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Yo no estuve en la MoncloaI was not in the Moncloa
24 December 2010
Zapatero me not convened the meeting of November 27. Not invited me. Nor to me none of the more than 600,000 small and medium employers in the country. And of course, I was not. We were not. Thirty-seven were who they were. Three more and they would have been the forty major. Business leaders whose companies listed, exported everywhere, invest overseas, investigate, develop, innovate, and whose volume of business say that it is equivalent to 40% of Spanish GDP. The Crown jewels, are going. Big business which, incidentally, only provide employment for little more than 10% of workers not officials. Another 90% give work, if we can, the other 600,000. But of these, what things, not invited either.
It would have been able to choose any random. Of any sector. Anywhere in Spain. Perhaps an Andalusian farmer, or a Basque smelters, a Catalan manufacturer of components or a Madrid hotel entrepreneur. Any of them, having come, would have said you some things that you didn't say, surely, the almost forty main, because the almost forty not worry about the continuity of their business, not worry how to pay payroll at end of monthor traded the minimum number of freelancers. The nearly forty have no difficulties in financing despite being heavily indebted. They have no problem with the Bank because they themselves are banking or participated by it. The nearly forty have no fear that the multinational company for which they work to stop buying them, or request impossible prices or decide to relocate, because they are the multinational. They are what they call companies you tractor units, just that when they think they stop "traction" here for "traction" beyond as appropriate, as it is natural, to their interests.
And look at you by where their interests are not exactly the same as those of the small and medium-sized enterprises. It is more, many times their interests and those of these are just competing. But does this not say never anyone around the world, apparently, it is more natural that CEPYME, supposed representative of small and medium entrepreneurs organization, should be integrated in the CEOE, where sent by the way the almost forty, and some more. And that his newly-elected President, Jesus Terciado, recognizes himself as "a man of Díaz Ferrán," entrepreneur model where there and with whom insurance, insurance, are identified most of the small employers in this country.
What had you said you to Zapatero have been invited to the Moncloa on November 27?
But back to the Moncloa. Ah no, that we have not gone, not invited us. For not having not invited even Terciado, although it had only been to look good, so not to become so obvious the resounding and systematic neglect of SMEs by this Government and of all those who have preceded him. They were perhaps few canapes with that of budget cuts. Both better. Nor he would have said what they were not told others.
And you, what had said you you to Zapatero have been invited to the Moncloa on November 27?. I am interested in your opinion. It concerns us all. And therefore I dare to suggest to send your comments to my blog 'r point' in Interempresas.net. It may be a way to get to those concerned the voice of those who never are heard, which are every day in the trenches suffer the vicissitudes of a crisis that we have not caused and whose causes are not entirely outside some of the almost forty Yes were invited to la Moncloa.
