Spain’s conservatives earn resounding election victory as voters oust Socialists

  

Emilio Morenatti/AP


"MADRID — Spanish conservatives won a resounding mandate at the polls Sunday, freeing them to make deep austerity cuts as they struggle to pull the country’s economy out of a tailspin."
"In an election marked by bitter disappointment and desperation over the euro zone’s highest unemployment rate, the Socialists who have led the country since 2004 were cast from office in their worst showing in the modern era of Spain’s democracy."

"Conservatives won 186 of the 350 seats in parliament; the Socialists won 110."

"Sunday’s vote gives Europe another leader closely aligned with the austerity-based consensus that the continent’s strongest economies say is the solution to what plagues the weaker ones. In recent weeks, leaders in Italy and Greece have been forced from their perches."

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While the local leftists are crowing about the socialist tendencies of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the rest of the world is realizing that government cannot continue to spend money that it does not have.  That being said, on the isolated issue of corporate bailouts, I think that there is widespread agreement that corporations should succeed or fail on their own accord without government intervention.

Here in the United States, we just passed the $15 trillion national debt thresh hold.  Neither Obama nor Congress has the political will to slash government spending and close tax loopholes in an effort to get a balanced budget.

On the other hand, Congressman McClintock supports a balanced budget amendment, yet the leftwing, former editor of The Union is playing liberal politics and omits this fact while he continually portrays McClintock in a false light.  This political gamesmanship is nothing new for our local left as can be seen here and here. 

We do not need political game playing.  We need people in charge who are serious about our nation's problems.  We need fearless people in charge, like Congressman McClintock who is overwhelmingly financially supported by private contributors, who have the political will to make the tough choices and who will not be intimidated.  No more bailouts, no more government intervention into private affairs, and balance a damn budget. 

The solutions to the problems that ail us are simple.  The unions, the corporations, the politicians who are supported by the unions and the corporation, and spin doctors who care more about their personal ideology than the country are making the simple solutions far less likely to be attained.

In any event, I will get off my soapbox and congratulate Spain for making a bold move to the right.  Now, the new Spanish leaders need to lead and fix the spending problems which ail them.