Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer

Re:Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secre... by teataster on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:47AM (#25792170)

Let me just mark that I know no spaniard outside government doing paid overtime. Literally. Everyone is doing overtime and it is not paid. That is huge corruption wise, it prevents jobs from being created, money is being stolen from workers and taxes are not paid.

Yes we have crooked politicians and public officials, but everyone is crooked and corrupt in the best case. At worst we are crooked and corrupt throwing our lives and money away.

This gets no reflection on official statistics.

Spain is a developing, quasi-feudalistic country and no amount of european money is going to change that at the root.

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Re:Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secre... by gallegojaime on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:28PM (#25795150)

This sort of negativity is misleading. Someone who has been to actual failed states will see how Spain turned out pretty successful, and only thinks of itself as inferior because of psychological reasons.

Corruption is of the same nature as in any other developed country, inside trusted circles of crooks. Try bribing any policeman in Spain and see how that goes. We regularly convict criminals for embezzlement and related crimes, including a relative of the last Spanish king (Iñaki Urdangarín).

Structural problems will need to be resolved (employment and entrepreneurship we can never foster enough). But we can't keep kicking ourselves down, that seems to be the national pastime.

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Re:Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secre... by teataster on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:00PM (#25795555)

Exactly what I am saying. But I am saying, stop blaming others, start changing yourself.

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Re:Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secre... by gallegojaime on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:19PM (#25795817)

I don't agree with the language you used on your original post; however I can wholeheartedly concur on that idea of personal responsibility.

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Re:Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secre... by pvaldes on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:54AM (#25792956)

> Everyone is doing overtime and it is not paid.

Sorry but not. Not my employees, that's for sure. Don't generalize.

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