Icelandic recipe out of the crisis Yesterday I read an article that got me thinking. It Ignacio Escolar column in the newspaper "public", I think, February 15
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REVOLUTION OF ICELAND
Ignacio Escolar
Now that the people Egypt has succeeded, or at least it seems, is good time to talk of another revolution, much less understood: that of Iceland, that country that the IMF's Rato gave as an example to follow and ended up completely bankrupt, buried by the rubble of a carcinogenic banks that turned the island into a huge hedge fund, leaving a debt equivalent to the entire GDP in eight years and six months. Icelandic
solution that conviction soon departed from orthodoxy. The prosecutor opened a criminal investigation against the bankers responsible for the collapse, some have fled the country and are wanted by the Interpol. In 2009, the government had to resign en bloc, cornered by citizen protests and was the first and almost the only one to fall by the crisis (if we exclude Tunisia and Egypt). After Icelanders forced a referendum to block the payment of bank debt and succeeded, winning the no more than 90% of the vote. And a couple of months ago, Iceland started an ambitious constitutional reform that for the first time in history the world, will depend on a process of direct democracy, regardless of the parties. The Constituent Assembly is made up of 31 ordinary citizens, elected at the polls from 523 nominations needed only 30 signatures to be submitted.
Today Iceland is growing. Next year, the government budget is in surplus, their economic situation is much better than other countries also treeless, like Greece or Ireland. The secret? Something revolutionary, but was supposed to be one of the rules of capitalism ensenciales: Iceland refused to socialize losses and let the banks go into bankruptcy simply irresponsible.
Read this gives me hope and anxiety at the same time. Hope, because I see the fight citizen pays off. Restlessness, because to get a reward you need a constant struggle and united us all into a single objective, and that, although evil in this country of tambourine, barely exists. Still, I'll stick with the good part of speech. Look, fixed they too wanted to fool with the importance of frugality, austerity of the people to be more precise, out of the crisis, but I can not get around and left, now that more voice vote, are free and no crisis hovering over their heads and their pockets. Why not us? Why Why do not we rise? Does this not an example strong enough (and not counting with Tunisia or Egypt)? I think it is time to take a page (s), though perhaps created too. I do not care. If I believe that the solution is not to sit to say "how corrupt politicians are, what shameless bankers, what unions do a bad job" and / or write a post about it (and get into the bag) is my problem. I think it's time to put the cards on the table Awake, Spain, wake up!
The link or a link where you can read the article here
The image is taken from above link
I recommend reading his little book "Les enfants terribles "....... wonderful 
