Money Spent… Deficit…

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

What’s important isn’t only how much is spent, but when and on what.

The total deficit figures are so confusing! Figures for the central government and for the Autonomous Communities…

There’s been much bickering about the “deficit we’ve inherited” when often it’s the “deficit we created”; there were exclamations of surprise when it was discovered how much the city governments owe… when many people were actually well aware of the unpaid invoices that they had accumulated…

Let’s get serious. It’s not a problem of how much was spent, but when and on what. Because some of the expenditures were opportune and fitting, while others were inopportune and unsuitable.

One thing is what was spent for hospitals, healthcare centers, schools, universities, infrastructures… and quite something else what was invested in superfluous and sectarian installations.

Some of these investments warrant applause. Others deserve punishment.

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