Spendthrifts or Victims of Circumstance?

[Sukerkin]

Here is a good 'emotion' piece on how some people in Spain are feeling about the current economic woes being visited upon them:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23064490

Part of me sympathises with them, for it must be awful to be in a country with a 1/3 unemployment rate and no sign of hope. The Spanish economy was a bit ramshackle from the get go after Franko and all those decades of isolation. So it is no wonder that with the injection of 'other peoples money' (via the EU) the ordinary folk thought that a Golden Age of plenty had dawned. But someone should have been on watch in the halls of power and at least raised a voice of concern that no 'free' party lasts forever.

 

[granfire]

Here is a good 'emotion' piece on how some people in Spain are feeling about the current economic woes being visited upon them:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23064490

Part of me sympathises with them, for it must be awful to be in a country with a 1/3 unemployment rate and no sign of hope. The Spanish economy was a bit ramshackle from the get go after Franko and all those decades of isolation. So it is no wonder that with the injection of 'other peoples money' (via the EU) the ordinary folk thought that a Golden Age of plenty had dawned. But someone should have been on watch in the halls of power and at least raised a voice of concern that no 'free' party lasts forever.

I think it's against human nature to accept that the gravy train will eventually reach the station.
Even when the destination is clearly painted on the side of the engine.