The unemployment figures for August 2013, contrary to what the ruling party and the press at the service of power want us to believe, are probably the worst since the beginning of the crisis. Beyond the false ...
The unemployment figures for August 2013, contrary to what the ruling party and the press at the service of power want us to believe, are probably the worst since the beginning of the crisis. Beyond the false smile of Mrs. Cospedal announcing "the best unemployment data for August since 2000", beyond a government that puffs out its chest and haughtily and manipulatively throws in our faces the decrease of 31 people registered in the INEM. Statistics are there to be analyzed, and those of this last August, as soon as one scratches a little beyond the agreed-upon makeup of the PP, prevent any smile and give much to think about and, above all, to get angry about.
The key question is not how many people have stopped registering in the INEM queues, but how many jobs have been created and how many have been destroyed. In short, are there more or fewer unemployed today? The answer is simple: if one introduces the data of registrations in social security into the analysis, one can see that not only has employment not been created, but it has continued to be destroyed; specifically, 99,069 fewer people hired; is this a paradox? Clearly not, nor has the government, despite its crowing, managed to stop the destruction of employment, nor has the labor market stabilized, nor other lies with which the press of power sweetens the bitter reality.
The phenomenon is evident and clearly explainable; there are simply two factors that affect the fact that the unemployment figure does not rise. The first is that there are more and more long-term unemployed who, since they are not entitled to any benefit and are convinced that being registered as unemployed is useless for finding work, simply stop doing so. The other factor that distorts the real unemployment figure is a growing migratory process, both of South American immigrants returning to their countries and of emigration, particularly of the most highly trained young people who realize that the labor future in the Spanish State is non-existent.
In this sense, the unemployment figures for August 2013 are not to be happy about in the slightest, nor do they allow a minimum glimmer of hope. On the contrary, they are the result of widespread discouragement, of the loss of faith of young people in the possibility of building their future where they were born and, in short, the photograph of the absolute failure of the PP government.
However, the joy and carelessness of Mrs. Cospedal and the government of which she is a part make one think that they follow the philosophy of Susanita, Mafalda's friend, who when Mafalda tells her that "The poor should be given shelter, work, protection and well-being," she replies, "Why so much, wouldn't it be enough to hide them?"
