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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • I’m afraid I must disagree on some points.

    While official numbers give an unemployment of 10.9, we must remember that there is a large underground economy, so actual numbers may be in the 5-6% range, or less.

    I agree on the bureaucracy, but I think its downscalable.

    Taxes I agree. They are proportionately larger than in most of the EU, and services worse.

    On the military, a hard disagree. I know several people in the military, and as in may countries, you have hawks, but most of the army is professional, and very, very neutral politically. The image of a politically active military is an old image, from the dictatorship, 50 years ago. Even then, when a coup was attempted, the majority of the armed forces shut it down. That image of the armed forces is mainly a discourse used by separatist regions for propaganda (not saying that propaganda isn’t used in non separatist regions, just different), and the hard left.