Saturday, January 19, 2013

Rubbish


My city is full of shit. Like, literally. Thousands of rubbish bags have decided to comfortably take a nap in the streets. Well, more accurately, 2400 tonnes of trash, and the numbers are going up. I have always said that Granada is a very beautiful and charming town, but right now, it is probably the worst looking place in Spain. The thing is, all the "proffesionals of public sanitation" (aka steet sweepers) who work fot the company "Inagra" are on strike. They earn 1200 euros a month and work 35 hours a week, when most of the people with a similar job (like a builder) get paid less than a 1000 euros and work at least 40 hours since the crisis begun. Poor them...

However, if the cleaners of Granada are already privileged workers, their bosses are even more priviledged. They earn more than the very same president of Spain! Can you believe it? All the citizens of Granada are suffering the consecuences of a town that looks like a pigsty because some rich men do not want to do without their expensive Mercedes.

But the same happens in most of the countries, not only in the private sector but also in the public one: If the directives have debts to pay, they just get rid of the bonus of the civil servants or employees and... taraa! Problem solved! Sometimes these moneygrabbers even raise their own salary in this terrible time of crisis. Long live corruption and selfishness! How far is the man willing to go in order to gain more and more power and wealth? Do they not care if other people can't buy their kids a present for Christmas, or if they can't even feed them because of their greed? Power definitely blinds the mind: it always has.

So, I'll go buy a mask and a pesticide or else I won't be able to go to high school on Monday...


                                    

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