Spain ... economy, pain, protests: what's the future?

[Guanche]

I suspect it will end in the truth Janet. What a calamity that will be!

[poker]

Glad i never saved for any pension .

[Guanche]

Glad i never saved for any pension .

But you will have your Belgium state pension Poker?

[poker]

In 21 years they won't have any money anymore (wil be 65 then) .

In Belgium they already stretched the systhem over the edge by letting evryone in and giving them without anybody paying in to the systhem. ( just give us a (left) vote  (wink)).


I workt 22 years and was 20 years in the systhem paying ( minimum what was possible ) as I knew already then it could not last .

My ant should of gone on pension this year but she just fell out by a month when they changed the pension age becouse of shortige in money .
She has to work 3 years more now and wont get anything more .
It came hard for her as they first sayd youre in it and then 6 months later sayd youre just out, we miscounted.
She already had plans for a nice pension here in Tenerife and Belgium , but it has to wayt now.


We had maroccan neighbours here on the complex till last year , you can gues it they left for Belgium as they get more there than they got here .
Every body else knows how to suck the systhem dry exept the good peaple .
They are very well informed and know all the triks to get the most . . . . . .

I diden't pay a lot and expect nothing.

But others payed a lot and will get less back .

And a lot dident pay at all and are sucking the systhem dry .

It cant last . . . . .

[Janet]

If you want to know where Spain is heading look at Jerez .

It hasn't got any better over the last 4-5 months ...

[El Profesor]

Andalucia 

Compare with Euskadi - 12% employment and no government debt.
(You won't get a job there though ..... unless you speak fluent Euskera.)

[Nova]

bat, bi, hiru, lau... I can count to ten 

Edit: I just finshed reading the article, I was restricted earlier.  It is seriously scary stuff.  I can't imagine where this will all end.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Not sure where this goes but it is late on a Friday.  We have elections on Sunday.  Here's a piece from the Guardian about how temporary workers, a bigger percentage than ever before, may vote and why. 

[El Profesor]

Not sure where this goes but it is late on a Friday.  We have elections on Sunday.  Here's a piece from the Guardian about how temporary workers, a bigger percentage than ever before, may vote and why. 

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Yes . . . I mean WOW . . . .  This Sunday is without a doubt the most interesting moment in Spanish history (or will be) since the "transition" of '75 - '78.
Nobody has any idea at all what is going to happen.
It can go four ways with numerous permutations of coalition.
It seems to me that this is the first time in their history that the Spanish people actually feel that they are participating in the democratic process
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I'm betting on a big surprise that no one expected.

[Perikles]

I'm betting on a big surprise that no one expected.

By definition, at least one person expects it - you!