Few times a state politics behaves in way so ignominious
and false how he behaves the politics and the politicians national Spaniards
with the Catalan identity, I believe that I am right in affirming that in the
western world, there is not in any place a same situation in that a state and
its politicians, to sow and cultivate the seed of the dislike and almost the
hate among its governed, during years and years. In Spain the centralism of the
state and of their politicians of having either been in the last dictatorship
or in the current democracy, it opposes a ferocious and almost visceral
discrimination systematically, in front of the nationalism of a region, at the
moment Spanish, like it is Catalonia.
The situation that Catalonia lives in Spain reminds me
the "Cinderella's" story they remember - once in very distant times
there was a great gentleman (Kingdom of Aragon) that had a very dear and
beautiful daughter to which tried like a princess (Catalonia) one day the great
gentleman you case for interest with a great lady (Castile) with the idea of
forming a much stronger and richer family, each one of the contracting parties
contributes the marriage wealth and children but I eat in the story the rich
and powerful it died and the princess its daughter is under the care of her
stepmother and this you behaves as such I put in a corner it in the kitchen and
transformed it into maid.
The story in the reality is not such a story, neither
there are fairies godmothers neither there are princes to dance and to fall in
love in the reality there is a dominant nation that toils in continuing using
to the figured one ashen as to a bad and ingrate stepdaughter and he leans on
in some totally false foundations, but very well basted by the force of the
centrality of the state that dominates with its power the public opinion, with
he believes it opinion tendencies that falsify enlarging or minimizing made of
the reality of the relationship among the two cultures, the Spaniard and the Catalan,
being the first of these falsehoods denying the own existence of an own and
older Catalan culture that the own Spanish nation.
It is not the problem that we have and let us use an
own language, it doesn't care that our form of seeing the things is a different
point, he doesn't have importance that here the bullfights have been
prohibited, etc., the only thing that it cares in fact is that Spain could not
maintain its economic status in the European context, if for those things of
the life, Catalonia becomes independent economically and let us no longer say
physically of Spain. He and the last governments and futures know or they
realize quickly that Spain could not be sustained without Catalonia and on the
contrary Catalonia if it would rot, already not to stay, but growing
enormememente without Spain hit to the back.
I don't know that the politics and the Spanish
governments that persist in denying an evidence until the end of ending up
opposing win to almost the whole Spanish society, against the Catalan who we
sustain together with the community of Madrid better or worse to whole Spain.
This is the reality Spain, the imperial one, the centralist, the conqueror,
that that is "a big and free", cannot support to depend on a region that
stays strong in some beliefs and different national identity that it doesn't
assume as own the imposed global nationality, and that in spite of this
insubordination, it cannot do without of their capacity and economic,
venturesome, and nationalist force. This and not other motivations are the true
of the Catalan nationalism.
And this statement this position is to countersign him
with data and for we will review it the reality of the Spanish economy. Alone
there are three regions that are at the present time born taxpayers to the
Spanish public treasure. These regions are: Madrid, Catalonia, and Balearic,
all the other ones, (except Basque country and Navarrese that we all know they
go for free) they are receptors, that is to say they pay their taxes and then
the state returns them more than what you/they have paid, with the purpose of
being able to maintain its daily development, this difference comes from the
taxes of these three regions net taxpayers.
If they allow me then the license, it is clear that in
fact Spain economically speaking is Madrid and Catalonia, (I omit Balearic
because their size although contributive is very small) since both communities
are almost even as for GDP and Inhabitants, we can say hypothetically that each
one half Spain supports. And arrived here, is it clear the reason of the
problem that Spain has with the Catalan nationality and if one day these
Catalan that don't want to be Spanish get it? That will make with our "a
big and free" Spain.
He understands each other this way everything they
don't find it, and it is understood because alone it is attacked to the Catalan
nationalism, and not for example to Basque. The thing this white, Basque don't
enter in the economic game, incomprehensibly but it is this way, therefore to the
purists of the Spanish nation, he gives them same that makes, but Catalonia is
another thing, Catalonia he pays and a lot and this yes it is important this
cannot get lost.
