The upheaval was bound to come and the worst thing is that it has only just begun. The serious mistake of the government in delaying in recognizing the crisis, in subsequently telling citizens that it was a global problem and the nonsense conveyed some time ago that the worst was over (the green shoots) is nothing more than the absurdity of our political system that allows access to relevant public positions to people who are unqualified and unprepared.

If a professional, be it a doctor, engineer, journalist, architect or lawyer, has to do some higher programs of study to exercise his work Why is this not required, as a minimum, to the political class ? Wouldn't they even have to have a master's degree or be trained to access positions of high responsibility? In a normal business in our country, do people without adequate preparation have a place in management positions?

Spain is not only suffering the consequences of a world crisis from which other countries that did their homework at the time are gradually emerging. We have an internal crisis of competitiveness, the origin of which can be found in the following five points:

1) The speed of destruction of employment. We have reached 20% unemployment, double the European average rate. This is unsustainable.

2) The obsolete framework labor. It is essential to reform the Workers' Statute, whose origin dates back to the 1931 Republic. Is today's economic policy comparable to that of 80 years ago? As long as business fraud is allowed in the contracts of work and the legislation does not punish the laziness of the bad worker, it is impossible to improve productivity and to diminish absenteeism.

3) We are at the bottom of the productivity ranking in Europe. Spain is one of the countries with the longest conference and the lowest output per hour worked.

4) The percentage of absenteeism is alarming, well above the European average . According to the INE, in a country of 46 million inhabitants and a working population of 18.3 million people, 1.3 million employed people did not go to work every day in 2008.

5) We have a system educational that portends a discouraging future. Eighteen years is the age average of withdrawal of the programs of study and 75% of young people between 21 and 24 years old are no longer studying. Young people with few programs of study, some do not want to study or work (the ni-ni generation) and many want to live with the least commitment and effort. What a future!

Let them not tell us lies. Spain has a second crisis, autochthonous, which has nothing to do with the world crisis, the consequence of which is that we are not competitive. And now, unfortunately, we are starting the third one, the crisis of the management debt, caused by not having done our homework, by continuing to spend instead of undertaking essential reforms.

We had been warned (The Economist, the IMF, the European Central Bank) but according to our rulers, it was an external conspiracy, until they pulled us by the ears, like the disobedient and quarrelsome kid, and all that dialectic of "you are a catastrophist", "there is no problem here", "we have the best financial system" has given way to the recent cuts that are nothing more than the parrot's chocolate, because until drastic measures are taken to solve our problems of competitiveness and future, the approved cuts, besides not having to be the first ones, are insufficient.

It is obvious that we must tighten our belts, as when a family spends more than it earns, but it is an injustice to start with the weakest groups such as pensioners.

The politicians who are in government are the ones who have gotten us into this big mess, but for the rest of the politicians the recipe of "start by setting an example" also applies. There is no need for ministries, official cars, janitors, directorates, sub-directorates, boards, commissions, regional and county offices, advisors, meals in luxury restaurants and trips on class preferential. Exorbitant salaries, representation expenses, free disposal expenses and per diems are not enough. Put a solidarity salary and cancel many of their privileges such as collecting the maximum public retirement pension with just a few years in the seat. Change the regulations and put to produce many union freedmen. And the public money, which is not yours but of the people, use it in projects that generate wealth, these are not times to squander in expenses of laws of report historical, regional embassies, co-official languages in the chamber, unnecessary works and subsidies to the cinema, to name a few.

At Economics and values, crisis means adjustments and reforms. Make them as soon as possible by taking serious decisions. When you don't do your homework, you end up doing it out of obligation, late and badly. This is not catastrophism, it is reality.