A Visit To Absurdistan: What Happened to the Spain Where I Was Born?

[sysop]

SPIEGEL reporter Juan Moreno grew up in Germany as the son of Spanish immigrants. He cherished summers spent as a child in his parents' former village. He recently traveled back to his country of birth to trace the causes of the crisis and to meet those whose lives it has changed in heartbreaking ways.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...847513,00.html

[Trojan Horace]

Ah yes those halcyon days of Fascisto Supremo General Franco, when all you could breathe was passive smoke all your way down the clogged non-duelled roads at 35mph between Germany and Spain for days on end, assuming the military police didn't take you away in the night for routine torturing that is. Yes, we all drove in golden chariots with jewelled tables groaning with feasts and our wallets were always bursting with money in those perfectly remembered, nostalgic days... How we all miss them.

[JaviTou]

""That you can't take an economy seriously when it's based on sun and oranges" "Absurdistan" "spaniards gamblers"?

Thats simply not true.

Citrics are 1,2 % of spanish exports. Tourism is 4.5 % of national wealth. And those are facts nor opinions


This is a misinformed, ingnorant and absurd article. Why is this person sapeaking about Spain? Only because her parents were inmigrants?

[MarcGras]

Originally Posted by sysop

SPIEGEL reporter Juan Moreno grew up in Germany as the son of Spanish immigrants. He cherished summers spent as a child in his parents' former village. He recently traveled back to his country of birth to trace the causes of the crisis and to meet those whose lives it has changed in heartbreaking ways.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...847513,00.html

Yes, we did many things wrong. Or, at least, let them happen. And we are goign to pay for it.

On these paragraf I read:

"But who is to blame? Bankia, because it gave a quarter-million-euro loan to a man who was making €940 a month after taxes? Or Panlador, because he took out the loan? No one forced him to do it. Perhaps both are to blame."

The thing is that Bankia and many other financial institutions in Spain did not have money enough to do all this bad loans. Therefore, who gave them all this money? German banks did, Dutch banks did and I guess even asian money helped it to happen. The question is Why is the CEO of Deutch Bank saying that we have been very bad and we now desserve all these contingencies without any pain mitigation. Deutch Bank is among the ones to blame, and among the ones who are now making more money out of it, incidently.

Yes, I have been ages saying education and scientific investigation are among the most impotant keys for sustainable development. Men, you made me almost cry. I love my city of Barcelona and your words are very painfull indeed. At least there are companies like the barcelona based one Grifols which is among the best doing in Europe these last 4 years.