The rob to the town

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Rejection grows to the Spanish government's economic politics
The rob to the town
By: Carlos Damián July 23, 2012
"The people fuck you": Andrea Fabra, she screams to unemployed
México. - The uneasiness and the indignation grow. The same day that the Spanish Executive, of the conservative Mariano Rajoy (MR), it approved the battery of having measured anticrisis that only punish to the middle and low classes, and it gravels the consumption with the increment of the VAT from 18 to 21 percent, people's thousands came out in the whole country to reject the economic politics again. With screams of “Rajoy renounce”!, and “this is a rob"!, employees publics united, citizens, indignant, professors, firemen, students, miners, and union that announce more protests and more confrontations to the government.

Along the day the meetings, the protest expressions and the manifestations were happened by the whole country. They were headed by public employees -the community more punished with the measures anticrisis, with a loss of more than 20 percent of their wage for two years and now with the retreat of the Christmas gift and the suppression of holidays days - they were carried out silent concentrations, “sit-down strikes" (consistent in making the indispensable minimum in their work positions) and street manifestations that the main cities traveled. Madrid was the scenario of the most energetic protests and multitudinous that transformed the capital into a chaos vial, with the intermittent succession of manifestations from the morning until the night.

The economic politics punishes to the middle and lower class
Very early, employees publics of the affected area ones -all except for the Real House - they closed important streets and avenues, as the Paseo de la Castellana and the Puerta del Sol, and they rejected the government's politicians, in front of the Congress of the Deputies and to the doors of the Palacio de la Moncloa, where the settled workers booed the government's high officials when they entered to deliberate in the council of ministers. At late-night they carried out a multitudinous manifestation traveling the centers of power pointed out as main responsible for the current situation: the central headquarters of the right-wing Popular Party (PP), the Congress of the Deputies, the opponent's offices Party Socialist Spanish Worker (PSOE, in Spanish), and the palace of government of the community of Madrid, governed by the ultraconservative Esperanza Aguirre.

During the acts claimants, the demonstrators screamed “Rajoy renounce"! and they insisted on pointing out that they are victims of a "rob" because the series of having measured anticrisis only affects to the population's sectors that are less fortunate and the group of the consumers -with the ascent of the VAT -, but at the same time it exempts from any responsibility to the causing of the crisis, as the main financial institutions and the big managers. For that reason watchwords screamed like “There the Alí Baba’s cave ", “they sink the worker, they rescue to the banker", and “Rajoy, if you don't have solutions, it summons elections". Many of the public employees that protested in front of their work centers dressed of black, as a token of mourning before what they consider the death of their historical union rights, and to show that they work with “sadness, grief, depression and anger."

The cuttings don't play any interest of the Church neither of the Real House
They criticized that the measures anticrisis doesn't play any interest of the great banking neither of the Catholic Church -that maintains intact their financing -, neither of the Real House. Two big loads on the back of the Spanish town, due to dictator Francisco Franco's inheritance. "Above that they mash us with their measures, they have the nerve of insulting us", one of the demonstrators says, Elisa Rodriguez, expressed who remembered that during the voting of the package of measures and it just in the moment in that MR announced the cutting to the subsidy for unemployment, a deputy of the PP, Andrea Fabra, spit exaggerated and while she applauded, outside of herself same altered: "the people fuck you"!, it insulted to the unoccupied ones that it generated even bigger uneasiness and shivered. The group of the opposition demanded its renouncement as parliamentarian, especially when she recognized that she said those words, but it aimed that in fact these were directed to the “socialist deputies."

The headquarters of high level of the PP supported to the legislator and “it denounced a campaign of bad reputation". That misery and cowardice that a legislator insults to the Spain’s town and hide from its insults to the poor by means of a “campaign of bad reputation". While the street burned of uneasiness toward the government, MR approved in the Council of ministers the measures that he announced last Wednesday (6/11/12), in the Congress of the Deputies that they searching to save 65 thousand million Eurus to the State in two years. The Spanish administration confirmed the increment of the VAT that will become effective starting from the first of September, and other increases of taxes in activities like the tourism, the energy, the cinema and practically all the secondary sectors of the economy.

On September 1, TAX will ascend from 18 to 21%
The cuttings were ratified employees publics and sensitive sectors. "It is forced to make it for the circumstances, for the recommendations or for the necessity of reducing the public deficit", the Treasury minister, Cristobal Montoro, affirmed who only some weeks ago he promised in all the forums that it would not go up the VAT neither he would play the wage of the State’s workers. The night meeting screamed people's thousands unceasingly: "Mariano listens, you don't finish the summer"! The protest grew in front of a property tightly protected by agents anti-disturbances and the own presence of the government's delegate, Cristina Cifuentes who listened that the citizenship demanded her its renunciation and they rejected without views its repressive acts in the protests of the last months, mainly the one that caused more than 80 wounded in the call “black meeting” of the miners. (La Jornada, crisis global, p.p. 2.3, July 14, 2012).