[by Juan Luis Calbarro and Julian Ruiz-Bravo]
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Simon Ward in his book Chester. A History that in 1849 the Rev. William Massie founded in this northern English city of Architectural Society, Archaeological and Historical. In addition to collecting Roman and promote the restoration of the beautiful city's urban fabric, Massie worked to extend the membership of the organization, as well as archaeologists, architects, clergy and rigor, ladies, shopkeepers, clerks and artisans. Those citizens who understand creating a research center as an important asset to the community, financed with fees reaching an adventure today. The consequence is that Chester is now one of the best cities in the world have been worth the archaeological remains available, making them the hub of a great city planning and a better tourism policy. Chester is a thriving city thanks to the strength of its civil society.
In Spain, the association is a kind of crappy windows: an adventure that is undertaken only if there is scope to milk the public purse. What do you want to start a archaeological society? Well before nothing speaks to the council and the director of the branch as to whether the fund. What do you want to mount a neighborhood association or an NGO? We subsidies. "Unions? The State is responsible, through "courses" and grants a number ... What do you want to organize an employer? For, paradoxically in organizations that tend to brag about liberalism, also considered a government obligation to provide "aid." What to do theater? Well, the government will ask for money, in the form of scholarships, awards or grants, the author, the company, the owner of the premises, the editors and the public to go see him, because everyone assumes that culture, without public money, does not survive. What do you want to publish a newspaper? There Munir institutional advertising. What you want, in general, earn a living? In Spain we have twice as officials in Germany, even though it doubles the population of our country is a way of subsidizing the existence, even at the expense of efficiency and freedom.
The sad result is that in Spain, associations can not lead or anything worth defending, and that a good part of the business is imbued with the same spirit. Neighborhood associations and oenegés are heavily politicized, ie, they are slaves to the parties that bear the cost. Theatre and art in general (not to mention the film) are in absolute decline, because instead of following the good example Anglo persist in the error very Mediterranean in Roman patronage and praise the chief, with the majority of artists are beings well distant from the free-thinking, and sometimes even the thought. From unions what they are going to tell all who do not know English, no one believes and to defend the interests of workers, as no doubt be concerned to do if depended entirely on membership fees ... And we know that the press serves the interests of large media groups and, therefore, granted the parties that televisions, radios and institutional advertising. Special case is that of publishing in Catalan, Basque and Galician, who have given up entirely to the proceeds of their sales in return null fat subsidies because, with few exceptions, have preferred the crappy editing business in Catalan on the honor professional editing quality as if one were incompatible with the other. And especially bleeding the associations of "defense identity" as Obra Cultural Balear and other parasites that the state raise the money to fight it, with the complicity of our politicians and local autonomous all parties. Spain is inexplicable. And where you can go to Spain to stop this crazy picture? It is clear that the state should plant both our partners and European rivals. It is necessary to put a lid once and for all this terrible bottomless pit because, besides the huge expenditure which rest on the shoulders of taxpayers, has shown few additional results.
Faith in this sham of associations, whose only real effectiveness refers to the proper channeling of the perks, has much to do with religion, leave, therefore, to justify such an ocean of subsidies, quite unworthy of strong partnerships who trust in themselves, must be part of any secular approach to politics. And the bloodletting that is for pockets of taxpayers could be halted if a government without complexes take only a few findings: first, that any organization requesting grant financial autonomy previously justified beyond doubt, second, that any subsidy is limited to a percentage to study (maybe third or below, and except as determined by common sense) of the total cost of the subsidized project, thirdly, that the execution of any project funded is subject to periodic inspection (somewhat strict and not the joke Today they are often applied in regional areas and especially local) by the administration concerned; room of any subsidy is justified under the lingua franca of the project or make it a requirement for granted, just as such is not with religion or race. The huge amount of resources that would be released in Spain if he was so they would pay from government research centers and social services whose effectiveness would be higher than the vast constellation of other mediocrities oenegés and we suffer. World- Day Baleares. Digital Journalist.
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