"Those who are paid unemployment insurance, I them put all clean forests". I heard often say a family businessman, now already retired, and - with different variations as to the specific activity carried out by the unemployed - this was one of those typical coletillas that abounded for some years in the gatherings of desktop, those of coffee, Cup, and pure, which closed the typical meals of entrepreneurs. Today this type of occurrences already not is the style, mired as we are in the atmosphere of political correctness.

But, without demagoguery and populism, something we have to do. I read in a newspaper that the month of may, the Ministry of labour of the Generalitat de Catalunya sent a letter to unemployed 8,000 of the province of Lleida, all of whom have previous experience in the agricultural sector, offering them a job in the campaign of collecting fruitbefore extending the quota of foreign immigrants. They responded only 1,000. To others it must seem them pick apples in full sun is a work unworthy of its status and probably offended, they decided to continue charging the 800 euros for the unemployed and drown their sorrows in the bar of the bar. 7,000 Colombians, Moroccans and sub-Saharan African is what they appreciate.

We have something to do. Unemployment benefit is a right recognized by the Constitution which becomes social security contributions and that, of course, nobody in question. But in parallel, always enforceable and rights required, must be the duties, is rarely invoked. It is not acceptable, both for reasons of moral nature as economic, than people that they are receiving a benefit for an objective fact, the do not have work, make effort to maintain this situation formally and continue collecting unemployment.

I do not mean to generalize. I know that among the millions of unemployed that are providing or subsidizing many what are going very wrong and make every effort to find work as soon as possible. But we all know plenty of cases of people who do not have the slightest interest in be contracted before exhausting the provision, or that are paid unemployment while working in the black economy, or that have voluntarily left the work but have agreed with the employer a wrongful dismissal to be eligible for the allowance. Everyone knows and everyone, employers and workers, us has been good. But it is untenable.

We will have to find ways to ensure that people who want to receive the benefit for unemployment to make some kind of activity on a mandatory basis, either formative in nature or in benefit of the community, including why not? clean forests. This would get a triple benefit: it would improve the training of unemployed persons, the community as a whole would benefit from the work done by them (perhaps would have less fire), and we would save a lot of money failing to pay benefits to the many - many - thatsuddenly, disappear from the lists of the INEM. Only victims, bars.

Reforms of this type are that we need if we want to address in depth our atavistic problem of structural unemployment, which now has become dramatically cyclical unemployment resulting from the severe crisis that we are suffering from. It must not be a Lynx to predict that a measure of this draft would reduce significantly our traditional attachment to the provision. That, indeed, it is only a variant of our growing propensity to be public administrations, called Government, Social Security, autonomous community, city or even European Union, who solve our problems. We are already unemployed, workers, entrepreneurs or rank-and-file citizens.

Gentlemen, we must learn to look for life.