For more than four years, the current Spanish government has been approving norms that go into effect and change within several weeks. It has made plans on impulse, responding to economic activity and employment.
It has tried to do away with the hidden economy. Now, after profligate spending and significant debt and facing issues with public construction including what has already been started, it is not finding a way to be done with public administrations that are in arrears.
Nonetheless, with the timely support of smaller political parties in congress, it is running out its term while the assessors and ministers are placing themselves in one or another place. It is said that their work is focused on getting past the crisis.
There is a key to politics in Lenin?s book What Is to Be Done?, and action, far from getting immediate results, is affected by the timing. A government that loses votes and is running out of time will struggle to believe in itself and begins to create false beliefs.
This plays out fully when resources are scarce and there are no magic wands and no rabbits left in the hat.
Translated and Edited in English by Brandon Dyches y Jose L. De Haro (joseluisdeharo@eleconomista.es)
