Ideas to save 20 million €

On monday, Mr. Zapatero, the president of the Spanish government, presented the Economic Report of the President of the Government. There are some aspects to highlight. The first is, although there is an economic crisis in Spain, he still refuses to use this term and now is talking of serious difficulties. Another nice term. This remember me that maybe Mr. Zapatero has listen lastly to Supertramp, and to their record “Crisis. What crisis?”, and applies this to the Spanish economy.

Secondly, he announced the reduction of the offering for public work on a 30%. The real thing is that, on the last three years, the public workers increased on a 29%, but on the autonomies on Spain. This is out of the scope of the central administration, true, but, at the end, the Spanish government will pay for this, due to the compensation mechanisms that exists on the State of autonomies.

Associated to this, he will not increase the salary of the high scales of the public workers, the managers. This is a good measure, taking into account that the number of that “managers” has increase on a 55% since he is governing (or doing as he governs) Spain.

And, most ridiculous, he will reduce the public expenditure on… 20 million € (20 M€)! This is the great initiative of Mr. Zapatero. Well, if this is his only way to reduce substantially the public expenditure, I can give him more hints to do so:

1. Eliminate the economic office associated to the President of Spain. It is doing nothing but not assessing the Spanish president.
2. Reduce the initiatives to remodel or refurbish places where Mr. Zapatero and his family will go on vacation.
3. Eliminate (I know you are doing some exercising on this) the expenditure on the international summits by sleeping at home.
4. Minimize the initiatives of your government on modifying books. Adding words to the Spanish Dictionary implies to issue more copies, with the waste of paper.
5. Eliminate the public publicity campaings that add nothing to the Spanish citizens but just propaganda.
6. Eliminate the acts with the actors, actresses, singers and all that people.
7. Talk to the members (he-members and she-members) of your government to reduce the expenditure on suits and clothes.

Hope this helps.

~ by gerenton on June 25, 2008.