Yesterday (friday, December 3rd) the air traffic controllers went on strike without previous notice in Spain.
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One of the few things in Spain that the general public hates as much as our useless and lazy government is the air traffic controllers when they go on strike. Yesterday was the beginning of a 5 days holidays in Spain (monday and wednesday are holidays in all the country) and those who still can afford to take a plane for a holiday break ended up stuck at the Spanish airports when the air traffic controllers announced they went all sick simultaneously...
The air traffic controllers claim that the new law that was passed yesterday evening ruling their working legal frame was a frontal attack to their claims and thus they all became so upset that they were not able to perform their duties safely.
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Some passengers were disembarked from the very plane when they were about to run the lane for take off.
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The situation now is of over two hundred thousand people stuck in the airports, all pissed, waiting to take their planes to begin their already spoilt holidays.
The air traffic controllers are one of those groups that traditionally have the "muscle" to stop the country at their will. They enjoy salaries of over 200.000 euros per year and there are only 2400 of them.
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Despite the fact that yesterday was the worst day to pass this law and knowing that the controllers have been continuously claiming that the government has not comply with what they agreed months ago the government did pass this controversial law in the worst possible moment.
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The worst moment? Perhaps not if the purpose is to make others the target of hatred and complaints. These last months the government has had the monopoly of being the cause of social unrest and at least for some days the air traffic controllers will be sharing this unwanted position.
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The worst moment? Perhaps not if what the government seeks is to divert the focus of media attention when in Morocco are sounding war drums and today the Moroccan authorities backed by their muppet parliament are organizing a protest march to the Spanish city of Ceuta in northern Africa.
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The worst moment to pass this law? Perhaps not if the government is aiming to find something that would replace their obviously inadequate and random anti-crisis laws from the spotlight. Two out of the 5 million unemployed people in spain live in a household where not a single person has any income and the 426 euros aid to long term unemployed will disappear next february.
Our country needs urgent structural changes such as an employment legal frame that could oil the hiring market or to put our huge central and regional administrations on a severe budget diet but instead our government cuts the only support given to those who cannot, and will possibly not be able for years, get hired condemning them to poverty if not to committing illegal actions.
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We could save twice or more that money our government is denying to those in bigger need by cutting central and regional governments expenditures on silly things such as beginning with firing those thousands of useless advisors, the hundreds of para-administrative organizations, by cutting salaries and by firing the enormous amount of administration workers that work from 9 to 2 and take a 2 hour break for "breakfast".
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The government was urged to pass this air control law months ago and they could have waited another week or even a month instead of passing it in the worst possible moment, on the eve of a holiday, but they chose to do it in the worst possible moment for a reason: Zapatero needs to divert the social attention.
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Now the air traffic controllers will be under military authority and Zapatero will let all that built in social tension he is responsible of flow against them bringing us this "piñata" so that we get exhausted hitting this new rag doll and giving him (Zapatero) a break.
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But more and more people is aware of this maneuver and although we are all pissed with the air traffic controllers most of us will also claim the government for this and this morning we shall see the Moroccan king henchmen marching against Spain and after some few days we shall again be suffering the ineptitude of this curse named Zapatero.
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Yet another thing. It seems that our king´s health is not as good as they said and succession may be closer than we expected. I do not like our king at all (you can surf this blog and read about it) but neither do I like our lazy prince and I am sure many will take advantage of the succession should this occur in short. So watch out for what Moroccan king is about to do and how will Zapatero manages that knowing that Morocco (maybe) keeps a secret that affects many and that has kept Zapatero completely silent about Moroccan insults.
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