By Pedro Calvo, National Deputy (MC) and Laura Echezarreta.- A narrative is consolidated from the government that delegitimates the State as an instrument of development and social equality. The emptying and dismantling of fundamental public bodies and entities is privileged, which are essential to promote an innovative productive network, territorial integration and social cohesion ..
We must bet on transformation and improvements, banish corruption, inefficiencies and structural problems. However, this requires building an efficient democratic state and generator of opportunities. Not your annihilation.
To achieve this, we cannot expel the human capital formed with the effort of all Argentines during generations. In short, the adjustment to which it is currently points out does not modernize or speed up the system, but only promotes concentration and delay.
Every day the situation of the Garrahan hospital becomes more dramatic. To the low salaries and labor precariousness of doctors, residents and all health personnel, an intimidation policy and threats are added. Resource scarcity endangers the entire public health system. Similar panorama is going through the Posadas hospital.
The proposal to replace internships with scholarships not only implies loss of rights, but compromises attention in all hospital guards. To this is added the dismantling of government programs linked to health: the enia in the unintentional pregnancy in adolescence, the reduction of the sexual and reproductive education program, and the cutting of PAMI benefits.
Recently, the Government eliminated subsidies to the hemophilia foundation – with 80 years of experience -, putting the care of 4,800 patients at risk, and announced the suppression of the National Cancer Institute.
Scientific and technological dismantling
The restructuring of INTA and INTI, far from promoting improvements in scientific research applied to agriculture and productive sectors, is destroying technological support and assistance to regional economies and SMEs.
Conicet’s definance and the proposal to reform the Usinas de la Libertad Avanza seek to eliminate the researcher career, migrate projects to the private sector and exclude the social sciences of the agency.
A necessary reform for the challenges of the 21st century is not pursued, but its destruction and/or privatization. Improving Argentine competitiveness requires R&D, promoting institutions linked to productive sectors, also incorporating public universities.
It is the primary responsibility of the State to promote a positive synergy between laboratory, university, factory, field and community.
The announced postponement of the SG1 – arsat satellite – implies giving up a strategic development where Argentina led. In that direction, the project of incorporating foreign capitals in Invap, a company recognized worldwide for developing nuclear, aerospace, defense, security, environment and medical systems, progresses.
The decision to close the historical institutes – Decree 345/25 – does not know our democratic and popular struggles, as well as the value of historical memory. This decree also aims to dismember and cancel the autonomy of the National Commission of Popular Libraries (Conabip), an agency created by Domingo F. Sarmiento in 1870.
The consequences of the absent state
There is no competitiveness improvement without infrastructure investment; Increase accidents if we do not invest in routes and transport. And this has its social face: the Church warned it: “If the State retires, drug trafficking enters.”
Milei proposes a minimum state instead of a tax, financial, labor, pension and educational reform that requires dialogue with all political, academic and economic sectors.
The state co -opted for privileged interests fragment and impoverishes society. Naturalize injustice and cruelty, in a radicalization process that places it by questioning and facing the consolidated democratic pact since 1983.
Each doctor who emigrates, each scientist who leaves the country, each definanced program represents years of lost social investment. In contrast, intelligently transforming the State generates multiplier benefits: better education and health, greater productivity, applied research that improves competitiveness, modern infrastructure that attracts solid investments and institutions that provide predictability.
The proposal: an intelligent state
Faced with the false dilemma of “present state” versus “absent state”, we propose to build an intelligent state that combines efficiency, transparency and transformative capacity. A state that is neither omnipresent nor invisible, but strategically effective in its role in promoting national development and guaranteeing fundamental rights.
Source: Ambito
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