Unnecessary government posts

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Award winning journalist Ines Aizpun, writing in today's AM column on Diario Libre's page two, says that if the posts of Presidential Minister and Presidential spokesperson do not need to be filled, just think of the savings that can be made by eliminating all the really unnecessary officials. She says that if those two posts, so close to the President and so obviously important, do not need to be filled, it is obvious that there are a few more that could be vacated. Without even counting all those vice-consuls, she said that the Ministry of Youth could be done away with, as just one example. Or all those who have to do with the fight against corruption, since they only investigate when there is a public outcry. Aizpun asks "Don't they do any investigating on their own?" The writer goes on to say that one can review the tax reform accounts from right to left, or they can call it a "correction" or adjustment or "a gun to the head." As long as the costs of the Metro are hidden in the budget and in our pockets, the government will have to keep disguising its name, she writes. She goes on to say that the government has not really said just how it is going to apply its promised austerity plan. She concludes: "But if they manage to convince us of the sincerity of their plans it will be because they show us the figures and solidify the concepts. But before all that, the government has to tell us what reform they are talking about. She says that it is curious that although this government's greatest success has been its economic team and its figures, it does not seem to have even an idea of how to apply the tax reform, or on whom. And they have control of both chambers!"

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