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To the rescue of the dignity that work grants

2021-08-11T09:37:25.144Z


At the San Cayetano festival, the social movements demanded more assistance from the State. Governments must facilitate job creation.


Guillermo Marked

08/11/2021 6:01 AM

  • Clarín.com

  • Opinion

Updated 08/11/2021 6:01 AM

San Cayetano was born in Vicenza, in the then Republic of Venice, in 1480. In Rome, he founded a congregation of clergy known as that of the Theatines.

Saint Cayetano, called the “Saint of Providence,” died in Naples in 1547. Pope Clement X proclaimed him a saint in 1671. But devotion and work orders arose much later.

They say that in the late 1800s in Argentina a peasant asked him to intercede for the lack of water and, as a way of gratitude, he left an ear of wheat at the foot of his image.

Three days later it rained so much that the city was flooded.

In the 1930s, in the midst of the economic crisis, the cult of the saint began to spread in the country, who lived in austerity and helped those most in need.

For generations many came to San Cayetano to ask for bread and work, but also many others to thank, especially having been able to obtain a job, because it was their source of dignity.

Today, in addition, there are massive demonstrations demanding more assistance from the State.

In the recent march that the social movements organized in "Los Cayetanos" have carried out every August 7 for five years, the union secretary of the Union of the Popular Economy, Gildo Onorato, declared: "In each mobilization we made concrete proposals, some of them they say claims, but more than claiming we are proposing a basic salary law for the popular economy, so that there is an income floor above the indigence line, and access to non-bank credit ”.

In this way, the leader stressed that cooperatives and mutuals will be able to "gain scale in production, access new consumer markets, have market reserves and move the wheel of the economy from the bottom up." The issue is that this universal salary that they are demanding comes from the taxes of those who work in white, or from the machine to print tickets that inflation generates, or from the external loans that these sectors like so little.

Successive governments did not create favorable situations for job creation.

On the contrary, they persecute and oppress with taxes.

In addition, they sometimes open imports from Asian countries that have workers without social rights or the possibility of claiming them.

While the guilds make impossible claims.

So businesses and SMEs close their doors and companies leave.

The Church should also correct its preaching, because if it wants the poor to get out of poverty, it has to encourage and praise that those who can are generators of employment and not lash out at their wealth.

Pope Francis says something very important in the fifth chapter of his encyclical Fratelli Tutti, speaking of the best politics.

In number 162 he states that “helping the poor with money must always be a temporary situation, of course it can be urgent;

we have to accompany them by helping them create that dignity that work gives ”.

"We therefore have to ask Saint Cayetano for the sources of work and for the capacity that the country can unite around this reality where each one can contribute their best," said Bishop Oscar Ojea, in the homily for the holiday. of the saint.

And he ended with this intention: "Let us ask San Cayetano, the saint of bread and work, to look once again at our Argentina, to consider the enormous need we have to emerge through work for all, that we can understand each other in this point businessmen, workers, all kinds of workers, workers of the popular economy and so many brothers and sisters of ours who are unemployed.

May God bless you and may Saint Cayetano give you strength and hope so that the Lord will give us work ”.

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