Spanish mayor fights austerity by stealing from grocery stores

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JEMC said:

Player2 said:

JEMC said:

Player2 said:

Which political party isn't corrupt in Spain?

Right now we know that PP, PSOE, IU, CIU, PNV (and probably more) are, and their corruption is responsible of the actual situation of the country. Even the church is corrupt in Spain.

Political parties can't be corrupted. Polititians/members of those parties can. Let's not mix things.

Not every politician is corrupt.

And the church... well, what can be said of an organisation that has a commandment that says "do not kill", but has an army?

But political parties have stolen people's money in cajas de ahorros for their own funding (and housing-related corruption, and other things). This is why some banks don't have money now. And all of us are going to pay that money (taxes, lower salaries, etc), instead of them.

And those politicians that are corrupt are usually protected by their party peers, which sounds really bad.

We're going off-topic here, but as far as I know, only two cajas that later where almost forced to join into 1 suffered from that.

The rest, and I'm talking about the ones here in Cataluña had more freedom and were less politicized. Their problems were mainly brick and mortar ones.

Do you know who was the president of Caixa Catalunya? Narcís Serra i Serra, who was major of Barcelona and minister of defense, vice president of Spanish government from 1991 to 1995, a politician.

You can see tons of Cajas suffering, but no private bank. Caja Madrid, Caixa Catalunya, Nova Caixa Galicia, Caja Sur, CCM, Bancaja... All of them had problems. When  the politicians and syndicalists who directed those "non profit banks" with politic interest instead of economic interest, we as a society suffer, and lots of people don't seem to see it, as one of the "solutions" the left give to the Spanish crisis is to create a huge public bank, when the public banks are the source of our crisis, and the private banks have had much less problems.