The Slavery Of The Century Xxi

“We cannot ask the young enthusiasm and motivation if society is not able to offer them the necessary conditions so that they can plan and develop their lives and their work with confidence and security in the future. Felipe de Borbon y Greece Prince of Asturias and Girona of the immense forest which daily offers us today, even at the risk of me reiterate the topic, I have returned to choose perhaps the most excruciating for any human being working age. Unemployment. How many times are we have you talked of green shoots? Many times will say us that the crisis was bottoming? Many times have we heard say that we began to climb? Many times have us false hope? And what is worse. Have how many times we believed all this because Spain did not deserve a Government that lie you? But there is nothing more final than the reality. And the reality is that once more, unemployment in Spain has continued to grow, reaching the highest figures of its history.

In the past month January, 130.930 workers went to their homes with the drama giving them morsels in the soul. We are approaching the five million unemployed. It could entangle me in the maze of figures, make multiple interpretations, argue it is not arguable, but I don’t want to lose myself in the coldness of numbers or percentages. It is much more important to delve into the moral significance of the facts, because the roof is a human being, not a numeral more lost in the marasmus of statistics; the standstill has name and surname; He is a person with inexcusable pressing needs, with life projects that now are truncated, in many cases forever; each row filling in the lists of unemployed, is a life with illusions, with aspirations that must not only be economic. Each line written in that damn book that never should have entered, is a tragedy, a sunken home, an existence, mutilated, often multiplied by two or three, because when a family member is mired in is terrible situation, not only affects him.