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| JEMC said: Oh, my God. So many things to say and too little knowledge of English to tell them all. Let's start with the fact that unemployment in Spain is and has always been strangely high. Even in the better years (2006-07), there were almost 1.8 million people unemployed (8%). Then add that, unfortunately, there are many people working "off the books" as Kasz said. At work, there are many people working whitout contract and some of them also get the money from the unemployment. Sad, but that's what the owners want. Third, there are many people that confuse being unemployed with having payed holidays. Yes, I've seen many cases at work. And last, and it's not an excuse, please consider that unemployment is not calculated using the same rules everywhere. Let's take for instance some differences between Spain and Germany (and that's something an ex-politician said angry about some numbers used). In Germany, people looking for a job using a private agency are not included in the official numbers, and neither are the unemployed over 50, the younger than 20 that are looking for their first job or the unemployed that are doing some formation/training course. The situation isn't good, but if there were so many people unemployed, how come the arrearage rate(¿?) (the index that tells how many credits/mortgage/bills are not payed) is under 8%? Where do people get the money from? |
An unpaid mortgage over 3-4% is outrageous, so an 8% as some banks have means a huge problem for that bank. People get help from their families, I know a married couple who have their parents pay the mortgage, as they can't pay it, and it's not an uncommon thing. Lots of 60-70 years old people are losing their houses, as they put them as a guaranty of their sons/daughters mortgages.
PS: Spanair (Second largest airline, 4000 workers) closed today, without notice. We are really near our limit here.
