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Spain crisis in movie poster

Monday 08 October 2012

I never would have imagined that German taxpayers even have to stand up for Spanish banks.

When in 2007 Köfferchenträger knocked on the door of my former real estate and construction offices in Spain's southern coast and makes an urgent demanded that also encourage immigrants to purchase homes, I knew what the clock had struck. A Romanian construction worker z. B. should after only 11 months (!) With a Spanish employment (nouns) are treated as a Spaniard and receive appropriate credits at home or buy a home. (A durchsschnittliche Three-room apartment then cost 150,000 euros).

You need neither imagination nor expertise to be believed that an immigrant couple (usually he worked in construction, she cleaned) can offer no collateral except his labor force. Falls off only the cleaning job, the mortgage can not be controlled. Now, however, both jobs were lost ... (more ...)

Beach event (days Buchau tear)

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Lying on his stomach, I blinked down to the sea on the small sand dune, and I noticed a young woman who had a gaunt, emaciated, but very toned body. The young mother cared especially for the youngest of her four children. Now and then jumped in my limited frame as a little man with a thick diaper package at the hands of the mother from the water into the air. I watched it, like jumping from fishing or fly the gulls.

After a few hours we packed up, and the children ran bravely forth in their white dresses beach behind the nut.

A few minutes later, this peaceful formation abruptly changed. The mother came to the little boy in her arms, the other children behind their continually return to the beach. Sweat ran down her face. She asked with an American accent, "Excuse me has anyone seen a black wallet? I was just at the grocery store, and she was no longer in my backpack. "

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