David's Group Opinion

IS DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS?

The democracy systems which make the government represent the opinion of the population, but nowadays they are not doing this.

Democracy is in crisis. Money can corrupt everything and parties say whatever they need to obtain votes and get the government. That makes the states not to work properly because they govern for the money and not for the people. So earlier or later, the democratic system will collapse, because people don´t feel represented by their governments.
The Europe union is pressuring Spain to apply the rescue but this means the privatization of many services. Taxes are raising, they are cutting health and education. So there are so many demonstrations and protests because a part of Spanish population won´t be able to pay their health if the government private that.

 

WHAT´S GOING ON IN SPAIN?

Since the burst of the Spanish housing bubble, Spanish economy has headed downwards and it´s getting worse and worse. Europe should be worried about what´s going on in Spain, because Spain is not Greece. The economy of Greece, for example, was too small and it was far from the zone of the fourth largest economies, but Spain is very near that zone and that means that if Spain finally requires a bailout it will drag all the nearby countries, because Spain is a major economy that is slowing down very time faster and faster. So we can deduce that the direction of the economy and the democracy in Spain is still very young.

 

REAL DEMOCRACIES NOW?

No, absolutely not. Because the economical voracity of the governments, companies, banks, etc… are making a materialist world in which the principles of the democracy were the human rights, now it is the money.

Because in addition this crisis apart from being an economical crisis is also a crisis of a leak of principles that affect to all the institutions of the state. So that if we want the crisis to be ended we have to start by giving back all those major principles to the institutions. One another thing to do is that the politicizes depend on the citizens and not do all they want only they allowed to do the best for the citizens and their rights.

 

ARE OUR LEADERS INDEPENDENT?

No they are submitted to the banks and the leaders of the other countries like Germany.

So we can deduce that those who rules the world are the banks, the money, the markets and the big companies.

The governments are puppets of the global markets because the ones who´s really ruling are the banks, big companies and all the other things that we mentioned before. So that confirms that the governments are governing for money and not for the people.

 

GROUP CONCLUSION

We think that Spain should have never abandoned the peseta because now if you compare the prices of the same things in Euros and what they were in pesetas, like in pesetas things were cheaper than in euros. The government made a mistake because when Spain went into the European Union they paid the salaries of the Spanish employers before the euros. Also we think that entering in the European Union meant a change because of which Spain which is in crisis obtains the help of the other countries of the European Union.

The opposition of the actual party, mainly led by the socialist party with the complaints of people and demonstrations and strikes are trying to stop the sudden budget cuts and new laws such as the new laws on education or health care that are being approved without previous debate in the parliament which implies that the government isn´t carrying out some of the articles in the constitution referred to the separation of powers and over all, the right of people´s political power and rights for which we´ve been fighting since XVIII century.