To all you Libs who keep saying the EU is in Great shape, Step inside.

[Tom Clancy]

For the past couple weeks i've seen people say That Socialism works well in the European Union..

For Example:

Socialism is working quite well in the European Union.

First, I'll be teaching you how the Socialism is working in my home country, Spain.


Spanish Socialist Workers' Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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In Spanish this means, Partido Socialista Obrero Español. Translated, Spanish Socialist Workers Party.

This Party is the one who holds office right now at this moment.

This guy below me named, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is the Spanish Prime Minister.

With that said, I'll be presenting the Facts on how Socialism is ruining my Country.

Let's start with the most important Topic these days.. The Economy.

Employment crisis.

As for the employment, after having completed substantial improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback in October 2008 when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels. During the period October 2007-October 2008 Spain had its unemployment rate climbing 37%, exceeding by far the unemployment surge of past economic crises like 1993. In particular, during the month of October 2008, Spain suffered its worst unemployment rise ever recorded and, so far, the country is suffering Europe's biggest unemployment crisis.


By July 2009, it had shed 1.2 million jobs in one year and was to have the same number of jobless as France and Italy combined. Spain's unemployment rate hit 17.4% at the end of March, with the jobless total now having doubled over the past 12 months, when two million people lost their jobs. In this same month, Spain for the first time in her history had over 4,000,000 people unemployed, an especially shocking figure even for a country which had become used to grim unemployment data.

Although rapidly slowing, large scale immigration continued throughout 2008 despite the severe unemployment crisis, thereby worsening an already grave situation.There are now indications that established immigrants have begun to leave, although many that have are still retaining a household in Spain due to the poor conditions that exist in their country of origin.

In 1996 the Peoples Party, which is the Center-Right Party of Spain. (My Party) was in Power from '96 to '04.

This shows that after the Socialist President, still had the Unemployment Levels low until a couple more years into office when his Practices and Choices affected the Country.


Wondering what the People Party is? People's Party (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'll give you a little Snip on how the Right did when they were in Power.

On 4 September 1989, and at the suggestion of Fraga himself, José María Aznar (then premier of the Autonomous Region of Castile and León) was elected candidate for Spanish prime minister at the general elections. In April 1990, Aznar became chairman of the party. Fraga would later be named Founding Chairman of the People's Party.

The PP was the governing party from 1996 to 2004, led by Prime Minister (Presidente del Gobierno) José María Aznar. The PP won the general elections for the first time in 1996, and José María Aznar became prime minister of the Government with the support of the Basque Nationalist Party, the Catalan CiU party and the Canary Coalition. In the 2000 elections, the PP got an absolute majority.

Economy

Unemployment fell by 19%, a zero level of deficit was achieved, and inflation fell below 2%. GDP grew, taxes were reduced, and public services improved. State-owned companies were privatised: Iberia Airlines, Argentaria, Telefónica, Repsol, Aceralia. Public spending decreased and private healthcare increased.


Political violence

A truce was declared in 1998 where 135 ETA members were sent to prisons in the Basque region. The truce lasted for a few months. Aznar's government began a severe policy of harassing ETA and its environment in all possible political, legal, and social ways.

Domestic

During the Aznar years, compulsory military service was ended, and the Spanish armed forces were reformed to become more professional. The National Hydrological Plan meant that most of the dry areas of the South-East would receive water from elsewhere in Spain. Efforts were also made to combat corruption.

EU

The Partido Popular fiercely defended Spain's agricultural and fishery rights within the EU. Spain joined the Euro zone and signed the Treaty of Nice, under which Spain achieved parity with France and Germany. It strongly opposed EU enlargement.

Foreign Policy

Known to have a strong Atlanticist ideology, the Partido Popular fostered stronger ties to the USA. Rather than getting closer to countries that were harmful to Spanish interests in the EU (France and Germany), Spain preferred to foster stronger relations with the UK. Spain joined the Coalition in the Iraq War. Despite not sending any forces to take part in operations during the war, it sent in peace-keeping troops after the end of the conflict. On 11 July 2002, Morocco invaded the Spanish island of Perejil. After concerted diplomatic efforts to remove Moroccan troops from the island, Spanish troops were sent in and captured all Moroccan soldiers. With the assistance of NATO and of the USA, Spain persuaded Morocco to accept the status quo.

Now that's a Man who knew what to do, he knew how to Fix our Economy, and make Spain one of the Top Countries in the European Union.

Take a CLOSE look at what i Bolded and Underlined.


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In other words, this Proves that many folks on here who keep reading and hearing about how Socialism Works in the Europena Union don't have the Slightest Clue of what's going there.. Of course someone like me who was Born there and Raised for 13 Years knows what's going on..


Thanks for everyone who took the time to read this, -Nick. (Tom Clancy)