The Government fix it!

Before any social, personal or institutional, the first thing an American is to see how you can fix yourself. A Spanish, however, the first thing that comes to mind is that it solves the Government. Or community. Or the City Council.

"That's what I pay my taxes!" Is often their final argument. And that, unlike other countries, there is a significant tax evasion, there is an economy 20% and typically in any fudge is that you ask. "With VAT or without VAT?".

The latest evidence of the usual transfer of responsibility to the government offers us the recent earthquake in Japan.

The citizens of that country have taken with stoic resignation the devastating consequences of the disaster without imposing anything on anyone. In contrast, the first thing that our compatriots living there was complain of the Spanish Embassy, ​​as if their limited staff only had to keep an eye on them day and night.

Is that, as a diplomat remembered for another event, "when a car accident he awoke in a remote hospital, the first thing he did was complain that the Spanish consul was not next to your bed." By the way, this time, our Government sent an expensive plane, to make matters worse, he returned half empty.

For this peculiar national character, what happens happens, "How is that with a 20% unemployment does not leave people on the street in Spain to apply for a job?" I asked the other day a friend abroad. "Well, because we do not want to work but grants, subsidies and other gabelas" was my embarrassed reply.