Ayuso scholarships | Robin Hood in reverse, by Julio Llamazares

As the son of a school teacher with a large family who studied high school thanks to a scholarship (he would not have been able to study without it), I cannot help but marvel at the last fantasy of the president of the Community of Madrid, that woman who seems to have come from another galaxy, from approving scholarships for children of families with incomes of up to 180,000 euros who also study in private schools. Who gives more? one might wonder here and leave the rest of the article blank, since it is impossible to make any normal consideration. But it is that she has not only been the president of Madrid, of whose mental health many people are beginning to have doubts (not me: I think it’s normal, which is worse), the one who thinks that with everyone’s money we have to help the rich so that they can pay for their children to study in rich schools. The national leadership of her party as a whole has come out in her defense, even saying her spokeswoman in Parliament that with an annual income of 100,000 euros you are middle class. I who thought it was I have been deflated. The argument given by the president of the Community of Madrid to justify her surprising measure (nothing like it is known in Europe) is that freedom must be equal for all. And he explains: if all Madrid residents have the right to choose the school they want for their children, it would be discriminatory if those who choose a private school do not have the same rights, in this case access to a scholarship, as those in public education. I say what I said before: from this I should leave the rest of the article to write, because it is impossible to say something coherent.

But it is that the passion loses me. As a Spaniard who studied thanks to a scholarship and as a member of the lower class of this country (until the declarations of Cuca Gamarra, the parliamentary spokeswoman for the Popular Party, I thought I was middle class, but not anymore), I don’t quite understand how what I studied at the Faculty of Law about redistribution of wealth by the State through tax money has gone from being those who have the most to those who have the least to being the ones who pay the rich for their whims. Robin Hood, the legendary English outlaw, would also have been speechless like me if he had suddenly had to change his goals and start stealing from the poor to give to the rich instead of what he did according to legend, which was the opposite, but luckily for him he died before Ayuso was born . Not like me, who is his neighbor and I have to survive his statements and occurrences, almost all proof that in Spain it is true that anyone can become president, not in the United States of America, where to get there you have to know English. At this point, I have no choice but to finish the article, so I will do it in the most polite and respectful way possible. I will resort to charles bukowski Already Napoleon, two people free from all suspicion. Said Bukowski: “The problem with the world is that smart people are full of doubts, while stupid people are full of self-confidence.” And Napoleon: “In politics, stupidity is not a disadvantage.” Let no one think that I am referring to the president of the Community of Madrid with those two sentences, I am referring to myself for trying to understand the world.

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