Incorrect, but thanks to the freedoms of living in the World's greatest nation, you are free to spout whatever bullshit pops into your head, Franco.The USA IS a socialist country, at least with ACA, although a bought off, pander to the rich GOP mess, thanks to their huge bs propaganda machine and hater dupes like you...Anti-American my ass. Anti GOP greed, lies, and stupidity, yes.Typical Socialist anti-American hate. You should move to a socialist country. You'd be happier.Yup, thanks for the corrupt GOP world depression. Spain doesn't have our natural resources so can't recover with a fracking boom. The lying cheating duping GOP is a disgrace and always has been, although never this bad. I suppose they didn't cause the Great Depression either lol....Awesome, but typical of Euro Socialists. Same old tired anti-capitalist, anti-American bullshit.Booosh, the GOP, and Wall St wrecked the whole world in 2008- Try reality. Countries that had enough money to bail out financial institutions and victims recovered, others not so much. It cost so much, nationalist chaos came too, not like the 30's but not so great either. See Brexit, Putin, Trump...Thank god for Obama and modern democratic socialism. RW BS, not so much.
Meanwhile, Spain's economy is still in the shitter.
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Critics, mainly from the left but also from parts of academia, argue that the country’s recovery is not just incomplete but that the price of austerity and reform was too high. The unemployment rate may have fallen sharply, but at 18.6 per cent it remains far above the pre-crisis level and almost double the eurozone average. Ms Oltra is one of many who bemoans the creation of a new class of “working poor” in Spain. Inequality has increased dramatically and public finances continue to bear the scars of the crisis: Spanish government debt is 100 per cent of GDP, up from 40 per cent before the crisis. The lost decade, and debt accumulated along the way, will weigh heavily on Valencia as well. Almost a quarter of the government’s annual €4bn budget is used to service the region’s vast debt pile. “We are paying for a lot of broken plates,” says Vicent Soler, the regional budget minister since 2015.