It is slefishness
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It is selfishness, it is lack of solidarity. Once, walking through one of the natural parks of the Andorran Pyrenees and already started all this separatist process, we were coupled an individual who lived in Switzerland but of Catalan origin. Absolutely favorable to independence asked us how could it be, that being from Madrid we did not want to become independent too, since we contributed to national solidarity even more than Catalonia. "Spain steals us" in the Madrid version. Obviously, there are no separatist movements in Madrid to this day, but it is also true  that once I put the issue of fiscal balances to justify
this separatism as an argument, the question arose: what then? If we
contribute so much, how would we go if we stayed with all that money? I
thought of hospitals and health centers, roads, dependency law,
residences ... Once the question was asked and think about what that
money investment would mean, the following was doubt. On the basis of
what that money was mine? Our? Only from Madrid ...?No kidding. Have you heard about the ecological footprint? It is the amount of land that a specific territory would need, to generate all the necessary resources to sustain the consumption of that territory. That is to say; Madrid and its population do not have enough land to grow food to feed about seven million people. Not enough meat, or raw materials of almost any kind, but it's literally not even air ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint To exist and function, Madrid would need an extension of land of almost 20 times. With a territory of 20 times the current one would have the capacity to be self-sufficient in terms of resources. Thanks to the fact that Soria has forests and not industries, to which the Levant or the South have fruit gardens and Aragón, we drink the water of Jarama, Alberche, Lozoya ... We take away others from theirs and ours almost not we distribute, in addition to dirty it and pour it back to the Tagus river for example, full of shit so that from Madrid onwards they swallow it ... Madrid exists and produces thanks to the resources that are provided from outside the province. It is enough to take a walk through Mercamadrid at dawn, to see where the food comes from ... And what is produced in the Madrid community is profitable and it gives Madridns food because it is sold outside. In short, in Madrid we produce thanks to those outside and sell precisely to those who sent us their resources to be transformed ... How will I think that those taxes or benefits are only for the people of Madrid? What kind of short-sighted person would it be if he believed that? Does Castilla rob me? The oxygen that we breathe here and burn in the industry maybe they give it to us ... If in Madrid Galician fish is eaten, what conditions would it reach us or when would it reach us, if there were no decent motorways in other communities? If a person from Madrid wants to go to Valencia for four days, would it be worth leaving if he needed one day and another day? Or will you prefer a high-speed train that leaves you there in a couple of hours? And once you travel to Murcia or summer in Asturias, you want the hotel to be in condition, that the local roads allow you to visit these charming villages or that a doctor will treat you with decent means if you get sick there ...  To remain as a Madrilenian with all the resources, would make me live in
a golden cage. Madrid can be improved, but I can not complain about
infrastructure and resources. If as soon as I wanted to leave the
community I would find roads without maintenance, hospitals without
resources, buildings to fall, obsolete trains ... How small my world
would be! How sad and how scarce! If I can not share my well-being with
others, what good is it?I prefer to be well and that others are also to be great and others bad. Do you know how much is the ecological footprint of Catalonia calculated? They are about 8 times their territory. Multiply the Catalan territory by 8 and be surprised by the result. Spain steals us acquires another dimension, right? It's not about managing your resources, it's not about a better disposition of money, it's not about doing it better. Corruption in Catalonia has nothing to learn from the rest of Spain, but can even teach. Catalonia stole itself and then blamed others. Now they want everything. If I declare myself independent, I will expropriate the properties of the State and I will not have to give anything in return. Yours is mine and mine is for me. By the way, the economic argument of separatism to stay with our resources, is the same as saying that they go for example, Andalusia and Extremadura. That said, it's uglier, is not it? But it is still the same. It is called selfishness. |