Saturday, July 14, 2012

Spain pre-crisis (crazy)

Yesterday I saw a documental from Antena 3 called "El dinero que no debimos gastar" (The money we shouldn´t have spent).

What can I say? A lot of it I already knew. But to see it all together, and with such a detail, left me shocked.

Included in the program:
- the abuse of armored cars (estimated to 5000 at a cost of approx. 48k€ per year).
- the uncontrolled construction of regional airports (49 airports in Spain when, for instance, Germany only has 24. Closest to Spain is UK, with 33 airports).
- the "city of culture" in Galicia
- the municipality (La Muela) that paid vacations in the Caribbeans for its inhabitants (among many other excesses)
- highways without traffic
- La nueva Mestalla de Valencia

Having in mind that this is only the top of the iceberg, it's easy to get speechless (or breathless).

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The whole program is impacting, but what striked me most was the part regarding the City of Culture in Galicia.

So I searched some more videos on this.



Also, in English, a program called "Extreme engineering" which partly explains why the "City of Culture" is so expensive (300M€ and increasing).




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