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Subject: [Leica] Spain's Economic Collapse
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:15:48 +0100
References: <CAF8hL-F3fmcTi6UUAUvvvN6T-ffzPnZq4vfuUhdYvH227tUBUw@mail.gmail.com> <2F1B8B5E-7063-4ACD-A8DD-76D291F83D20@frozenlight.eu>

I'm absolutely agree with Nathan, but I would like add something that made 
my concern much more important, is the politic and the institutional crisis. 
We are not the only Country with a serious crisis in the history, but I 
can't see any signs of intelligence in our politicians, institutions, 
included the Monarchy, we (the people) don't have the solution but we are 
not the origin of the problem.

Cheers
Lluis 


El 24/02/2013, a las 14:03, Nathan Wajsman escribi?:

> Yes, during the boom years lots of white elephants like this were built, 
> including the fabulous Centre for Arts and Sciences in Valencia (at least 
> that one is nice to look at), the airport in Castell?n (opened 2 years 
> ago, not a single commercial flight, ever), etc. Construction workers were 
> imported from all over the world, first Eastern Europe, then South 
> America, then I suppose even some Chinese--although Chinese construction 
> workers have a terrible reputation in Europe, following the fiasco in 
> Poland leading up to the 2012 football championships. No matter, here in 
> Spain, until it all stopped in 2008, it was all about building, building, 
> building, fuelled by cheap credit. Classic boom and bust.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> 
> YNWA
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> On Feb 24, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Richard Man wrote:
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>>> From the New Yorker. Any thoughts from Nathan, Lluis etc.?
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>> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/02/slide-show-simon-norfolk-photos-of-spains-economic-collapse.html
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>> Hmm... I guess Chinese construction workers worked at some of the 
>> facility?
>> One picture has Chinese graffiti on the wall...
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>> -- 
>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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