The miracle of the loaves and fishes
If Uribe was believed God, omnipotent and wise, Santos is Messiah. I say this because the national government, as in a Bible story, want to multiply the loaves and fishes. And it intends to do so through an amendment to the Stock system progresses steadily in the Congress, also like Jesus on the sea.
But that feat written by the evangelist Matthew to trying to make President Santos and his disciples (who know little or nothing of that adage "eat where they eat two three") there are huge differences . The miracle of Jesus was to feed them five thousand men with only five loaves and two fish, also filled twelve baskets with food. With the reform, the opposite happens: the regions take the loaves and fishes and throw in one basket to have access only to the apostles. How to achieve this? Forcing municipalities rulers and departments, to keep the umbilical cord of the central government by establishing a system of centralization and causing the political ruling class and the territories do any trick and achieve out of this basket half loaf and half a fish to feed a group of very reduced population.
How the system works now, municipalities, departments and sea and river ports involved in transporting oil and derivatives, receive direct royalties as established by the Constitution in Article 360 \u200b\u200bthat wants amend Article 1 of Legislative Act 013 of 2010. And in compensation to the regions not producing, they receive royalties indirect projects within the Development Plan. Approved the said Article shall be the government that "will determine (...) the distribution of income from royalties and compensation, administration, execution, control, efficiency, destination, operation of the General System of Royalties and conditions in which the beneficiaries participate in its resources "and applies a principle here seudomoral," the mayors and governors are rogues "disparaging another reality that has prevented progress in social investment: the onus of management, the lack of regional autonomy to manage resources and tight municipal investment cycles and departmental levels.
The case of Article 361 is more troubling, because as is "These funds will be applied to the promotion of mining, environmental preservation and to fund regional investment projects defined as priorities in development plans of the respective local authorities ", ie, the village aqueduct, the little school, medical units, the sports, restaurants, schools, hospital, etc.., aimed at mitigating the basic needs of those depressed areas where they are present mayors and governors, and very rarely go to ministers. But according to the Senate adopted in plenary, "The overall system resource royalties will fund economic development projects, social infrastructure and environmental preservation preference, investment in science, technology and innovation, territorial pension savings and to generate public savings "(Art. 13, Legislative 2/acto 2010)
is true that in regions such as Casanare and Meta waste of loaves and fishes has been notorious. In the case of Target, the resources exploited non-renewable since 1976 and today, according to a report from the Bank of the Republic, "is still in the process of increasing those revenues, and has even had the opportunity to direct projects that contribute generally to strengthen economic development regional and in particular to improve the living standards of its people. " For its part, the Comptroller General's Office has found in 2010 8 cases of irregularity that have fiscal implications, 21 disciplinary and 8 with criminal scope.
The GCR noted that these cases concern "at work in educational institutions that do not meet the purpose for which they were provided, they are abandoned and unfinished, and also paid amount of work that were not executed, in Vista Hermosa, El Dorado, Cumaral, Cabuyaro, Puerto López, El Calvario, Cubarral and Puerto Concordia ", and if off, scored very unfavorable "fiscal management of the resources from royalties indirect executed during the lifetimes of 2005 to 2009."
The above illustration refers to a case in which enforcement agencies have worked , but need not be a valid argument in deciding that the loaves and fish should go in one basket, because unlike the census, there are departments with very good use of royalties, and are those who claim, rightly, from the legal standpoint, to remain as they are.
In that regard, I fully share the view of the Governors of Santander, Tolima and Huila. Horacio Serpa, the initiative "ignores the rights of municipalities and departments to put (them) in a situation where you can remove the opportunity to implement social recovery" counterpart Jorge Luis Sanchez, believes that "this project attack survival of local authorities " and with good reason Barreto says: "this project is a blank check, which does not say how much would the budget in each of the departments."
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