It is again a Diagonal, who in a documented article and written good confirms to us the suspicions that the increase of the retirement age is not because the pensions system does not last. It is simple and smoothly because it is necessary to promote the plans deprived of pensions. This affirmation is endorsed by important economists who do not submit to the voice of alarm of the world financial institutions like the IMF or the OCDE. That as we always know already they hit in his “exact predictions” – for example, those of the current crisis.
Pablo Elorduy, author of the article wonders why this alarm has put itself in the agenda mediática on the unfeasibility of the public pensions and nevertheless nothing is said about anything so important as it is the clipping promised by the government for 50.000 euros and for what form it will affect to the already approved budgets and to those of the futures four years.
To put fear to privatize the pensions The Government questions the viability of the pensions while he announces a clipping of the public expenditure of 50.000 millions only a few months after approving the budgets for 2010.First, the Government leaked the Document on Review of the Agreement of Toledo, later, he announced that there were moving back the most controversial measurements of the proposal that was going to send Brussels and, later, Maria Teresa Fernández of the Vega was clarifying that the proposal will happen for the river beds of the Social Dialogue. Finally the Secretary of Labor, the manager of lighting the alarms on the system of public pensions, doubted in the Congress that the Government is going to put “on the role” a measurement that has led CC OO and UGT to summoning a state mobilization on February 23.
This moves the debate to the Agreement of Toledo, signed in 1995 and “constituted by the agreement between the political forces and the social speakers”, as it means the Department of Labour in a report on the development of this agreement. The possibility of increasing the age for the retirement from 65 to 67 years and the increase of the period of time with which the pensions are calculated, there are the aspects most emphasized from a proposal that is “singularly antisocial”, in words of Elizabeth Otxoa y Mikel of the Source, teachers of labor law of the University of the Basque Country.
José Luis Carretero, member of the Institute of Economic Sciences and of the Self-management (ICEA) thinks that the mediation of the representatives of the Agreement of Toledo can do, in effect, that some of these measurements limit themselves “since there are representatives that for ideological reasons (like some trade union or party) or for reasons opportunists (PP) can prevent or, at least, hinder the enlargement of the retirement age”. For Daniel Albarracín, of the group of studies of Working Commissions, what demonstrates this proposal, which has been applauded by international organisms like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the Organization for the Cooperation and the Economic Development (OCDE), they are “the pressures of the financial system and of insurances to increase in the social forecast the weight of the private pension plans; to shape a mixed system”. The fact that the Spanish socialist party has doubted the system it obeys, for José Luis Carretero to whom the idea of that “putting fear of the population” is advanced in the “line of encouraging the pension plans that sell banks and financial organizations”.
Neoliberal assault
Between the organisms that sponsor that that lawyer Raúl Maíllo considers to be a “neoliberal assault to the pensions”, the OCDE protagonist plays a role. In 1990 this organization diagnosed that the industrialized countries will not be able to pay his pensions in the future as a result of the aging of his populations. Since the economist Miren Etxezarreta gathers in the book What pensions, what future, the impulse to the privatization increased from 1994 of the hand of a report of the World Bank, “that constituted the justification and the exit gunshot so that many rich countries were developing the systems deprived of pensions”.
In case of the Spanish State, the principal argument that there use representatives of the financial system like Rodrigo Rato, ex-general manager of the IMF, to encourage this mixed system and the progressive leeway of the system of pensions of capitalization (in which the money for pensions is invested in financial funds), is the aging population. Otxoa is opposed to this speech and of the Source: "The increase of the life expectancy does not owe both to the duration of life of the biggest persons and to the eradication of the infant mortality”.
As Otxoa remembers and Of the Source, according to the document of the Government, between 2009 and 2040, the life expectancy at the age of 65 will only increase in 2,5 years. According to the document presented by the Government, the increase of the expense in pensions will rise over 15,1 % of the Gross National Product in 2060, an increase that, for these teachers the public pensions system does not put in risk, “those who insist on the untenable character of this increase, they obviate that in the past the increases have been superior to those who today are foreseen without no economic catastrophe having taken place for this cause”. Also, they remember, the Fund of Reservation of the system of public pensions has thrown an important surplus in the period pre crisis and it will keep on producing it even after 2020:“ Only when the income for quotations is insufficient to face to the expense increase in pensions, what will not happen before 2023, it will be the moment to increase progressively the types of quotation to face to this expense”.
The clipping, covered
And while the debate on the viability of the pensions occupies the majority of the public debate, the clipping of the public expenditure that the Minister of Economy took to the City of London has not had so many aftereffect. An adjustment for 50.000 million euros for the next five years, which modifies the budget due and approved at the end of 2009. For the economist Julio Rodríguez this clipping points towards the desire of the Government to give an image of “budgetary rigor” before the debt markets. As Cartwright indicates, this takes shape already of the subfinancing of the public universities and threatens “the financing of the whole social salary, that is to say, the services and social service”.
I believe that in the article between what it is possible to read and what is made out there is cloth to be cut. Let's hope that the suit of the crisis should not have to pay the everlasting one, that round there the shots go
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