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JAVIER MARIAS THE PHANTOM ZONE
The country that takes the crisis to joke
28/06/2009 JAVIER MARIAS
In a country like Spain costs taken extremely seriously the current economic crisis, let alone policies to combat it, whether the government or the opposition, although the latter did not even know what it is. The truth is we do not talk about something else for ten months and yet, overall, nothing changes are expected to do so. Of course there are many more unemployed, and that many are already running out of unemployment benefits and it is unknown what will become of them. You can add the difficulties of many companies, the planned collapse of wild real estate (against whose abuse did nothing any politician, despite the countless warnings of those who are not politicians or economists, was a matter of plain common sense), lack of unscrupulous banking and what you prefer. But there is no way to take this seriously crisis when I sit down to write this piece on Thursday 11 June and in my community is again being a holiday, which invited many people to take off tomorrow, Friday, that is, a bridge to no longer return to their work until Monday, 15. This is not something exceptional, but the rule. In Madrid, in less than three months, was a holiday on March 19, Thursday, leading up to Monday 23 bridge, then on Friday, April 3 began the "operation out" of Holy Week, which ended here Monday 13, but in many parts of the country on Tuesday, 14, on Friday and Saturday 1 and May 2 party were again and again it was Friday 15 May San Isidro, and, as if all this were not enough, again today, Corpus Christi (?). This means that between March 15 and June 15, have been more or less non-working 39 dates, counting Saturdays, Sundays and Easter full (but not on Easter Monday). O, which is the same, 43% of the day, nearly half of the past.
"What kind of society is this where provision is made for any twat?"
Is this serious? Is it advisable? Is it typical of a society steeped as he repeats every day with hair and clothes torn countertop, in the worst economic emergency since the Second World War? Does some sense that the production and activity is interrupted by storm, every now and then? (And you will see in any town suspends summer days of leisure and noise called "patron saint".) Measures against the famous crisis, how is that not a single politician has come up with the crazy schedule to review and alter temporarily? (I will confess at once, for the suspicious, that, as autonomous self, it is normal to work every day, Saturdays, Sundays and Easter included, when I allow the processions of the unemployed.)
does not help to take it in seriously know that many people earning 1,500 euros a month on average is Caritas going to ask for food because he needs the money to pay the mortgage and car bills. And one wonders who the hell oblige anyone to have a flat owned by or own a car, or who has convinced him that those two things are among the basic needs and indispensable. Also, every time someone goes to strike out on television and telling the miserable situation that is not usually grieve the lack of money to eat, or clothe their children and take them to school or to pay for electricity and water, but, insistently, he laments the difficulties that await to meet the mortgage and the terms of the car. And again I wonder who forced him to get the acquisition of such property dispensable. Well, banks, credit skimp now, were the big tempting to four days, of course, but not forced. (Also for the suspicious, I hasten to say I live in and rented car I've ever had.)
delinquencies has increased in recent years, long before the crisis. What kind of society is this where it is considered normal to live permanently above their own potential, and not borrow for essentials or for exceptional, but for any cunt or whim, to celebrate in style communion the girl like a miniboda, or leave Vacation is not nearby, but to Cancun or Bali? There seems to be also an absolute inability to down to earth. How do I give up this and that, if I've had, I mean almost everybody, and, with the usual childish spirit of our time, turns to the state, like the parent, to remedy their private frustrations. And the state, weak and imbecilizado gives aid to keep people buying a car (luxury and contaminants only in the case of esperanzaguirreños) and continues to maintain all bridges and demented unproductive that mark our calendar. How do you intend to politicians, economists, bankers, entrepreneurs and the unions that we take seriously? Http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
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