Spanish PM Rajoy this week announced a series of drastic measures designed to reduce Spain's deficit.
The prime minister's fourth austerity package in seven months will scrap a tax rebate for home buyers, scale back unemployment benefits, consolidate local governments - helping to cut €3.5bn from local authority budgets - and eliminate the year-end bonus for some public workers.Among the measures are a 3% rise in the VAT (sales tax) to 21% (yes there is a sales tax of 21% on what you buy) and more controversially (if that is possible) the above referenced reduction in unemployment benefits.
In response to the unemployment benefit reductions being announced by Rajoy in the National Assembly a government party lawmaker, Andrea Fabra yelled out "Que se jodan"! My Spanish is not fluent so I will rely on other translations ... which come out as "Screw them all" or "Fuck them" in apparent reference to the unemployed ... and in case you are not keeping track, the unemployment rate in Spain is about 25%.