debt with the invincible German bund. That is, do not get to tackle the crisis, only to continue funding a state that bleeds in the irresponsible waste of seventeen autonomous regions, as capricious and arrogant in their spending as beggars and victims in their demands for more money. Unfortunately
for us, and Zapatero is the heroic Achilles swift-footed and daring unparalleled crisis or a turtle is slow and calm, more like a herd of bison that used to come from the front, but now runs over us without mercy.
One of the essential characteristics of a good ruler is stay ahead of developments. Someday Zapatero should consider how the crisis has done the opposite. It has always been in tow, the first carried away by the stupid pride of "it could not be happening to him" and then not wanting to admit that he and his policies, far from a solution or vaccine, were precisely the problem severe, more dangerous strain of the virus crisis. Zapatero forced improvisation makes only a half-empty oxygen cylinder . It's about time running out, but we will keep under water when I do. What's next? Abolishing PER and its many substitutes? "Fewer councils? Layoffs of public officials? "Limit by law the government deficit as now proposed Rajoy?
All these measures likely in the future and those already taken, would have been a good protection against crises, or at least a good way to limit their damage five years ago, or at least to beginning of the current term, when the recent electoral victory legitimized a moderate reformist. Now, they're patches. The deterioration of the situation is such that what was effective is now only a jolt of electricity that stimulates transiently the dying. Just as a bone marrow transplant can save the life of a leukemia patient if done in time, but not when it is left that evil is unleashed widespread metastasis in many other tissues.
Zapatero will delay by three years at least. If Spain has a fit of lucidity, the most he can lose is the chair. The English, in the best case, we may have lost a decade.
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