28 Jan 2013 1:13 PM:
Irish and living in this country since the 80's. Love Spain and its people, but..................the corruption really and truly is unbearable. The general opinion is I agree, as some of the writers in the thread mention, Basic as it may seem, I think that it is simply an attitude of - who will listen??? Daily news programs report constantly of immenent strikes and cutbacks effecting the average JoeSoap....he /she is so busy worrying about their job,(if they have one) worrying about what is going to happen to them, ie., cuts in salaries, longer working hours per week, not to mention the dreaded termination of their contract - and it goes without saying, that if you are one of the 6 million.........well your hands are tied or so it would seem. Power and Money, Money an Power......hard to work against that - P.P were voted in by the majority, supposedly P.P were going to work the miracles that the P.S.O.E had not been capable of doing - neither of them are worth their weight in salt and are serious deliquents and total hypocrites, robbing the Joe Soaps of Spain to line their own pockets while slowly but surely taking all the rights that have been acheived by this country in the years since the death of the Dictator. It will be interesting to see what comes about in the future.........a country where the young are leaving in their droves to bring their expertise to other countries who will claim ownership of the results. It is like history repeating itself!!!! Many Spanish friends were appalled at the M15 movement and considered them to be a group of radicals, reminds me of conversations with old men and women who will say outrageous things like - we were better off with the dictatorship - acceptable because of their age and lack of knowledge of democracy, but non the less a proposterous thing to say if one has any true recollection of how it was. The current system in Spain reflects a lot of similiar attitudes to that era. Keep it in the family, i.e, don't let the lower classes in, keep them poor and dependent on the 5% who hold the wealth, and therefore the power, another thing that is slowly creeping back in is the ENCHUFAZO system, and I don't mean recommending someone for a job, but blatantly placing non suitable people into jobs simply because of their family or social connection. Anyway sorry to go on and on, but I get furious, and to think that these theives are free and walking the streets able to enter into other business deals while lying their way out of the ones that they are accused of.
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The latest corruption scandal to hit Spain.
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