Left wing confronted with the evidence of the need for budgets
The left is trapped by a stark reality: the support of the PSOE in Madrid, Isla asserted, has led to an agreement on reforming the financing system, but now they're praying for the budget to pass. And this is happening just when people's lives already face enough obstacles without having to endure the burden of electoral calculations in the name of a consistency justified by a difference that, until now, hasn't prevented clear collaboration.
Trump's word is worthlessBut it does come at a price, the price we all must pay for his decisions. Aware that The war with Iran has driven up oil prices and lowered stock markets.That is, that his voters have to pay more for gasoline and that his friends are losing billions in the stock market, Trump took the floor last night to say that The war is "virtually over" And that they are far ahead of the agenda they had set, that Iran "has already fired all it was supposed to fire." And Trump's words had the desired effect: the stock markets rose this morning and the price of oil fell. If this is a fluke that won't make a summer, Trump doesn't care. Yesterday he went for the coup, but he knows there are two things ordinary Americans hate: paying higher gas prices and having inflation erode their purchasing power, all because of a war that lacks the support of the vast majority. Consider that these days oil has reached its highest price in the last three and a half years, specifically in the summer of 2022, months after the war in Ukraine began, and that the cost of living is shaping up to be the major issue in the November elections. And we all know that when oil goes up, everything goes up.
He's playing a similar card, that of the economic crisis that the Iran war could end up causing. Illa's socialist government needs Esquerra to approve the budget to the vote in the Catalan Parliament next Friday. We are where we were, with the PSOE not verbalizing its commitment to the Generalitat collecting 100% of the Personal Income Tax, with the PSC not wanting to upset the PSOE, and with Esquerra trapped by the obvious: the PSOE's support in Madrid, Isla investigated, has been part of the agreement to reform the financing system, but now the reform of the financing system is being negotiated. And it is doing so precisely when people's lives already have enough obstacles without having to endure the setback of electoral calculations in the name of a consistency justified by a difference that, until now, has not prevented clear collaboration. It is time for Oriol Junqueras to make a decision.
Good morning.
