Foundations, reasons for mistrust
Why is there no confidence in broad sectors of Basque society in this Kutxabank privatisation process? Fundamentally, because in the last two or three decades the direction of the financial world has been geared towards the search for savage profit, which has led to the serious economic crisis that has been going on since 2008. Most of the analyses of the crisis have mentioned that the financial world was too free and that it was essential to redefine its course and to establish greater control of the public authorities over the new bases. However, this does not exist and the strength of the financial world has not allowed the public authorities to lead the ethical and economic refoundation. There are many examples of this. Now, for example, nine EU states have postponed the entry into force of the Tobin tax until 2016 and the tax on financial transactions could be one-tenth of what is planned (from 0.1% to 0.01%).
The closest causes of distrust are many. For example, the PP and the PSOE have dismantled the network of Spanish savings banks: first, inside, with the management of household savings banks in Spain in the brick bubble; and after the catastrophe, putting the remains that remained in the hands of the large banks, and dedicating public money to the rescue of the financial world.
In the Basque boxes, three out of four responded better to the explosion of the financial bubble, but not without serious consequences: the brick also hit hard and the remodeling of the sector has led to the closure of many jobs and offices. But there is also the end of the fourth box and the disaster of the can feed the current lack of confidence.
The attitude of the NIP also generates suspicions. He has insisted that the conversion of crates into foundations is a process prescribed by the European Union and the Spanish Law, yes or no, but he has not denounced this process – such as the LOMCE, for example – and has not shown or argued its disagreement. On the contrary, it has sold the process as an opportunity, recognizing that the law drives privatisation, but that there will in fact be no changes in the spirit of the boxes, based on the guarantee of the control of foundations in a group of trusted people. But if in the control of the patrons of the boxes are the pp and the PSOE that have disarticulated the network of Spanish boxes, how can we not think that the fox has been put to the care of the chicken coop?
The legendary book Le capital au XXI e siècle (Capital in the twenty-first century) by the French economist Thomas Piketty is the basis on which the distribution of wealth is becoming more and more inadequate. To this end, it has put on the table a gigantic analysis carried out in the most developed countries in the world over the last century and a half. Among other things, he says that in the last 150 years the economy has grown 1-2% a year and the financial world 4-5%. And he stresses in his conclusions: “The story of wealth distribution is, in essence, a very political story that should not be limited to just economic mechanisms.”
The strength of the financial markets today is the greatest of the last century and a half. The crisis and the solution come from his hand. How can we hope that a group of 15 people will endure these pressures better than the General Boards or the Basque Government itself? The truth is that very little has been heard about the alternatives, but the current course of the Basque boxes is terrible.
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