Where is Portugal going? – ECO
The State is essential for a country to function, but the Portuguese State is a brake on growth. A vision that frees society and achieves a better state is needed.
Portugal is a country adrift, without noise and without anyone capable of putting it back on the right path. The numbers do not lie – who lie are those who manipulate them – and show a reality in which our country bends to the weight of the State and the ideologies that command it. The CDS congress that will take place this weekend could be an opportunity to give a concrete answer to this problem.
The numbers of the economy are not thought of according to the relative standard of living of the Portuguese, it is like a parachute that descends on which the direction it will go for sure, however much its vigor is determined to change, but no one know what your final destination is:
- In 2002, Portugal was the 16th most prosperous country in the EU, with 12 countries behind it. In 2021, Portugal was the 22nd most prosperous country in the EU, with only 5 countries behind it. Today, the standard of living of the Portuguese is just above what it was in the distant year of 2007, 15 years ago.
- In two decades, they saw their standard of living surpassed by 5 peoples – Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Poland and Hungary.
- The case of Lithuania is an example: in 2000, Lithuanians had a standard of living that was less than half of the Portuguese. Today they have a standard of living that is 20% higher than the Portuguese. How is it possible?
- But there is more: soon Portugal will be overtaken by 3 more countries – Romania, Latvia and Croatia.
- In 2026, Portugal will have been overtaken by a total of 8 countries from this EU alone, the result is all of António Costa, as there will be 6 peoples who during their support are more prosperous than the Portuguese.
- It is a “great” result, especially if we consider that Poles, Hungarians and Croatians had half the standard of living of the Portuguese and Romanians and Latvians had only a third of them.
- Today, a Portuguese traveling through Europe has to be very thrifty, as his income, which is relevant abroad, has gone from 72% to 64% of the average European level (values not adjusted for relevant prices). Soon to be of our life with friends of our respect, of – or because more significant than our level of support by money we would say.
numbers that speak
These numbers without any manipulation have a voice and say a lot:
- They demonstrate the rumor of decay into which the socialist helmsmen have put us. The Portuguese don’t owe the numbers, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t true. It just means that the Portuguese live their reality because they are daily anesthetized and confused with other matters with little or no observation.
- They explain why many, including many economists, value or want to end the use of GDP per capita to try to hide the “parachute descents” and other indicators that are administratively “kitchens” to measure the standard of living. Not by chance, they are all on the side of the power that these “brilliant” results obtained.
- They show consequences of terms more and more interventionist policies, delineated by “enlightened s”. The State spends today almost 4 times more than it spent in 1974 (given the size of the economy), which is a heavy legacy of the 25th of April.
This is what the CDS has to respond to at the congress it is holding this weekend. AND it is an answer that must be given if you want to avoid falling into politics.
The solution to this decadence is well known, but it goes against the ideological dogmatisms of the left, including many of those that undermine the PSD. Therefore, barriers to its implementation are many and powerful.
Neither the CDS nor the other parties that reject the dogmas of interventionism can continue to ignore issues that are for the future and, among them, they have one that stands out more and more: the centralizing State and fostering dependencies and clients. The more the state grows, the more our relative standard of living goes down.
The State is essential for a country to function, so a liberal vision that defends its irrelevance makes no sense. However, society is of great importance for the Portuguese State to transform itself into growth and development, and therefore a vision that frees and obtains a State is necessary.
And that vision must be based on a few principles: Eliminate State intervention, take care of free action and decentralize people and recover an attraction from the simple functioning of society. This is a necessary basis to unite and motivate the Portuguese and for the country’s rumor to change. This should be the basis for building the response that the CDS has to give to the Portuguese starting this weekend.