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Originally Posted by Kernunnos
My hot dog man confirmed this very empirically, all the fine restaurants around his little shop are going bankrupt for lack of clients.
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The signs are the same here, with the difference that it is highly unlikely that Zapatero's government will be able to do anything minimize the effects. Expect the crisis to move to levels of depression in Spain: There has never been a number as high of Spaniards with a mortgage, and interest rates are only expected to rise. Add to it a semi-floating immigrant population of about 5 million, which in Spain is of a fairly new arrival and which is not integrated in the society.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.