Re: Else ... Not Getting Shit
  By: MIKE POWELL to ARELOR on Wed Feb 25 2026 08:08 am

 >
 > Sounds like Spanish managers have not got creative or maybe don't have the
 > tight budgets that we do.

I think it is a combination of factors.

First of all, tendency here is to have a French style reaction when the
administration threatens any budget cut and people goes out on the streets and
starts burning things, and budget cuts are extremely impopular so they try
really hard not to do them. They'd rather increase tax presure.

But then, when they do it, affected departments defund the wrong components of
the apparatus.

Say you lower the budget for a public University that is known for throwing
parties and conventions and whatever which aren't stricly necessary. They will
fire administrative personal and sell office machinery rather than stop the
parties and conventions.

So yeah, University gets a budget cut, and some essentials are removed. Maybe
they fire all the Xerox operators and sell all Xerox machines but one so there
is a permanent infinite queue of students trying to use the last machine
standing - meanwhile some wall in a building is falling off. But the head honcho
has his parties and a plasma TV in his office.

I had the idea it was bad but know I am writting it down it reads even worse.


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