Various wasteful times of crisis and Other Stuff

Extravagance in times of crisis many do not know what hit hardest by Berlusconi's career if their orgies or the cost thereof. And is that what bothers us is the expenditure in times of crisis. For one, by giving flowers to his mistress with the official VISA, has had to resign the right hand of the London mayor, Boris Johnson. Of course, to flowers, worn by Prince Azim of Brunei, to celebrate his 26th birthday surrounded by beauty: 70,000 pounds. Also with a model Kate Moss, best known for his love of cocaine for his work-is with whom he has celebrated the Richard Branson of another anniversary: ​​that of his Virgin airline. To spend, then, that it is not. In Spain, a famous cache by going to a party-Isabel Preysler is one of the figures quoted in this activity, ranging between 3,000 and 180,000 euros. Total no. The taxpayer money is wasted, however, a more subtle: the creation of positions in an apparent substance. Thus, almost without noticing, in the European Union there are now 34,000 officers, 15,000 lobbyists and 268 regional offices: those of our region, with five hundred employees.

That is, as governments presume to delete posts, by the back door to politicians dismissed repositioned making them advisors, special ambassadors and others. Decide which is worse: the tacky glitz of the rich or the hypocrisy of politicians spendthrift.

Sport and crisis have begun to sound the early warning signs. The football team without Xavi Hernandez, has been a mediocre team that could barely beat South Africa. Rafa Nadal has a hard time and the Spanish Armada was wrecked tennis at Wimbledon. We'll have to wait for the behavior of Alberto Contador and Carlos Sastre in the Tour to learn if the other episodes, rather than a bad sign, are only a temporary illusion. But there is another hypothesis. Is that the successes of Spanish sport since 1992 over here have come from the hand of our economic development. And now, with a crisis harder and more durable than other countries, will start losing streak. Everything can be, since, if it is not money to pay mortgages, investment companies, for the summer holidays for municipal budgets, ... why will have for the sport? It is too early to tell. Give us the answer in about a year different sports scores. The art of political revenge say that, little by little, the government of Patxi Lopez is changing in Euskadi to the school principals.

Which could be explained by the previous exacerbation there is also the case nationalist Galicia Nunez Feijoo, from very different political components. This is the art of partisan revenge in this country after the alternation agreed by Cánovas and Sagasta in the nineteenth century, affecting up to the officers of the ministries. The same happened in Italy turbulent three decades ago with painstaking labor Cabinets and then lasted a few weeks. Therefore, the lucid journalist Indro Montanelli ironic that the country was stable only when he was without a government. In contrast, in France or Great Britain, with well established states, and may be a tumble election that the country will remain the same. In France, thanks to the government stable output of the ENA, and the United Kingdom thanks to the civil servants, officials reach higher levels. Some of it would be desirable among us, where the arrival of the Catalan tripartite power left in the street thousands of plugged-Jordi Pujol to make room for new henchmen. I do not aspire for it to happen here as with Sarkozy, who used to notorious Socialists like Kouchner, Rocard, Strauss-Kahn and to Frédéric Mitterrand.

But from that to our regular political beheadings there is an abyss.