Thousands protest Spain's new labor reforms

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2. I've been in spain for a period of time...

and to be brutally honest they could use a kick in their ass!
however, that said, a great deal of problems are top down, not bottom up.
it took 4 Y E A R S to get my (ex) father-in-law's house built because the contractor kept running out of money.

my FiL paid in full, but the contractor seemed to piss it away on other contracts that he hadn't bothered to properly back financially either. that's the practice in Spain. they don't ever put the money into the contract they're paid for. it's like a strange kind of pyramid scheme. the end result is it takes years to build a house or a complex.... my house complex... 14 houses + a 11-room living building, took SIX MONTHS!

Ask any European their opinion of the Spanish... it's not pretty and they can generally back it up with facts and /or personal experience.

I'm not in favor of fucking with worker's rights, but the Spanish ...

dislike them as I do... I believe the problem IS at the top, NOT at the bottom, which are the only people who will be affected, which will take an already crap economy (despite being a major bread basket for Europe, it's a slow economy) and break it completely!