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No me lo creo: El Gobierno pide paciencia a los jóvenes: "En 30 años estaréis mejor" #nolesvotes

Comprensión y paciencia. José Manuel Campa, secretario de Estado de Economía, asegura entender la incertidumbre de los jóvenes españoles que, bajo la bandera de 'democracia real ya' han tomado las calles de España y la Puerta del Sol, a unos cien metros de su propio despacho.

Pero una crisis del tamaño que atreviesa el país no se soluciona en un día: "Queremos transmitir a la gente joven que éste es un proceso de ajuste necesario" y que "su situación económica mejorará en 10, 20 y 30 años", ha señalado después de insistir en que el Gobierno "está haciendo todo lo posible para salir de esta situación".

Eso sí, hay que esperar a que las actuaciones vayan dando sus frutos "porque estamos creando un modelo económico de crecimiento más sostenible a largo plazo"

¿José Manuel Campa ha dicho esto de verdad? ¿Esto va en serio o es un chiste? Por favor, quiero ver un vídeo, escuchar una grabación. No doy crédito, me estoy empezando a quedar sin palabras.

Dictatorship returns to Spain, asking for a responsible vote considered harmful #notenemosmiedo

I'm really outraged about this. I can't believe this is happening in a supposed democratic country. Today, the electoral board of Madrid has denied authorization to the demonstration being held at Plaza del Sol. 

The best part of this is the last paragraph, where they say:
We consider that the petition for a responsible vote being mentioned may affect the election campaign and the freedom of the rights of the citizenship to exercise their votes.

What???? Asking for a responsible vote may affect an election campaign and restrict voter's freedom???? Oh, sorry, please tell me which party should I vote, so you can keep your #### warm at your easy chairs.

Cristina, the listener who demanded respect for #spanishrevolution demonstrators

Cristina, after listening how some guests of a public radio station were making fun of recent demonstrations at Spain, phoned them to ask for respect for demonstrators. Her speech really moved me, so I'm transcribing it here in english to share it with the rest of the world (corrections are welcome):

Hello, good morning. I'm talking to the public radio, isn't it? The radio which represents all of us, the one we are paying with our taxes. I think that it's really deplorable that we have to be listening in a public radio station, now that we are inmersed in the election campaign, how both main political parties of Spain act as preschoolers, having a fight. I have yet to listen any proposal from them so we have a better, fairer, more well-balanced, more equitable society for everybody.

I'm 46 years old, and I was at the Madrid demonstration last sunday, and I have something to tell you. There were a lot of young person, but we were of all ages and all classes. Antisystem people? Yes, of course. Politicians, bankers and all of those supporting those measures that are actually cutting all the rights that took our parents and our grandparents blood, sweat and tears to attain; our politicians who we have voted, that are obviously steered by the hands of the capital that also steer the media, those are the ones turning our young people, our sons into antisystem people; because they are leaving them out of the system, the system where we all would like to live in a fair and decent way. We all would like to have a home, to have a job, and have a peace and quiet life, so we can watch our sons and our grandsons growing. And they are cutting that future.

So please, if you, who are working at the public radio station, whose salaries are paid with all our taxes, when you have people in the gathering as those you had today, who said "this kind of youth we have" (you can listen again the gathering, and you'll notice it), this kind of youth we have is going to really surprise us. Because Spain is different, really: Spain bears, bears, bears, but there comes a time when you say enough, and that time has come. And now it is no more indignation time, no. Now it is reaction time. They have thrown them out of the Puerta del Sol, but there we are, supporting them. And we don't need any political parties or economical parties, we don't need all of that, we are more than enough. Our parents educated us in dignity, they told us to never stop following our dreams. So there we are, we are not antisystem people, we are not a handful of brainless people: those are all of us demanding a better world.

That's the only thing I wanted to tell you.

Thanks a lot, Cristina, wherever you are, for giving voice to our thoughts and feelings. I hope the time for that better world has come. It's time for the revolution.

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