Spanish 15M no longer exists...

...what was formerly an open, spontaneous, healthy, innocent, naïve, "non-denominational" movement of people of all sorts that demanded simple and true "justice" from Spanish Politicians and Establishments has in the past few months swerved and is now full of left wing opportunistic and / or extremist or plain rude and violent thugs and the likes. They have occupied the place of the movement that allowed for all kinds of people. A peaceful and open movement has now been "occupied" by those that auto-proclaim themselves to represent the identity of 15 M. Some yell, spit and throw stones at police; others enjoy getting together to get blasted: alcohol, drugs, whatever; others like creating as much chaos as they can - the purpose can be to have a little violent fun, looting, beating, and the likes.
15M has disappeared and those of us that truly and at heart made up this fantastic movement can no longer support these beasts; they are becoming more menacing, more radical, less tolerant, and instead of proposing realistic solutions to confront and overcome the crisis, these great minds can only think up they want more assistance, more money, greater unemployment checks, they demand the government incur greater expenses, they demand companies and "the rich" pay more taxes ("rich" being anyone that earns more than they do)... an endless list of pathetic, violent demands. These people did not and do not represent 15M. 15M is gone and dissappeared when these beasts stepped in.

So, what's the problem with Spain these days....

The true problems in Spain are:
- An inept political class. They have no vision, no true principles, most are unprepared to uptake the responsibilities thay are assigned to. Very especially, there is no accountability. All Spanish citizens are equal; unfortunately, some (specifically, politicians) are more equal than others.
- An inefficient, unjust, very slow and biast judicial system. It takes years for court cases to resume, it's costly, there's too much uncertainty. Judges are no doubt above the law.
- Decentralization. The Autonomous Community model in Spain has created too great a replication of functions and activities, and thus costs. There is also a loss of focus on important issues.
- Savings Banks (Cajas de Ahorros). Banks have tempered the crisis well in Spain. The problem is those banks in hands of politicians, that is, savings banks. Politicians have been allowed to guide these institutions in their own interest, losing millions, and no-one is accountable.
- Justice. Who audits and cares for fraud? Banks, telco's, construction company, etc. It's worthwhile to carry out fraudulant business practices. Because of the slow and unjust judicial system, most cases don't reach court, and those that do are expensive, slow and not always just. So it's profitable to rip people off. The government does not watch over these abuses to assure it's kept down to a minimum.
- Unemployment. Can only remain as high due to a large submerged economy. Instead of lowering taxes in order to favor declaring income, they opt for the opposite, further bleeding those that pay taxes and, more important, reducing tax payer benefits.
There are more I shall address in subsequent posts.