The civic austerity

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The bureaucrats with more responsibility should win well
The civic austerity
By: Carlos Damián June 17, 2012
We have to reduce costs of the government's operation: AMLO
México. - The president of the managerial Coordinating Council (EEC), Gerardo Gutierrez Candiani (GGC), he declared, against reducing the wage of the high bureaucracy in the country, to consider that if smaller salaries are paid officials of smaller quality they will be had. During the presentation of the notebook legislative that the sector will promote in the following legislature, the president of the organism, GGC added that the revenues of the bureaucrats that more wins to diminish could also generate more corruption. "The officials that have bigger responsibility should be very prepared and very paid people, because if we exercise a where every time we pay they have less to those that more responsibility, so we will have managed people with the levels that we pay and not of the responsibilities that have", the executive sustained.

In such a way that when locating this aspect in an institutional environment that privileges to the big fortunes and that it is exasperated with the captive taxpayers, and in the public expense it is financed fundamentally with the contributions of the town, and with the resources of the oil rent, it can understand each other that the managerial consortia show indolence before the luxurious level of life and still living how the high bureaucracy’s sultans (of the Middle East), and defend their preservation and so the rising waste. On the other hand, the pretense of establishing a direct relationship among the revenues of the public servants and “the responsibility” that have is false when comparing the salaries of Mexican officials with those of its couples of other countries.

If the statement formulated by GGC was truth, it would be necessary to conclude that the responsibility of the own FCH, the governor of the Bank of Mexico, Agustin Carstens, and of the leadership of Public Security, Genaro Garcia Luna -whose monthly perceptions respectively are of 16 thousand 466.67,13 thousand 866.67, and16 thousand 266.67 dollars), they are superior to those of the presidency of Brazil, Dilma Roussef, or to that of the leaderships of the Federal Reservation of The States, Ben Bernanke, or to that of the Ministry of Defense of the country of the bars and the stars, Robert Gates who they perceive inferior wages to those of the mentioned Mexican public servants.

Nevertheless the declaration of the president of the CCE puts in perspective the privilege situation that the own managerial elites live in the country, beneficiaries of “special regimens” in fiscal matter, of all type of facilities for the differed payment of obligations and until of omissions in the collection for the federal government. The lack of government capacity or of will to charge taxes to privileged managers is even a recognized fact for the federal Executive, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa (FCH) who admitted in October of 2009 that “the companies that more they win difficult, difficulty they pay taxes in the country."

The republican austerity
The president of the CCE, GGC, said “we don't agree a lot (of the proposal), they would be savings not understanding and what we can generate is that having wages so low, we can have the contrary effect that in fact for those low wages they fall in other topics that they are those that we should attack. We have to make a combat to the corruption", he explains. “We don't ask that they give up none of their rights and instances that the law grants them, but yes we demand them not to move away from what they settles down", the CCE indicated in its deployed. The notebook legislative that the managers presented is integrated by 10 proposals in which one insists in the necessity of approving structural reformations as the labor one, the energetic and the that corresponds to the taxes, with object of accelerating the economic growth of the country.

It also thinks about an integral reformation to the public expense that allows an efficient and transparent assignment of the resources, as well as prices and public rates that promote the competitiveness and to avoid special taxes that distort markets. We’ll doing with concern that the lack of agreements is well what has prevailed in the Congress in the last half a decade, for reasons of electoral calculation, for visions of short term, because it has been privileged when putting before the particular interests, and of group or of faction about the interests of Mexico.

The reality is that the too big revenues of the high officials has not contributed in anything to have an effective, capable government, neither to eradicate the corruption in the public offices, and that the exorbitant wages, far away from turning off the appetite of the officials for the big sums of money, they have increased it - these officials have become a bottomless barrel -, they have increased it as it demonstrates the proliferation, in the environments Executive, Judicial and Legislative, as well as in that of the autonomous organisms, of appointment of all luck of employees of first level with offensive perceptions for an emaciated environment social for the on economic politicians in practical in fact for those who are remunerated with excessive generosity.

Before such a panorama, it is necessary that of who the incoming government, with independence heads it, adopt a politics of effective austerity that should begin exactly, for a moderation in the salaries of its main collaborators.(La Jornada, politica, p.p. 6 - 23, June 14, 2012). Segunda parte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFii0sC5EWM&feature=relmfu