España, saqueada por los españoles.

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Financial Times me recuerda otro patético caso de canibalismo carpetovetónico, en Torrevieja.

… el de una costosa maravilla técnica (300 millones de euros), pagada por los contribuyentes españoles y europeos, concebida con muy altos fines filantrópicos (producir agua potable, desalinizando el agua del mar), condenada a convertirse, quizá, en un monstruo inservible, víctima del costo del agua desalinizada, los riesgos ecológicos [Destrucción a toda costa], y, Sobre Todo, el más tradicional canibalismo político, izquierda / derecha, Estado / comunidades autónomas / municipios, que don Antonio Machado describió de manera canónica:

El hombre de estos campos que incendia los pinares
y su despojo aguarda como botín de guerra.

Financial Times:

Engineers and officials agree it is a modern wonder, a “marvellous plant” in the words of one construction manager, “beautiful” says an equipment manufacturer.
The award-winning €300m ($438m) desalination plant at Torrevieja on Spain’s arid south-east coast is Europe’s largest facility for converting seawater into fresh, and the second biggest in the world.
Finished last year, the plant is idle, however, and likely to be so for at least another 18 months. Neither the pipes to the sea nor the power transmission lines have been approved or built. Even if it does begin to process seawater, the product may be so expensive nobody wants to buy it.
“It is absurd to make this kind of multimillion-euro investment,” says Javier Montoro, councillor for infrastructure in Torrevieja municipality. “We doubt that this water will be priced at a level at which it can be sold.”
Financed with Spanish taxpayers’ money and €55m of European Union regional development funds, the Torrevieja plant has been challenged on environmental and financial grounds repeatedly.

[ .. ] The idle plant also risks becoming another example – like the €1bn empty airport at Ciudad Real in central Spain – of the dangers of a highly devolved political system where power is shared between the state, 17 regions and more than 8,000 municipalities. [ .. ] [Financial Times, 26 abril 2011. Victor Mallet, Spain’s desalination dreams run dry].

Las negritas son mías.

Con un solo gráfico, FT nos recuerda la catastrófica estructura del gasto público:

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FT,26abril2011. Spain’s desalination dreams run dry. Estado y gobierno(s) nos hacen más pobres y menos libres, 2.

• España, saqueada por los españoles, 2.