The Spanish Parliament
We, who live in New Orleans, make fun of our politicians as ongoing dinner conversation and entertainment, and lately with the way our congress, senate and presidential candidates have behaved, we have a full course meal of conversation and jokes. But really I must say that nothing tops what happened here in Spain the other day during a presentation of tough new austerity measures at the Spanish parliament where specifically unemployment benefits were cut to the bone (unemployment in Spain is 24%) while the conservative Pipa clapped, politician, Andrea Fabra stood up and yelled “FUCK THEM ALL” to an uproarious yee ha from the group.
She is the daughter of a notorious politician Carlos Fabra, who is known for his surprising lottery luck and for the promotion of the construction of an airport where there has yet to be any airplanes taking off.
In Zahara de los Atunes, which mostly draws the rich, the local working people are shaking in their fishing boots – “We’re the next Greece,” they keep saying as the restaurants and hotels remain full of summer tourists.
But I think before Spain topples like Greece there just might be a revolution. I’d say Spain is headed more towards a Spanish Spring than a collapse if you could only get them out of the plazas, bars, and streets long enough to notice that they are indeed, being fucked, royally.