How to pay the social security and more by legalizing drugs

I have been talking about this with people of all kinds, and although some do not agree completely on how to, everybody agrees that it would bring loads of money for the state and eliminate a lot of crime.
Instead of reducing social security or raise taxes, JUST LEGALIZE DRUGS!!!!
The idea is very simple, the state buys the drugs and distributes them, at a lower price but with a huge benefit, since the price at the source is only a tenth of the price on the street. This would take out the gangsters, who are earning fortunes now and terrorist groups, who buy weapons and bombs aimed at our society.
Even the method of distribution should not be too difficult as everybody who has ever been in a Dutch coffeeshop knows. Of course this only works for soft drugs like marihuana or hashish and maybe magic mushrooms and LSD, but if pharmacies are in charge of amphetamines, cocaine and heroine, for example, they could have a list of users, who will have to sign for a certain personal dose of the drug they want. This list should also be accessible for everyone, and could be used by employers.
This would make the step from soft to hard drugs a lot harder, as everyone wanting hard drugs would have to tell the pharmacist they are users, a big step for a newbie.
And, most important, the taxes raised on these drugs would pay for the entire social security of a country, complete with unemployment benefits for everyone without a job!

Foreigner department Benahavis

This is the e-mail of the FOREIGNER department in Benahavis. It is an 8.7MB!!! e-mail, to say something which does not really help foreigners who are not speaking Spanish.
It just says "Please see attached for the easter week processions" and then everything else is in Spanish, including this picture too big for a 24" screen.
This shows how much work these people ( earning close to 2.000 euros/month plus free golf ) are spending on information.

Benahavis Local Police

I have been three times to the local police office in Benahavis today, and there was nobody all day. These are people getting paid over 2.000 euros per month, and there are at least 30 of them. WHERE ARE THEY???
What is happening to all these police officers, there should be enough of them to sort out a permanent occupation of the offices!
On top of that they have been fining cars parked next to the sports hall where there is no yellow line or any sign saying that you cannot park, just a white line ( not a yellow one ) delimiting the road. That is not worth a fine in any other European country, and probably not here either, but I don't think the local police know more than you and I about traffic rules.
In other towns there is a 1 to 500 or 1000 ratio on police officers to inhabitants, here it is 1 to 100, and you still do not get one when you need them! SACK THEM!!

Tapas day - Dia de Andalucia

Yesterday, 28th of february, it was Andalucia day, and bars and restaurants sold a beer ( or a wine ) and a tapa for 3,00 euros. That sounds reasonable, I suppose, but any other day, most bars are selling a beer and a tapa for 2,50 euros.
I have to admit it was a success nevertheless.
The town hall organised some music in the streets but every bar and restaurant has music anyway so that was a bit of money wasting, I thought. I think that in crisis days it would be better to reduce prices and sell a beer or wine plus tapa at 2,00 euros and give the money the town hall paid for the bands directly to the bars and restaurants, so they can sell cheaper.
Anyway, I hope everyone who was in town enjoyed their day.

Money for education in Spain

If you need money, where do you look for it? I would look where there is some, and in Spains case this is not the education budget, where cuts in operating costs for schools and universities are on their way.

When trust funds escape millions and probably thousands of millions of tax in Spain and big companies pay low tax percentages ( Banco Santander pays 634 million on a net profit of 2538 million in the 4th quarter of 2011 according to their website, only 25%) the government should ask these thrusts and companies to come up with the money needed to make sure the educational level in Spain improves instead of getting worse.
This would not only give them a larger workers base of skilled personnel but also boost the local economy because better education means more businesses.

When I hear that entire classes have to fight over a heater because there are only a few of them per school, I am convinced a lot of pupils are even less committed and less stimulated to finish their basic education, thus creating an even larger group of social outcasts or non-adapted citizens to fight this crisis.
Because higher education brings more employment, it is as simple as that! And to do that the money has to come from the big fortunes who are now well protected by Spanish tax laws and escape through the mazes of the net.

A future town hall or a waste of building

Well, here we have the future town hall of Benahavis, a monster building which has been standing there unfinished and without any work going on for about 18 months. Maybe it is time to use this multi million euro construction for something, otherwise it'll be in ruins again before it is inaugurated.
I believe it can only be used as a town hall but it could be a lot more useful as a hospital or a large hotel.
And if you have any better and preferably funny uses for it, just send them in as a comment.

The only way to create employment

Now that the unemployment rate in Spain is above 5 million, or way above a staggering 20% of the working population, it might be time to remind to politicians a book I read about 15 years ago, and then lost it unfortunately.
I am talking about "The Trap", a book by James Goldsmith, whose family still own quite a large part of Benahavis. In this essay, the millionaire writer explains in a clear and simple way why globalisation is doomed and only producing locally can actually give some relief to the unemployment figures.
It should not come as a surprise that unemployment is on the rise as most of the labour intensive local production units close in favour of cheaper wages abroad, thus giving rise to the imported amounts of most developed nations, leaving on the other side countries such as China and India with an enormous surplus.
With companies having to produce locally, either within the borders of a country, part of that or an entire continent ( according to the product, but the smaller the area, the better ), the sales price might rise a bit, but the unemployed will drastically reduce, thus taking the pressure of the government finances and stimulating the local economies.

Reduction of the social security in Spain

As Spanish government is trying to rapidly undermine the social services with less compensation for workers and less unemployment days, it is about time to look at the countries that have best withstood the actual crisis.
Whereas Mediterranean countries like Greece, Italy and Spain ( and others like Portugal and Ireland ) are suffering, in countries with better social services such as the Scandinavian countries, the Benelux and Germany the unemployed can still spend money as they are getting a minimum wage of the government.
Of course these countries are also immerged in the crisis but, unlike the problematic ones, already show signs of recuperation, in my view because the "lower" layer of the population still funds the economy knowing they will get money at the end or the beginning of the month.
What Spain is doing now reducing the unemployment benefits only creates more insecurity and therefore less spending from the less lucky layers of the population, which means that about 25 to 30% of the inhabitants aren't really forming part of the economy any more.